Ed Buziak / Artist
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Ed Buziak / Artist
@artbuzz.bsky.social
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
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
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.
February 20, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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.
February 8, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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
February 1, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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
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
January 26, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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
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
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
January 16, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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
January 14, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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
January 4, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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
January 2, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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
December 31, 2024 at 1:20 PM
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
December 4, 2024 at 10:14 AM
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
December 3, 2024 at 3:35 PM
"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
November 20, 2024 at 8:32 PM
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
November 18, 2024 at 9:08 AM
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.
November 16, 2024 at 9:17 PM
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
November 16, 2024 at 4:32 PM
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
November 16, 2024 at 10:21 AM
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
November 15, 2024 at 5:13 PM
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
November 15, 2024 at 1:49 PM
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.
November 15, 2024 at 11:38 AM
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
November 14, 2024 at 3:38 PM
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
November 13, 2024 at 6:32 PM