The Rusty Plank

About a year ago friend Jim Blower and myself decided to enter the 2016 Swell Sculpture Festival held every year at Currumbin Beach on the Gold Coast in southern Queensland.

A surfboard made of steel?

Combining our creative and sculptural expertise we decided to build a 3.7 metre surfboard out of steel. The whole concept came together through our passion for surfing, sculpture and of course steel.

Forged from cor-ten steel and weighing over 130kg. we have spent close to 100 hours creating our vision for this years, Swell Sculpture Festival.

The festival is in it’s 14^th year and has 48 artworks displayed on the Currumbin beach from 9^th till the 18^th of September.

Starting to add cor-ten steel to frame.

Finished deck…. love that curve.

Jim finishing the bottom.

Sanding the rails.

Delivering to festival site.

The Swell Sculpture Festival, Currumbin. Gold Coast  2016.

"Men of Steel"

Jim and me.

BOTANICALS. New artworks by Potts & Anne Leon @ The D-bar Gallery, Coollangatta. Qld.

                                           
The theme for this show came about when we realised we are both working independently with Australian plants and nature. Through we have very different styles and approaches to our subject, our work sits well together, and is complementary.
What makes this show unique, is the fact that we have taken a very traditional genre, 'Botanical Studies', and given this timeless subject a contemporary feel, by implementing techniques that stretch traditional use, and combine to give the viewer a fresh look at plants, flowers and the natural world.
The scale of the flowers in Potts' work reflect a joyous re-interpretation of this timeless fascination man has with botany.
Annes' works display a new way of allowing plants to imprint onto paper by extracting the juices and tannins of the plant, through a cooking process, leaving a delicate buy defined "eco-print".

  

My fascination in oversized plants & flowers has led me to create this new body of work, which draws on my Graphic background, but injected with a passion for Pop Art. A bit like Margaret Preston goes Pop! Wood block printing meeting silkscreen printing.
My original artwork is drawn on 'scrapper board at 1/4 the size of the proposed finished art. I then enlarge the artwork and photographically expose it onto a silkscreen. From there I print & hand colour the work on canvas.This whole process gives the finished work the look of an over-sized, textured, wood-block print.