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 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...
by jamesnaughton | Sep 16, 2014 | Naughton and Moran, Studio Phase Diary
A Long Anticipated Return As the trip culminated in the visit to Green River this was mirrored in it also being the last destination in the studio too. I got to this point feeling the pressure of the exhibition looming and also the challenge of creating work on a...
by jamesnaughton | Jun 3, 2014 | Naughton and Moran, Studio Phase Diary, The Exhibition
This Time Last Year The anniversary of the trip seemed like the perfect time to return to the blog to tie up all the loose ends. I can’t believe that it’s a full year since we were sat on the plane with all the anticipation of what might be. Looking at...
