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Ed Buziak / Artist
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Abstract artist, stock photographer, occasional writer… plant-based… fixie rider… ‘60s art student (if you can remember the ‘60s).

My main photography account is @buzzed44.bsky.social
Plus a new page for Postal History @postalhistory.bsky.social
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Viewed this extraordinary Panton work last August at Beaubourg... thought I'd post an image with a person (child) included to give some scale to the piece.
March 6, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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Just found an old b/w print from 1980 that was included in the BBC book of Bobbie Cox in her Devon workshop spinning yarn from raw wool.
A black and white photo of the weaver Bobbie Cox (1930-2018) spinning yarn from carded wool in her workshop studio in her Devon long-house. She is surrounded by wool carded from fleeces, her right arm outstretched and holding a ball of yarn made by the spinning apparatus in the lower right of the photo. The photo was taken in 1980 for the BBC Publications book "The Craft of the Weaver" written by Ann Sutton and others.
February 20, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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By chance I was at a local market in Preuilly-sur-Claise this morning a saw one of several notice boards recently erected around the town in praise and in memory of Jean Dufy who lived in the village of Boussay some 5 kms distant.
A public notice board in a local market place describing the life of noted artist Jean Dufy - brother of the more famous artist Raoul Dufy - who lived in a nearby village of Boussay in the sud-Touraine region of central France. The board shows a monochrome photograph of Dufy sketching as well as three full-colour illustrations of his artwork.
February 8, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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I don't often express myself with "en plein air" artwork although on three occasions I did try at friend's garden table with my bits and pieces to create a pencil drawing, a water-colour and a collage of a group of buildings in a local town.

#Art #Artwork #Drawing #Watercolour #Collage #EnPleinAir
A pencil drawing of a group of buildings; one with a tall pointed roof. There are the branch outlines of two trees - leafless in the Spring, and a telephone pole in the center. The nearest building is a garden shed constructed from stone blocks and with a door visible. A water-colour painting of a group of buildings; one with a tall pointed roof. The two trees to the left of center are still leafless. The buildings are a soft terracotta colour revealing the stonework of the region. and the roofs are grey indicating slates. A collage artwork of a group of buildings; one with a tall pointed roof. All of the buildings seen in the previous examples are now rendered with cut-out pieces of old faded French newspapers and various legal documents with neat handwriting. The blue sky is a water-colour wash, and the trees have been drawn with a soft grade lead pencil.
February 1, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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This huge exhibition changed how I looked at and thought about art... 'modern' became my thing and I have remained that way for the past sixty years. I even used Letraset to add my name and date of visit in a more 'brut' style than my hand-writing.

#ModernArt #TateGallery #London
January 27, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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An untitled piece of mixed-media collage - one of a series - using a page torn from an old Spanish language technical text-book overlaid with strips of an old French newspaper plus additional black crayon and red acrylic paintwork.

#Art #Artwork #Collage #Newsprint #Acrylic #Crayon #EdBuziak
A mixed-media - collage, crayon and acrylic paint - created on a page from an old Spanish language text-book. The squared grid pattern was 'discovered' by rubbing crayon lightly on the paper on top of a well-used cutting mat with 1cm squares. The red paint was scraped across the surface using a small piece of cardboard with a roughly torn edge; and the cross piece of collage was from an old faded French newspaper with black crayon and red paint applied brefore-hand.
January 26, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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Bravo for this 'pushing the boundaries' technique!

I viewed this piece by the Parisian artist Tanc in Brussels in 2019 where he had sprayed a paper medium very gradually, then torn the piece horizontally and reglued it. The very fine white edge of the paper tear became the land/seascape horizon.
January 25, 2025 at 7:15 AM
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This graphic has been posted a number of times in the past few months by different people and explains the process quite simply.

I sometimes see just a photographer's name and a © symbol which is absolutely not what alt.text is for, but I back-off informing them of their misuse... people get arsy!
January 24, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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Art books on my shelves No.014...

"Sean Scully - Metal" a French/English 80-page exhibition catalogue from the Galerie Lelong in Paris. Many writers and critics talk about Scully's art, but you really have to stand in front of it!

#Books #BookSky #ArtBook #ArtBookShelf #Artist #SeanScully #Irish
Front cover and artwork of of the hardback catalogue of artworks by Irish artist Sean Scully at the Galerie Lelong in Paris in late 2016. Double-page spread from the exhibition catalogue of the show titled "Metal" by Irish artist Sean Scully. The left page illustrates a close-up of the broad expressive brushstrokes typical of the artist. On the right an English translation of the introduction by Daniel Abadie for the Galerie Lelong. Double-page spread from the exhibition catalogue of the show titled "Metal" by Irish artist Sean Scully whilch illustrates a large artwork 279 x 677 cm / 110 x 266 inches titled "Passage" painted in 2016.
January 16, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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I do a lot of collage work in notebooks, but not photo collage. Here, for example, I've drawn diagonal stripes on broad masking tape lightly stuck to a sheet of corrugated cardboard, so by drawing marker pens across the corrugated surface a 'jerky' line is created.

#Art #Artwork #MarkerPen #Collage
An opened square-ruled notebook with various striped paper and tapes coloured with marker pen stripes stuck down in an abstract composition. The notebook is on top of a piece of corrugated cardboard which has broad strips of masking tape attached and on which diagonal lines have been drawn with red and blue marker pens using a mixture of broad and fine pen tips.
January 14, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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I still have this 12 x 18 inch pen and ink drawing in my portfolio made 'en plein air' on a cold, windy platform on Piccadilly Station when I was about 18. I think it was 1962 so I'd just started my arts course at the Regional College of Art, Manchester.

#Art #Drawing #PenAndInk #UrbanSketchbook
A pen and ink drawing made 'en plein air' on the cold, windy platform of Piccadilly Station when I was about 18... so in 1962. I had just started my art course at the Regional College of Art, Manchester - later Manchester College of Art... now the Manchester College of Arts and Technology (or for short MANCAT) - and I remember we had one morning every week for outdoor sketching.
January 4, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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I keep this bunch of very thick, real pencils on my studio worktop and often wonder how they were made... from real tree branches, or carved to look like tree branches afterward. I found them in a local French junk shop, but were they made in France?

#PencilChronicles #Pencils #ArtMaterials #Trees
A group of nine pencils held together with a thin piece of pliable strip-wood. The pencils are very thick and look as if they are real tree branches... they may be but I cannot see how the black leads were inserted. Perhaps they were made traditionally using two half pieces of softwood which was then cleverly carved to look like tree bark?
January 2, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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At the Halle Saint-Pierre museum in Montmartre, Paris, I liked this colorful assemblage of nine drawings in ink and felt-tip pen on carton and record sleeves of "Batman" by the American 'Outsider Art' artist Jon Sarkin (1953-2024).

#Artwork #Painting #Drawing #Batman #OutsiderArt #JonSarkin #iPhone
A series of nine drawings featuring the film and comic character Batman created by Jon Sarkin, an American artist who created elaborate drawings and paintings filled with words and images, among other artistic endeavors.
December 31, 2024 at 1:20 PM
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A simple drawing exercise which has started to - perhaps has - already become a finished piece. Often being fully absorbed in artwork overcomes any thoughts on whether to stop, or carry on. On reflection, though, I feel this piece is finished.

#Art #Drawing #Pencil #Graphic #Geometric #Abstract
A drawing with different grades - hard to soft - of pencil lines drawn with a straight edge guide, all criss-crossing at various angles, before a few strokes of red and orange paint were added with a fairly dry brush.
December 4, 2024 at 10:14 AM
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Part of my studio with a painting lmost finished... during the period of progress the paper was turned upside-down so the original crayon guide marks (lower image) don't correspond to the artwork's final composition.

#Art #Artwork #Painting #Abstract #Acrylic #Studio #WassilyChair #Bauhaus #iPhone
A similar image to the first but taken about one week later with the pinned artwork nearing completion. During the creative painting process it has been turned upside-down and now shows very abstract brush-strokes of reds, blues and white on the original black background primer… the visual impression or interpretation being of a volcano erupting, of flames gushing from a vent perhaps with blue water and white steam.
December 3, 2024 at 3:35 PM
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"La Fresque des Géants" fresco was painted on a 10-meter concrete wall in Nantes, Loire-Atlantique, western France, by the artist David Bartex, and represents more than a hundred iconic figures from the history of the City.

#Art #Painting #Mural #StreetArt #Nantes #France #LoireAtlantique #Nikon
A large wall, partly broken at the near end where half an archway remains, the entire wall face covered with hundreds of people with many depicted in medieval clothes or costume. At the top of the mural is a seascape and to the right a fortress depicting Nantes on the Loire in France.
November 20, 2024 at 8:32 PM
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With "Organic State (Sperm Count) #2" I am trying to express the slow movement of organic forms intermingling with each other. Are they reaching downwards in search of an unseen connection… or are they swimming upwards like sperms?

#Art #Painting #Acrylic #Abstract #SaatchiArt
With this ‘dribble’ painting I have used a fully-charged brush of slightly watered-down (between milk and single cream in consistency) acrylic paint on a 45° sloping sheet of heavy, smooth Arches Platine cold-pressed, hand-made watercolour paper 76 x 56 cms (30 x 22 inches) in size. For this piece of artwork in the on-going series I have used a ‘cold’ blue, black and white palette of colours in trying to express the slow movement of organic forms intermingling with each other, sometimes blending or fusing, but in the main reaching downwards in search of an unseen connection… or are they swimming upwards like sperms?
November 18, 2024 at 9:08 AM
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If interested in learning more about the artist and her contemporaries, including of course Ben Nicholson her second husband, I recommend Eleanor Clayton's "Barbara Hepworth - Art & Life" published by Thames & Hudson in 2021 at £25 UK. I bought and read it last month and it's an excellent biography.
Illustrated dust-jacket for a biographical book about the sculptor Barbara Hepworth illustrated with a blue-tinted monochrome photograph of her face and hand holding one of the multiple crossed strings connecting the edges of a sculpture.
November 16, 2024 at 9:17 PM
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In 2019 at the 5th showing of 'Art on Paper' at BOZAR in Brussels I was very impressed by the large, dark, powerful, monochromatic watercolours by Sigrid Tanghe (127tangsi on Instagram), this example titled "After Stones".

#Art #Watercolour #Abstract #Monochrome #ArtOnPaper #SigridTanghe
An abstract, dark, monochromatic, watercolour painting of angular solid shapes resembling cut blocks of stone.
November 16, 2024 at 4:32 PM
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From the "Women in Abstraction" exhibition in 2021 at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, this artwork by Russian artist Lioubov Popova's "Architectonique picturale" painted in 1917 really caught my attention since I'm more of a 'geometric' abstract artist.

#Art #Painting #Abstract #Russian #Popova
A framed abstract painting showing several geometric shapes in white, black, red and pink in the Russian avant-garde Constructivist style.
November 16, 2024 at 10:21 AM
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Sennelier's extra-fine Soft Pastels have been made by hand since 1900. They are water-soluble and have unparalleled pigment intensity. They are 100% pigment, light-fast and hold color for centuries. Degas used Sennelier soft pastels for many of his drawings.

#Art #Pastel #Crayon #Sennelier #France
An art shop display of Sennelier soft pastels in many colours from purples at the top, descending to reds, browns, yellows, greens and blacks. This is just half of their extensive range.
November 15, 2024 at 5:13 PM
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I often have scraps of coloured cartridge paper left over from other projects... so by cutting them into narrow strips of varying widths I can use them as a woven collage. The combinations are endless and of course types of paper media similarly unlimited.

#Art #Paper #Abstract #Weaving
A piece of artwork made from interlaced strips of coloured papers of varying widths. They have been woven together, similar to warp and weft on a weaving loom, the colours being chosen randomly for the abstract effect.
November 15, 2024 at 1:49 PM
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So many to choose from, but a firm favourite is Ben Nicholson's "Au Chat Botté" which I used to view a couple of times a week in the Manchester City Art Gallery back in the '70s... still have the postcard I bought on my first visit there.
My hand holding a postcard of an artwork by Ben Nicholson titled "Au Chat Botté" in front of a computer screen with the same artwork on the screen.
November 15, 2024 at 11:38 AM
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A modern 4-meter tall sculpture titled "The Man of Atlantis" created in 2003 by Belgian artist Luk Van Soom and located on the René Cliquet roundabout of the Waterloo Boulevard in front of the Brussels Apple store.

#Art #Sculpture #LukVanSoom #Brussels
A tall standing modern sculpture of a green man - The Man from Atlantis - with heavily ribbed, sculpted body, arms and legs, standing on one leg on a rounded plinth on a city boulevard roundabout surrounded by tall apartment and office buildings. There are three fountains gushing water at the bottom of the image.
November 14, 2024 at 3:38 PM
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Difficult to photograph under glass in a restaurant but this print by Canadian Inuk artist Jessie Oonark (1906-1985) was worth viewing and to learn more about the artist. This commercial poster is of her original 1984 artwork "My Hands Are Like Birds".

#Art #Print #Canada #Inuk #Inuit #JessieOonark
A framed poster print of two birds in the upper half, brick red and Royal blue, their outstretched wings drawn to look like the fingers of a hand. Below are representations of two figures their bodies looking like hands, each with two legs and feet plus a head and face protruding from he 'hand' body. The artwork was by Jessie Oonark, a Canadian Inuit and the poster was produced by the Canadian Museum of Civilization.
November 13, 2024 at 6:32 PM