Something Old, Something New

The painting shown below began in France ten years ago and was finished in Corfu, where it remains in the wonderful Corfu Gallery in Corfu Town

'After the flood' - Mike Healey

It's called 'After the flood' and is an attempt to show both the desolation and the hope of a landscape recovering from some dreadful inundation

It's large (200 x 100 cms) and on canvas. I used gouache throughout then added a final varnish

By way of contrast, the collage shown below was finished this week in my tiny studio in Kendal, UK

Mike Healey

It is a gouache collage with photographic elements, including the face of Kurt Schwitters who once lived near Ambleside, here in the Lake District

Early next month there is an exhibition up here dedicated to Schwitters. This is one of two works that I will submit for consideration

Diorama by Mike Healey

The other submission (above) is a three-dimensional diorama which explores Schwitters claim that perspective is a 'swindle'!

Here persepctive is reversed so objects that are close to the viewer are small, whereas those at a distance are large

This is tthe complete opposite of the rules associated with traditional Renaissance perspective

MIKE HEALEY