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Ephemeral Connections

Posted in Art, landscape, Photography, sculpture, Toni Tiller with tags , , , , , on April 7, 2010 by Toni Tiller

I was out and about in the world the other day and took this photo.

It’s been a long time since I have done one of these and tell the truth, I am not in love with it, but in this case that isn’t the point. I also spent most of the week walking around my property digging up rotten wood, and carefully brushing back all the wet and rotted material to uncover the forms. Then you set them out to air cure and they petrify and look like this.


I never thought the two had anything in common, but I am beginning to rethink that.

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Accidents Will Happen

Posted in abstract, Art, art on paper, figurative, landscape, monotype, printmaking, Tom Bennett with tags , , , , , , , , on January 14, 2010 by Tom Bennett

And with the monotype process, it often does. And it did! The paper had been soaking too long: over night, and I had dried it out. Then a few days later I soaked the paper again, and somehow it had degraded to a point so when I pulled the print, it stuck to areas of the plate where the medium and been especially tacky. But I thought maybe it was salvageable in it’s serendipitous abstraction.  I thought I’d share my mess with you, like an audience member on Dr. Phil.

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accidents will happen

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Uh Oh, It’s Wednesday Again Isn’t It?

Posted in Art, landscape, Photography, Toni Tiller with tags , , , on November 11, 2009 by Toni Tiller

I’m sorry everyone, I feel like I have been kind of phoning it in the last month, and I wish I could say I have some super awesome art to share today but I am not sure that I do. What I do have is a couple of photos from spending the last month up in northern California, a place I took to right away, so these might just be glorified vacation photos, except I wasn’t on vacation so…ah jeeze, I’ve confused myself. Nevermind, I think I am still a little jet lagged.

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Hollow Mantle

Posted in abstract, Art, art on paper, figurative, landscape, monotype, nude, printmaking, Tom Bennett, work on paper with tags , , , , , on October 21, 2009 by Tom Bennett

This started out with an intention of abstracted landscape and something else happened. Metamorphosis. This is indeed the nature of art making. This is the monotype. This is melodramatic, isn’t it? I’m on a weird schedule, little sleep. That’s my excuse.

Hollow Mantle

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Hollow Mantle, 2009, monotype, 18″ x 12″

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Mas Monotypes

Posted in abstract, Art, art on paper, figurative, landscape, printmaking, Tom Bennett, work on paper with tags , , , , , , , on October 1, 2009 by Tom Bennett

The monotype truly has become my main medium lately for its immediacy and its capacity for fluid manipulation that removes any stultifying preciousness. Its a true marriage of intuitive study and finished work. Here are some more from a series of abstracted ‘cave’ images.

dripping cave

Dripping Cave, 2009, monotype, 18″ x 12″

somnabulist cave

Somnambulist Cave, 2009, monotype, 18″ x 12″

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Nude as Landscape in Progress

Posted in Art, figurative, landscape, nude, Tom Bennett with tags , , , , , , on August 27, 2009 by Tom Bennett

An unfinished oil on board, a nude that’s something of a cross between a landscape and a rabbit. I haven’t decided which way I want to see it: as a horizontal or vertical.

Landscape figure

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Edward Weston’s Abstract Eye

Posted in abstract, Art, landscape, Photography, Tom Bennett with tags , , , , , , on March 30, 2009 by Tom Bennett

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Edward Weston is one of my favorite photographers. His ability to reveal a heightened sense of design in the natural world is un-paralleled. His work speaks a singular language. Here is an entertaining and informative commentary on Weston’s west coast work by his grandson, Kim Weston.
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