by paultuppeny | Jul 26, 2023
The paintings depict the landscape around Ovingdean and transport these natural surroundings into the church as images. They are painted upon walnut panel which is revealed between the brushstrokes and in the silhouettes of the trees. The scenes are built in the mind...
by paultuppeny | Jul 26, 2023
Up To Now (Cedar and Pine) The upside down tree Our primary experiences of the passage of time are associated with the natural process of growth (and decay) in the things that make up our environment. These processes take place over periods of time, and it is through...
by paultuppeny | Jul 26, 2023
St Wulfran’s Church, Ovingdean The village of Ovingdean nestles in preserved Downland valley a couple of miles from Brighton. Its historic heart of sits within sprawling 20th Century housing developments and consists these days of four or five 17th century houses...
by paultuppeny | Jul 23, 2022
Edmund Husserl held that it is through “analogous mirrorings” of our own animate being that we are able to experience others as ‘alive’. Our perceptual mechanisms bind duration, growth and finitude with their actual immanent appearance to build a single, unified...
by paultuppeny | May 12, 2022
By Nature (Cedar of Lebanon)“The nature of a thing…is a certain principle and cause of change…and is directly present in it” (AristotlePhysicsII/1/192b20) The sculpture sets out to hold in a single object the life and ‘nature’ of a tree. It begins at its base as a...
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