wayne roberts F11

Earth

2011-05-20T16:35:00.000+10:00

Piano

2011-04-26T17:32:00.004+10:00

watercolour on Bockingford CP, 10cm x 10cm, 4/2011

Cellular membrane - colour modulations

2011-04-21T14:26:00.001+10:00

A visual poem Animated GIF digital composition (detail) full size 564px x 376px © 1998-2011 Wayne Roberts. This animated GIF computer image i made around '98. It's a slightly larger version of the same image as on my www.wroberts.com.au website's poetry page. I decided to post it here because it relates to the Equinox collage painting's compositional rationale (see below), and gives a feel

Equinox

2011-03-26T02:00:00.091+11:00

Equinox, paper collage on hardboard, 91cm x 130cm © 2010-2011 w roberts In 2003 I painted two separate 'VP's (see below post, Varignon Parallelograms) on unframed irregularly-shaped quadrilateral canvases. More recently I had the idea of composing a picture consisting of many interconnected and interrelated Varignon Parallelograms. That's what you see here. There was infinite scope to

Varignon Parallelograms

2011-03-26T01:52:00.031+11:00

Here's a small vector diagram I made to illustrate Varignon parallelograms (paler blue central quadrilateral in image). [I posted this because it relates to the Equinox comp above.] It demonstrates a fascinating connection between regular and irregular 4-sided shapes (proved by Varignon in 1731, and known as Varignon parallelograms). Essentially his theorem states that you can draw up any

2010-05-30T00:07:00.017+10:00

Photo and graphic, 2010Nature knows nothing about compromise, it accepts all difficulties not as difficulties as such but rather as new factors that configure a totality.~Jørn Utzon, architect of the Sydney Opera House

Beethoven painting + link to larger images

2009-11-14T21:06:00.009+11:00

Here's a link to my art website www.wroberts.com.au showing the recent LVB9 painting/installation. The images are larger and sharper.It's kind of a curious synchronicity, that the painting (LVB9) and the movie In Search of Beethoven were composed/released within months of each other. The artwork LVB9 was completed approx 4-6 months beforehand, and i had no idea a major film about Beethoven was

LVB9 - installation artwork, music-inpired: now on main website

2009-10-27T09:42:00.010+11:00

© 2009 Wayne Roberts. All rights reserved. (detail view above)This work is now on my main art website. Text consists mainly of extracts from my blog, here. Shown above is a close-up view of part of the CD-collage section of the painting.

The Pacific

2009-10-23T11:02:00.003+11:00

Photograph © copyright Wayne Roberts, Canberra AustraliaMid-south coast, NSW, Australia.

Indian motif, Hamilton NZ

2009-10-20T15:21:00.012+11:00

The Lifeboat

2009-10-13T15:57:00.009+11:00

56cm x 76cm, 300gsm Lanaquarelle cold-pressed paper © Wayne RobertsWinner of the 1996 Paul Schwartz Memorial Award, American Watercolor Society, New YorkI decided to show this transparent full-sheet watercolor here on my blog for several reasons. 1) It seemed to resonate with the spirit of LVB9 (see artwork several posts below)2) Every so often artists produce works they almost "recognise", like

Cantaloupe Island

2009-10-12T09:35:00.019+11:00

See/hear a classic of Jazz Fusion (on YouTube) Herbie Hancock, Pat Metheny, Dave Holland , Jack DeJohnette. Crank it up, and click HQ button lower right-hand corner for better sound qual.

For artwork LVB9, please refer to posts below "Waterlilies, Centuries"

2009-10-09T15:16:00.009+11:00

LVB9 is a large multimedia installation artwork (see LVB9 posts below) inspired by Beethoven's 9th symphony. [More commentary is below each image (please scroll downwards). Further new work should be posted soon..

Waterlilies, centuries

2009-09-25T11:48:00.004+10:00

LVB9 - 9th >< 10th Symphony

2009-09-25T09:09:00.006+10:00

LVB9 (inspired by Beethoven's 9th symphony, Op 125)Mixed media on two doors and black stretched woollen textilewith internal lighting, sound-responsive LEDs, & CD-collageSee several posts below for view of entire workThis post briefly discusses CD collage arrangementBeethoven's Ninth symphony was so influential upon many later composers that some even feared nearing their own ninth symphonies.

LVB9 - CDs in equilateral triangular arrangement (WIP)

2009-09-25T08:40:00.005+10:00

LVB9 (see several posts below for full view of final artwork)Inspired by the 9th symphony of Ludwig van BeethovenThe CDs (shown here in WIP-view 1) show a 3x3 (spatial) grid/tessellation of CDs formed by a total of 10 CDs.This I decided to position in the top R-hand corner of the R-panel.The blog post above presents some interesting history surrounding the number "9". [These CDs were later '

LVB9 (CD collage, detail, region 2)

2009-09-23T23:05:00.004+10:00

LVB9 - CD collage (detail) from top right corner of right-hand door panel(see 2 posts below for view of entire installation)Inspired by the 9th symphony of Beethoven

"LVB9" (close-ups of CD collage area)

2009-09-23T17:06:00.007+10:00

LVB9 (close-ups of CD collage area) R-upper, R-door panel.See Post below for entire LVB9 work & commentary.Inspired by Beethoven's 9th symphony

LVB9

2009-09-23T10:44:00.009+10:00

LVB9 © 2009 Wayne Roberts, 242 cm (w) x 204 cm (h) x 172 cm (d)3-D work on two doors and black woollen stretched textile.Two Doors: Mixed media: CD-collage, oxides, detritus, mixed aqueous paints, acrylic media, water, inks, applied with aged implements. Intaglio lineation. Black woollen textile on stretcher frame with titanium, internal lighting.10 CDs in triangular formation (top right). This

Mystery of music

2009-09-22T15:27:00.011+10:00

Alps at Kaikoura, NZ

2009-03-09T20:43:00.005+11:00

watercolour on Arches 850 gsm rough, 47cm x 75.5cmKaikoura is a magnificent place on the east coast of the South Island of New Zealand. Here, high mountains 'loom over' the sea, and eco-tourists flock to the Kaikoura peninsula for whale watching. In this place, i found two of my favourite landscape subjects: mountains and sea. This is the first watercolour, just completed, based very loosely on a

Albatross

2009-03-08T09:12:00.004+11:00

acrylic on canvas, 60.8cm x 30cm, 3-2009These sea-birds have the largest wingspan of any bird on Earth.I clearly remember, as a kid, watching them following our ship across the entire Indian Ocean (en route from Australia to Italy, via the Cape of Good Hope). [Albatrosses soar mainly in the Southern Ocean, and also North Pacific.] These amazing birds just seem to 'lean on the air',

Pelicans

2009-02-16T18:57:00.011+11:00

Pelicansseagulls squawk in the near distance,wind gusts blow bursts of static in my earspelicans catch my eyes..such big-billed birdsbeautiful. i wait for their song too..but there was no song , and the wind in my ears now suddenly seemed like music, accompanying theirs.how the pelicans fly, glide!

Earth Circle, 2

2009-02-11T14:39:00.001+11:00

Charcoal on two overlapping sheets, HP paper58 x 63cm, © February 2009, Wayne Roberts.. an imperfect rendering of an *ideal*Link to Red Cross .

Earth Circle

2009-01-03T02:44:00.002+11:00

A music-art comp i just completed (3rd movt of a brief 4-movt orchestral suite).. plus a few paintings included from over the years...

Blues Brothers in Chicago

2008-10-30T10:08:00.001+11:00

Oxides, acrylic paint, with intaglio lineation on canvas on board, 60cm x 120cm, unframed. © circa 2002-3 W Roberts. Inspired by the original eighties Blues Brothers movie.

Painting - The World of Ray Charles

2008-10-24T16:17:00.000+11:00

Inspired by Ray Charles : the music and the man. Acrylic (titanium, black and gold) painted with the hands and scumbled brush on gauze-collage on loosely stretched unframed canvas. 102cm x 76cm. © 2008 W Roberts

Reg Roberts - artist - my father

2008-10-24T08:03:00.000+11:00

Here's an oil study of Gippsland, Australia by my father (artist's collection, circa early 1950's, oil on canvas, 40.6cm x 50.8cm).This painting was an inspiration to me my brother and two sisters. My parents gave most of their paintings from those years to friends while my father was studying for his PhD. He was a CSIRO scientist (grassland insect ecologist), always had an eye for patterns, an

Watercolour brush

2008-10-18T16:43:00.000+11:00

This brush has travelled a very long way through water, with watercolour, on watercolour paper.Winsor & Newton Series 7.Photographed here resting on my studio palette. One of my oldest brushes.with Cerulean blue

Judith Roberts - artist - my mother

2008-10-17T20:46:00.000+11:00

This is a 1954 oil painting of my mother's. Logger's Trail (the Rockies). I thought it needed to be seen by a wider audience. You can see I'm not the only one of my family (all of whom are artists) who's inspired by mountains. I hope to post an oil of my father's of the Gippsland region in Australia from around the same time .. so keep an eye out for that one.. cheers~W

Alps near Briancon

2008-10-05T10:15:00.000+11:00

Transparent watercolour on Arches 640gsm cold-pressed paper. © W Roberts.This work was inspired by the Hungarian/American watercolorist Ted Kautzsky. See 'mountains in watercolour' web page for further info and mountains in watercolour.

Resonances in a seaside rock pool

2008-10-03T14:49:00.000+10:00

There is a small rockpool near Murramarang on the NSW south coastResonance 1: Fleming's discovery of the Penicillium mould's ability to inhibit the growth of bacteria in the vicinity of the mould. Resonance 2 'Earth from space' (islands, the pool's circle becomes the arc of Earth's oceans)Resonance 3 "The Starry Night" (stars, nebulae, and constellations).© 2005-2008 W Roberts

National Museum of Australia

2008-10-01T10:39:00.000+10:00

Linda and I visited the NMA last weekend. Fantastic exhibition there by Emily Kame Kngwarreye (1910-1996), one of Australia's preeminent contemporary artists. An inspiration and a revelation. If you have time it's worth checking the link to see the massive Big Yam Dreaming painting, amongst her most celebrated works. There's a new page of my photographic images of the NMA on my website. The

F11

2008-09-27T15:06:00.000+10:00

Hello, welcome... and sincere thanks to my friend Nick Simmons who, as many of you know, is an extraordinary artist/musician/thinker and who encouraged me to kick-off a blog.The F11 concept plugs into the idea that through a blog a bigger more dynamic and interactive picture is possible than via my website. Hopefully you will be motivated/inspired to interact/comment, link to this blog, tap an