Tracie Peisley

Peisley’s work is intense, highly charged with an emotional content that relates to the everyday drama of existing.

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Porcelain Miniatures

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Attachment Pieces

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Beast

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Sensual Objects

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Surreal Watercolours

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Oil Paintings on Canvas

what we do with what we are left with

Large Ceramic

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A Painter’s Porcelain

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Ceramic Sculptures

Myth

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R E L I C selected for Turner Contemporary Open 2021

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Caring for Carers

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Aug 4

AMBER SHELL BONE WIRE GOLD
Amber from the Almond trees, aged wire from a bundle of discarded Greek liturgy booklets, a found horses tooth from the mountain, gold leaf, sea shell and turtle bones in resin.
Votives perhaps for these strange times.
I didn't like the silicone heart mould, I bought it years ago ro bake cakes. It marches in shouting about love in such an uncouth way , if i had had a square or a circle it would be more refined. Little art works.
But I'm coming round to it's kitch Ness and to its two round fat bulbs and pointy end. I thought I had a million tiny treasures to preserve in resin but it turns out there are very few.
I find this poignant and as I surrender my treasures I am reminded that we can embalm in one way or another but nothing is for keeps.
#amberheart #resinheart #votive #votives #heart #alchemy #creativeprocess #surrender

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Aug 4

Any place can be a sacred place.
#sacredplace #sacredrelationships #sacredbooks
#sacredheart
#collage

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Aug 3

A resin heart with the hip bones of a tortoise found on the mountain, resin from the Almond tree and gold leaf. Probably covered alot of miles these little leg parts.
*turtle skeleton found and deceased many years before.

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Aug 3

Some old pieces, some pieces progressing. The environment always demands a response from me but metabolising it takes time. This visit is necessarily limited...a low dive in the infinity pool that is rural Greece.
P.s all these insects were found dead and wrestled away from a pool of ants.
#lowdive #infinity #ruralgreece #naturemorte

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Aug 1

Meanwhile in the small big summer open exhibition @small_house_gallery, my minature porcelain sculptures are surrounded by art.
Can you spot them?
Please go to the thread to see all the Artists involved in this open exhibition.
@saraulfsparre @carowilliamsartist
@pennyhallas @kirstyhallartist @luciefitzcreateI really love the concept and curating of these minature displays.
Micro gallery also trending @pallanthousegallery
#smallhouse #porcelainfigures #microgallery #porcelainminatures #smallisbeautiful #lessismore

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Jul 31

From the Autumn. Olive Grove
#oilpainting #peisleykitchen #mygreekislandhome #olivegrove #vatousa #lesvos

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Jul 31

An early porcelain plate here in Lesvos Greece. The Greek eye us said to turn the envious, evil eye away from the coveted possession, person or animal.
When I see the eye in art it often brings to my mind the inner persecutor that we carry activated defensively as the Artist feels under threat.
My plate collection can be seen during the open studio together with a beautiful catalogue designed by @beathag_ecobard . I cant wait to see them. Preview the online version on my website.
Open house is the last weekend of August. See @miwtrail for details.
#evileye #greekeye #porcelain #peisleyplates #newcatalogue2021

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Jul 31

That's complete. Not so much a horrah as a concession to the task.
I'm wondering what it might eminate in a different environment ...the blistering heat of a Mediterranean summer.
#nofilter #greeksummer #vatousa #lesvos #greekvillage #oilpainting #pleinair #pleinairpainting #mygreekislandhome #viewfromthetop

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Jul 30

Oh no!
Painters know there comes a point when one has to surrender to the fact that whatever intention one had at the start is no longer viable. It just doesn't stand up, perhaps the drawing is wrong or the form or the whole thing. And all the fussing with detail has to be bulldozed through with some decisive bold moves.

Maybe everything will be lost and although it was a delicious enterprise what's left has died on the canvas. Or...a more robust embodied aliveness pumps through the surface bringing all parts of the thing together and it's more than a painting, it's the bloody living essence of the thing, the place, the being that you are painting.

Requires courage and tea and concentration. Belief and resilience.

#painting #surrender #oilpainting #vatousa #beinganartist #pleinair #pleinairpainting #womenartist #traciepeisley

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Jul 29

I woukd like to hang this on the wall as it drys, to get the measure of it, but everytime I drill a hole a bit more wall falls down.
Although I am totally blissed out while painting, I'm looking at this thinking it resembles a ' paint by number board', what do you think ?
#mygreekislandhome #vatousa #lesvos #oilpainting #traciepeisley

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Jul 29

Updating my website, it's an important archive, holds all I do in one place which is quite a task as my practice is broad. It doesn't have everything on it but a good selection. Created by Jonathon Gwyer.
@turnercontemporary #opencall #relic #traciepeisley #raku #contemporaryceramics #contemporarycollections #legs

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Jul 29

It cannot just be what you see right? Otherwise what would be the point...it has to be something else that only comes in the translation of the combined experience of being with, being saturated in and this palette of stuff one daubs on with a mix of optimism and futility.
#wip #oilpainting #vatoussa #greekvillage #painting #pleinair #joy #justlooking #beingpresent #mindfulness #mindfulnesspractice

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Jul 28

When a cricket jumps on your palette!

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Jul 28

I was thinking yesterday perhaps there is no 'go to place' , you know the place one imagines one will feel content and secure far from internal and external concerns. But maybe it's here, not necessarily in the village, on the island or in Greece, but in the very absorption of looking at and being with what's right in front of me.
#wip #vatousa #gotoplace #artassanctuary #oiloncanvas #pleinairpainting #pleinair #olivetrees #greekvillage #lesvos #paintingwhatilove

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Jul 26

Alter
#alter #sacredplaces #anyplacecanbeasacredplace #cover #greekchapel #photogram

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Jul 26

Something of a work in progress, quite a lot of detail around and bleaching sunlight so hard to see the lines. I may prune the tree further.
However I like the way the steel looks so soft...like leather. I have used almost all my bounty but it could take alot more. It's an open piece making me want to use it as inspiration for other pieces.
#wip #gardensculpture #drawingatree #drawing

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Jul 26

I found some drawing materials...very excited by these strips of steel. Their sound, malleability, width, length, curvature...super find.
#drawing #drawinginair #luckyfind

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Jul 25

S O F T

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Jul 23

This piece also selected for the Turner Contemporary Open in September.

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Jul 23

These pieces were selected by the panel and community groups for the open show at Turner Contemporary in September. One piece like the orchestra of all the parts of me and one deep soulful piece.

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