Issue 14 early years in New York, he worked

September 8, 2010 with Rudy Blesh for Circle Records and

designed covers for the jazz musician,
Abstract Expressionism: Jimmy Baby Dodds.
Ernst (1920 – 1984)

Jimmy Ernst was an American painter

born in Germany and the son of Max
Ernst, the surrealist artist.y

Ernst became director of The Art of

This Century Gallery in 1942. A year
later he had his first one-person
exhibition. During the late 1940s he
became a member of the The Irascible
Eighteen, a group of abstract painters
and posed for a famous picture in
1950. Members of the group include
Willem de Kooning and Jackson
Pollock.
Featured Artist: Mark Chadwick
Mark Chadwick has been studying fine
art at Birmingham City University and
Sutton Coldfield College since 2001.
He explores a wide range of methods
in painting, drawing, photography,
sculpture and print. His main area of
interest is painting and his recent
works have involved the process of
making marks with tools and
mechanical objects such as toy cars.
He has completed his MA course in
Fine Art where he exhibited in a Fine
Art Show. Before that, he obtained a
BA in Fine Art (First Class with
Honours), a HND in Fine Art,
Foundation Art and A-Levels.

Ernst was considered as an artists’ a

His sensitivity and honesty with his
work, life and with his friends set him
apart from just being a painter. His
paintings and influence came from
within, from his experiences and love
of jazz.

His work were varied, oil on canvas,

ink and gouache on paper, collage
elements and painted sculpture. In his
 On his website
(www.markchadwick.co.uk) you can
check out all of his latest exhibitions
and see his work ranging from
paintings to video pieces. His videos
can be seen on YouTube at
MarkChadwickArt.

What I’ve Been Up to Lately:

Here are a few paintings I have done

since the last newsletter:

His art is concerned with the use of

machines in the production of an
artwork. With our culture becoming
more and more engaged with new
technologies, his work questions the
implications of handing over control of
an artwork to a mechanical device.
With the actions of any machine the
result of human intention, he uses
machines to allow chance to enter the
creative process, exploring ideas
surrounding authorship, consciousness
and interaction. He allows his tools to
create their marks and record its
action in a physical way on to the
“Burning”, 24 x 30, acrylic on canvas
canvas. Currently his work is
concerned with painting process as the
performance aspect of the production
of an artwork, exploring the
relationship forged between materials,
aesthetics and perception across
cultures. He uses machines/technology
to allow paintings to make themselves
in order to further remove the hand of
the artist. Once set in motion he often
removes himself from the studio and
painting process.

“Freedom from Fear”, 24 x 30, acrylic
on canvas
“Heritage”, 48 x 60, acrylic and plaster
on canvas.
I will have my art on display at City
Hall for a month starting at the end of
October. I can't wait!
Something to Play With:
On deviantART, a “drawing tablet”.
You draw, then go to Image, Export
Image, right click, choose Save As,
and name the file. An example of
what you can make, by Delores
Quade:
Poem of the Month:
Persona
I lay.
Decomposing
in a shell of tradition
of societal circumstance.
The guidance I seek,
unbridled desperation,
comes at me
as a staggering horse.
I am but a shadow in it's presence,
I wear my veil of shame.
At times, though,
I rip it off in proclamation.
I am getting better.
How can you betray me?
All that I am?
Declare my love is wrong?
I do not have a lying tongue
I do not fan the fires of hatred.
I do not partake in evil.
Yet I have this malediction
by words of strangers who are dust.
I am fragmented and devoid
Yet I am livid.
I stand in the doorway of my confusion
and will remain until there are no more
days.
2010
Quote of the Month:
“We may not arrive at our port within
a calculable period, but we would
preserve the true course” - Henry
David Thoreau (1817 – 1862)
Contact:

Celeste J. Heery
cjh@cjhfineart.com
www.cjhfineart.com