the artlog exhibition of maquettes: part three

Welcome to the first exhibition at the Artlog. It evolved out of the interest of regular visitors in my practice of making articulated paper maquettes for use as compositional aids.  A few of them felt encouraged to produce maquettes of their own, and thereafter everything just blossomed.

MAQUETTEERS

Rima Staines: out of the woods

Peter Stevenson: magic lantern man

Lucy Kempton: beasts of Bremen

Steph Redfern: tongue-lashing

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Rima Staines: out of the woods.  Rima is known to many from her inspirational blog, The Hermitage. At her home on the edge of Dartmoor she conjures the Celtic twilight in her meticulously-drafted creations, and the maquettes she made for this exhibition carry with them the unmistakeable whiff of woodsmoke and green places. Her partner Tom Hirons is a mask-maker (among many other things) and as a one-time mask-maker myself I feel a great deal of warmth toward this couple who have a wealth of making-skills flowing abundantly from their fingertips! Rima is no stranger to maquette-making, and if you visit her site be sure to view the animations she’s produced. Films of the most delicate artistry and sensibility.

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Bell-Dancer

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In the above image Rima’s bell-dancer maquette shares a stage with an intriguing array of companion objects. Note the drying paintbrushes at bottom left. In our house too there are windowsills at every turn littered with  paintbrush-stuffed jam jars. It’s clearly the defining visual motif of those who paint!  Rima’s second maquette (see below) has been left in separate pieces (no brads holding it together) because she feels she may in the future use the figure to make an animation.

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Wayfarer

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Peter Stevenson: magic lantern man. Peter is an illustrator and story-teller. A couple of years ago he acquired a magic lantern, and now he combines both his skills in story-telling magic lantern performances featuring his drawings and paintings. Peter calls his lantern-slide The Magical Illuminarium. The following maquettes will be viewed as projections in a forthcoming Magical Illuminarium show. I love the scale of the girl next to such a massive beast.

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Lucy Kempton: beasts of  Bremen. Lucy is better known here as both a friend to the Artlog and for her heart-warming blog Box Elder. But today we present her as a Maquetteer, with wonderful creations of her dog Molly and a set of charming beasts devised  on the theme of The Musicians of Bremen. Molly regularly features at Box Elder, and although I’ve never met her… she lives in France… it seems to me from all I have read and seen on the blog, that she has been most charmingly captured in this maquette.

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The lovely Molly

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The Musicians of Bremen

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Steph Redfern: tongue lashing. Steph is an artist and the mother of Chloe Redfern, whose horse and hare maquettes were in Part Two of this exhibition. Like mother, like daughter, it would seem, as both have produced animal maquettes. Steph’s delightful chameleon is seen here on the prowl for a meal.

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More Maquettes in Part Four, soon.