Icarus: In progress.

August 12th, 2010

1st colour oil sketch.

Detail of face.

Small greyscale oil sketch.

Before glazing.

© Adam R. Grose, 2010.

Reflections Issue Six

August 12th, 2010

Issue six of Reflections magazine is now available to purchase.  Full of prose, poetry and art from a variety of writers and artists sharing their perspective on the world around us.  You can purchase from a variety of stores in Exeter or order online right here.

Reflections – Issue Six – Pencils

© Adam R. Grose, 2010.

The Sleepless Phoenix rises from a sleeping Insomniac.

August 12th, 2010

As a fellow contributor to the Layer Zero series of books published by Insomnia Publications and artist to draw Conway by Sean Michael Wilson, now on hold, I was shocked to learn that Insomnia Publications had ‘ceased trading’. It seems the ‘team spirit’ was forgotton by the publisher.  We were not told prior to Insomnia ceasing trading.

Writers, artists, letterers, editors, friends and family members involved in these tales of wonder didn’t forget. We all knew we were part of a team; part of something bigger.

As a team we decided to rise up and continue to strive for the publication of our anthology.  And who knows?  We might witness the rise of a new way of publishing thanks to Kickstarter.  Here is your chance to become part of something big, something you can say you had a part in, pledging and helping to get these various stories from the imagination out there for others to enjoy.

HMP Temeraire: Childhood Survival (1/8)

The Sleepless Phoenix is an anthology consisting of 192 pages.  These short stories are written and drawn by a variety of writers and artists, showcasing talent around today in the independent comic publishing scene.  Some are written by teams, some individual.  All bring about their vision of what ’survival’ means to them.

HMP Temeraire: Childhood Survival (2/8)

This project reveals the diverse nature of the written imagination, of sequential art and illustrative art.  With the success of the last books under Layer Zero, these gained an excellent reputation.  The book will be published once pledges have been made to secure the necessary funding to print the book digitally and real-world.

Hansel & Grethel – © Adam R. Grose, 2010.

Over at the Kickstarter site you will be able to chose from a wide variety of pledges, ranging from a donation of $1 right up to $75 and the chance to get original prints from the book, actual artwork and signed copies of the book. I expect you will get to choose which artist you want etc… so very open indeed.
If you would like to get involved and/ or spread the word to those you know who likes reading fresh work and looking at sequential/ comic art and illustration, then the link below will forward you on. Please read through the various options available and if you can pledge, thank you. If you can’t spread the word through your friends, blogs, networks and websites. Whichever way you can help to see this book published, a big warm thank you from me and from my fellow sleepless fellows.

Click the widget above to pledge.

All profits from Survival Stories will go to the Comic Book Alliance to help them in their efforts to safeguard the rights of comics creators.

New Paintings: War Series

June 12th, 2010
Andromeda Lost (Study)

Andromeda Lost (Study)

I’m currently working on a range of images based on war, myth and legends from around the Middle East.  The last ten years has seen great shake ups in the area we call the Middle East. Through my research I have come to the conclusion that what is happening has its resonances from the Sumerian Age, 6000 years ago.

Through the Babylonians, Sumerians, Persians (Iran), Greece, Israel, Lebanon, Syria, Afganistan, Iraq; all of these countries have born various myths and legends involving gods, wars, control, domination, which continues today.  The Clash of Civilisations, or another way of calling it, ‘The Clash of the Titans’.

I am trying to convey feeling through these images, through line, tone, colour, brushmarks, and though I find these images upsetting, my horror at what one human being can do to another, in the name of religion, politics for the control of resources, leaving communities split, devastated, ruined and in some cases in modern times, nearly extingished from the face of the Earth.

How long can we continue to deny the reality that we are all one consciousness and therefore by hurting another, we ultimately hurt ourselves.  I think it is time to wake up, get off our knees and realise life is precious to all.  Just because we have the power to do harm, it doesn’t mean we have the right to do so.

Freedom and Confinement

March 6th, 2010

An exhibition of paintings and sculpture by Bryanston School and HM YOI Portland.

This exhibition explores the ideas of ‘freedom and confinement’ from the perspectives of the young men at Portland YOI and sixth form students at Bryanston School in Dorset.

The exhibition contains a number of personal representations of what freedom and confinement mean to the individual artists as well as a number of collaborative pieces produced in recent workshops held at Portland YOI.

This exhibition is curated by Adam R. Grose & Dr. Hannah Fearnley.

In Conversation with Chuck Close

February 15th, 2010

This site is a wonderful resource for a variety of subjects, recorded as conversations, lectures and discourses. Here’s a conversation with Chuck Close, one of the greats of our time in the world of art.

http://fora.tv/2009/07/01/In_Conversation_with_Chuck_Close

BBC Archives: Francis Bacon 1966

February 15th, 2010

http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/bacon/5401.shtml

Lecture on Asian/ American Modern Art

February 15th, 2010

An interesting insight into new Asian American Art.

http://fora.tv/2008/10/25/AsianAmericanModern_Art_Artists_Scholars_Panel

Women Artists

February 14th, 2010

I sometimes wonder why women have never got the exposure they so deserve for the Art they create; then i came across this lecture. An in-depth analysis on Art created by women. A fascinating discourse worth checking out.

http://fora.tv/2007/10/10/Women_Who_Transformed_Contemporary_Art

Reflections Issue Four – Out Now.

February 2nd, 2010

The new issue of ‘Reflections’ is now available!

The Winter 2010 edition features a fab colour cover by graphic novelist Adam Grose, who also gives us a graphic short story inside the magazine.

There’s fiction by Ben Tallamy, Laura Quigley and Matthew Banks, and poetry by Juliet Warry, Steve Smith, Matt Ashford, Matthew Turner, Ruth Butler and Carly Lightfoot, plus artwork by Emma-Jane Lewis.

‘Reflections’ is on sale in Exeter at Martian Records and Electric Gypsy for the price of £4.00, and by mail order from me at £4.50- email me for details. Or I’m sure I can be found in town at some point with a couple of copies in my pocket!

If you get a copy from Martian or Gypsy could you let me know so I know when to restock them- also all feedback is welcomed.

Contact me (Steve Smith) at http://www.exeterrelfections.co.uk