by jamesnaughton | Mar 15, 2016 | Final reflections, Moran and Me, Naughton and Moran, The Exhibition
All Good things A long time to reflect I thought I’d give myself some time to reflect properly but certainly not as long as the time since my last post. In wanting to communicate some idea of the project having a lasting impact on my work only patience has...
by jamesnaughton | Dec 17, 2014 | Naughton and Moran, Studio Phase Diary
The Finale. This is the painting that eventually sat next to Moran’s ‘Nearing Camp’ in the Gallery at the very end of the show. There was always a certain inevitability in me revisiting this view of Tollgate rock and the Palisades but only when I...
by jamesnaughton | Dec 2, 2014 | Naughton and Moran, Studio Phase Diary
This was the last painting I started, and by this point I wanted to feature a large piece in each different phase of the exhibition. It seemed a natural choice to gather the many sites of natural phenomena together in a “The Wonders of Yellowstone”...
by jamesnaughton | Nov 18, 2014 | Naughton and Moran
Tales and Details During the Canyon phase of the studio work it became clear to me that much of what I do attempts to place the viewer in a position which would be otherwise inaccessible. In this piece I had a desire to create a degree of the disorientation that I...
by jamesnaughton | Nov 13, 2014 | Naughton and Moran, Studio Phase Diary
A Mountain to Climb Feeling like this was all one big learning experience I approached each large piece in a slightly different way, this Teton painting was made by a gradual scaling up from a very small sketch to a work that was 60x40cm and then finally the 6ftx4ft....
by jamesnaughton | Nov 13, 2014 | Naughton and Moran, Studio Phase Diary
The Big Country I’m sure that anyone who has followed this blog, through it’s various twists and turns, will have become aware that one of my main ambitions was to see how the experience would be communicated in a number of very large pieces. Even in the...
