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Musings on visual art, contemporary themes and my personal practice

[marywedwards]

Totem and Taboo Inks, paper cutout 2022 Processional heads #masked #prisoner #warrior #trojan #archaic #darktimes #emblem #symbolic #conflict #ceremonial #freud #negatives #positives #talkingheads #newcontemporaryart #ukrainewar #artberlincontemporary 📚Troy by Stephen Fry (at War Zone) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cmy4DZHIpyg/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Totem Ink, paper cutout 2022 Processional head #masked #prisoner #warrior #trojan #archaic #darktimes #emblem #newcontemporaryart #artcurator 📚At night all blood is black by David Diop (at War Zone) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cmwr7p0oi6X/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Rainbow Warrior Gouache, A2 paper 2022 Pray for the Future #climatechange #chroma #greenpeace #fightforfuture #global #crises #questing #hallowed #oceanspirit #transcendence #expressiveart #artgalleries #curatorcall (at Ocean Spray) https://www.instagram.com/p/CmJ4WPiosSj/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Clowned! Happy Halloween 🎃 Charcoal, chalk A2 paper Huge thanks @sugarmagnohlia what great make up! And @candidartstrust: #drinkanddraw #upclose #personal #scarymakeup #archetype #darkclown #portrait #whiteout #livedrawing #disturbing #distorted #kabuki #hallowed #darktimes #tearsofaclown #facialfeatures (at Circus) https://www.instagram.com/p/CkWLG77ofgq/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[marywedwards]

Presences Triptych part 1 Acrylic on canvas 2020 During the bright sunshine on lockdowns 2020 I was fascinated by Cy Twombley’s flower paintings :their beauty, rawness and amalgam of words, colour, suggestions singing in harmony… #presence #permission #(im)punity #privacy #abstracted #abstractfigurative #colourist #tonalvalues #summerflower #triptych #contemporaryart #irises #japanesepainting #artroma #artbarcelona #artamsterdam #artmiami #artvienna (at Garden of Eden) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cg4LLDpoI_e/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[marywedwards]

Missing pieces: missing person 🛑Urgent alert: Lovely @benjaminandreasartist has been missing since 22 July. Please see @candidartstrust for full details Charcoal on A2 paper 2022 #contactimprovisation #improvisation #missingperson #missingout #comebacksoon #makingcontact #newcontemporary #contemporary #newdrawing makingmarks #negativespace #explorations https://www.instagram.com/p/CgjSOSUDLm-/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Knocked out! Boxing hares So shocked lovely @benjaminandreasartist , boxer and talented artist has gone missing since 22July. Please see @candidartstrust for full info…. Acrylic on canvas A1 size From my archives 🖤💔 #pugilist #boxers #knockedout #shocked #combat #urgency #missingperson #fighton #tesilience #newcontemporary (at In The Ring) https://www.instagram.com/p/CgjMMbijcn1/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[marywedwards]

Mutilated : broken faces Influenced by Henry Tonks pioneering artist and surgeon drawing facial disfigurement ww1 Pen and crayons A4 paper #alwaysukraine #phrenology #cranium #skull #warwounds #scarred #portraiture #drawinglife #combat #laguerre #profileportrait #outsiderart #brotherinarms #artberlin #artprague #artvienna #rawart #artbrut #expressive Honouring Les Muriel’s de la grand guerre world war 1 (at Ukraine) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cgcj_7DrNcP/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[marywedwards]

“Karma Chameleon 🔴🟡🟢🎶Culture Club Pencil, conte on A5paper 2022 🙏🏻exuberant @modbodadrian #punkhair #wormseyeview #abstractportrait #effervescent #irrepressible #vitalité #gaylondoner #fated #feted #cockney #rebel #contemporaryart #linedrawing #abstracted #lifedrawinglondon #outthere #artberlin #artlondon Influenced by Hans Belmer (at London) https://www.instagram.com/p/CfrBJAGoHaI/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[marywedwards]

“Glad to be Gay” 🎵Tom Robinson band 🏳️‍🌈 Celebrating Pride in London 2022 : 50th anniversary with flamboyant @modbodadrian Pencil, conte on paper A4 #contemporarydrawing #fragmentation #distortion #exaggerated #frank #nofears #linedrawing #pencilart #continuouslinedrawing #portrayal #outsiders #rawart #artbrut #artberlin #artcopenghagen #artamsterdam #artlondon (at London Borough of Islington) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cfha1FsrLhw/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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💙Kind of blue 🎶Miles David Always something lyrical in these poses 🙏🏻 @fromtheliferoom🥀 Acrylic paint on paper 2022 #inspiringmodel ##casual #relaxedpose #simplicity #portraiture #momentintime #jazzed #rhythm #rhythmic #reflective #lifemodel #maleform #rawart #outsiderartist #artberlin #headandshoulders #artamsterdam #moodboards #artlondon #observationaldrawing #gesturedrawing #newcontemporaryart (at London Borough of Islington) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cdl9O9oI8vh/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[marywedwards]

🐝 Beeswing “She was a rare thing Fine as beeswing So fine a breath of wind might blow her away”🎶🐝Richard Thompson Acrylic, cutouts on canvas 69cm x31cm ⬅️more info to follow #planetsavers #pollinators #honeybees #beehive #honeycomb #springwatch #queenbee #drawnfromlife #beeswarm #collagework #compositeimage #cutouts #colourist #canvaswork #collective #hub #buzzing #galleryarts #artnyc #wildbees#bombus Celebrate World bee day 20 May (at Devon. UK.) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cdbmf3ZrVDi/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[marywedwards]

Random drawing Pencil, erasure on paper 2021 …Sometimes it’s great to just play around, capturing glimpses …. #drawingstyle #randomness #erasure #rubbingout #certainty #uncertainty #fugitive #drawingsheet #studiopractice #contemporarydrawing #newcontemporaryart 🤔 Think I had been studying Delacroix’s drawings…. (at In The Studio) https://www.instagram.com/p/CZclj-3rNY3/?utm_medium=tumblr

[marywedwards]

“There’s more enterprise in walking naked” W B Yeats Details x2 : more to follow… Metallic paint, ink on paper 22 ##poetryinmotion #copper #portraitpainting #candids #metallic #mercurial #transclucent #laidback #abstractexpressionist #expressiveart #newcontemporary #inspirationalart #loosestylepainting #outsiderart #rawart #artbrut #artberlin #artbarcelona #artamsterdam #artmilano #artvienna #artnyc #abstractfigures (at London Borough of Islington) https://www.instagram.com/mwedrawings/p/CZC89KkLYch/?utm_medium=tumblr

[marywedwards]

Birth of Creativity Zeus :Leda and the Swan myth Transformation Triptych 2 “A shudder in the loins engenders there The broken wall, the burning roof… And Agamemnon dead” W. B. Yeats : Leda & Swan Pencil, crayon, wax, watercolour on paper 33x42cm 2021 Transformation Triptych 1 #wildart #wildswan #ovid #metamporphosis #male form #masculinity #femalegaze #tornpaper #outsiderartist #artvienna #artberlin #artlondon #abstractart #freeforms #embedded #maleform #primitiveart #lifedrawing #greekmythology #newcontemporaryart @wb_yeatsofficial (at Ancient Greece) https://www.instagram.com/p/CYw_GRcIrZT/?utm_medium=tumblr

[marywedwards]

Leda : Alone again, naturally🎶 Ink, wax, watercolour on paper 31x26cm 2021 Transformation Triptych 1 #abandoned #resigned #aloneagain #weary #bereft #wildart #wildswan #ovid #metamporphosis #femalestrength #contemporarywoman #blotted #outsiderartist #artvienna #artberlin #portraitpainting #linedrawings #newcontemporaryart (at Ancient Greece) https://www.instagram.com/mwedrawings/p/CYug-AQIeU3/?utm_medium=tumblr

[marywedwards]

Drawing from the old Masters 1. Delacroix: Goetz con Berlichinger’s Horse 2. Rembrandt: Asp 3. Goya : Los Caprichos Inks on paper A4 2021 This year, I learnt a huge amount from copying and understanding structures from the old masters #linedrawings#makingcopies #adding #graffiti #inkdrawings #contemporarydrawing #traditionalist #updated #newcontemporaryart #studies #resources #referencebook (at Books Books Books) https://www.instagram.com/p/CYHsFnyLj4K/?utm_medium=tumblr