Colour Spectrum

Do colours reach out to you?

During the past week at the Toronto Art Expo, watching people and paintings suggested to me that at least some colours may touch us with feelings and emotions. This is fun to think about and there’s lots of information sources for possible insight to what might be going on for you.

Colour for me is about expressing light, shadows and shapes. Sometimes a painting involves a spectrum of colours and sometimes mostly one colour satisfies. It’s especially fun when a canvas wants me to shift gears in the middle of interpretations to move into places not previously seen.

Not everyone sees the same colours: this link demonstrates . Do these colours reach out too?

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Jim Pescott is an internationalcontemorary artist who lives and creates in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. To contact Jim directly about his paintings, or a project you think about, please phone 403-870-0591 or email Jim at paintwithdots@shaw.ca. Enjoy his Facebook page at http://facebook.com/jimpescottpaintingsindots

In A Yellow Wood

Love to experience of a place like this whether during a hike or on a path within my thoughts. Colours, lights and smells rolled up in sensations as I pass through, carefully, not to disturb the essense of things.

People write about experiences like this. I paint them.

American poet, Robert Frost, wrote “two roads diverge in a yellow wood” and somehow touches me as I paint. The spectre and foreshadowing all dwell within the trees as he continues reflecting.

“And both that morning equally lay

In leaves no step had trodden back.“

Wondering about trees in your world and what transpires for you.

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Jim Pescott is an international contemporary artist who lives and works in Calgary Alberta. To contact Jim directly about his paintings, or a project you think about, please phone 403-870-0591 or email him at paintwithdots@shaw.ca. His website is http://www.jimpescott.com

Most Recognized Painting In Italy?

Something very cool happened back in December when my paintings were in Florence for the “Symphony of Color” exhibition.

First, the VF Agenda section of Vanity Fair magazine, the Italian issue, listed the “Symphony of Colour” exhibition in Florence as one of the top things to do in Italy during September. The organizers of “Symphony of Color” were not aware VF Agenda was listing the exhibition until the mention appeared in the Vanity Fair issue.

Then, the other very cool something that happened is VF Agenda used an image of my painting “Red Trunks” to illustrate their mention of “Symphony of Color”. At the time, this Calgary Artist was in Paris, France, attending the Salon 2011 for the Societe Nationale des Beaux-arts at the Carrosel du Louvre when I learned VF Agenda had used “Red Trunks”. The message I received was through a through a Facebook message that shared the image from the magazine. This is the same image you see with this post so the quality could be better but currently it is the only copy I have.

Arguably, “Red Trunks” was one of the most recognized paintings in Italy last December.

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Jim Pescott is an international contemporary artist, living and working in Calgary, Alberta. He has participated in exhibitions in Italy, France, Spain, USA and Canada including Paris, Florence, Cannes, Barcelona, Ferrara, Montreal and New York City. For information on paintings, Jim may be contacted at 403-870-0591 as well as by email at paintwithdots@shaw.ca

http://www.jimpescott.com

Autumn Light

“Light! And lots of it!”

This 12″x 10″ canvas was pretty firm about what needed to happen as the colours of autumn appeared. There’s always a flow of energy in moments like this until I respond to the level desired. “Autumn Light” is the result.

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Back Scene at Quebec 2011 Exhibition in Montreal

Hello everyone,

 

Here’s a before the opening, behind the scenes, look at the Quebec 2011 contemporary art exhibition in Montreal from October 13th to 16th. Well, it is behind the scenes for Paintings In Dots as the crate has just been unpacked and the paintings are ready to be place on the wall.

 

It was amarvellous week in Montreal around the exhibition dates. Lots of wonderful new friends. And the paintings must have been sharing “en francais” as they too have lots of new friends. Plus, on the second to last day, a Montreal gallery approached about representing Paintings In Dots. Mais oui!!!

 

Lots to do with two exhibitions in Paris this December as well as an exhibition in Florence. I’ll be sharing more information on this in the weeks ahead!

 

Jim Pescott
Paintings In Dots
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“Autumn Spirit”

Autumn started in earnest today where I live. Leaves changing into new colours as winds bluster them into the air. This canvas was impatient with me as I painted. “Hurry, hurry”, it was saying. And I knew this was because the sun was now melting everything away.

“Autumn Sunshine”

Where I live the autumn colours are yellows and golds with hints of reds and oranges in the undergrowth. During the afternoon, on a warm sunny afternoon, the yellows glow as one walks among the trees so that the air is yellow and ones steps into this as though it is a golden fog.

“Autumn Sunshine” is a set of five 18″x36″ canvas (90″x36″ total). As pictured, these are displayed at the “Here Now” exhibition in Ferrara, Italy.

Autumn Dreams in Reds

My goodness it has been awhile since my last blog post. Well, I have a new desktop computer now so hopefull this will keep things going smoothly.

Here’s a new painting to get things started: “Autumn Dreams in Reds”. The canvas is 40″x40″. Not sure I quite remember just where this location is as the image is very much something I remembered as I stood in my studio looking at a white canvas. I started with large, sloppy, wet, dark, dots as a first layer and during this I then remembered how the trunks needed to be. As the layers of dots happened it seemed very clear to me that there were to be lots of reds and so there were. I know I’ll recognize this place when I see it again.

“Autumn Transition”

I love the transition in things. Watching how clouds morph into shapes or noticing how the day is cooling toward evening are transitions filled with awe: a glance at the spirit in things we seldom notice. As I look at it, life without transitions is simply not life. 

Transitions start slowly. Everyday is a transition and when we clump a group of days together we call this a season. Seasons have been a source of paintings for me since the beginning: an endless, endless joy in this. 

I find the most exciting time of transition is when the beginning is first noticed. So much has happened prior to this but the energy must build before we sense anything it seems. Our perceptions are seldom in sync like a time-lapse process. We just sort of turn the lights on when we notice something:  “Oh, look at that!”

“Autumn Transition” is an early moment I’m so grateful to have caught. It is a smaller canvas: 10″x12″ much like a glimpse before things “really” change. The sunlight helped me see this.

“Autumn’s Touch”

I’m just back from an exciting few days in Hot Springs, Arkansas. A lovely, relaxed town situated next to Hot Springs National Park which I understand is the first national park in the USA. My paintings were presented to the public during the June evening art walk by Legacy Fine Art. “Autumn’s Touch” (36″x36″ acrylic on canvas) shown here is one of the paintings and another, “Autumn Outing” (shared with you in a previous blog post), is also there and was purchased before the evening was over. All this humbles me really as I simply relate to the images the way the canvas wants me to: if I’m struggling with a painting it’s because I’m not listening to the canvas as I need to.  Being in Hot Springs during the art walk allowed me to meet many of the people touring the galleries. Just shipped more paintings to Hot Springs.