https://www.saatchiart.com/art/Painting-estuary/2656781/12998239/view “Rather than as a space in which to reproduce, re-design, analyze or express an object, actual or imagined. What was to go on the canvas was not a picture but an event“. Harold Rosenberg, The American Action Painters, Originally published in Art News 51/8, Dec. 1952, p. 22; then published in Tradition of the New, 1959.
Category: andy whall
Vessel
Vessel, 120 x 100, mixed media SOLD sept 2024
two minds
‘Given that we can only live a small part of what is in us – what happens to the rest?‘ Night Train to Lisbon, by Pascal Mercier. SOLD Sept 2024
Extinction event
Am I verging on an extinction event now, even as i write? Am I stumbling around in an arid desert, malnourished, hollowing out, meaning evaporating and leaking from my now defunct and semi useless consciousness? Or is there something I can offer, something vital, or am I just laying down a fossil, something to become…
opinion(s)
Short article published on UKC website. I thought it would drop in, have a short life and vanish, however it attracted quite a lot of views (thousands) and a fair bit of divided opinion. I thought about a response and decided getting into arguments on the internet was not a great use of time. Publishing…
What happens when a boulder problem falls down?
It depends, however in this instance, the problem in question was at the time my hardest first ascent. Madeleine eats cake, 8A, was a coastal boulder, the rock was shale and it faced out to the Atlantic at Godrevey in Cornwall. Some photos appeared on FB recently and appeared to show a large rock fall…
recent mountains
Pic du Midi d’Ossau, Pyrenees-Atlantique, bouldering at Pont de camps.
still life
Still life, by Eloise, Andy and Ambre
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