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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May 4

Some time it's worth staying with the uncertainty.
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May 4

Such is the nature of my creative process that after working intensely in a diagrammatic way the surface asks to be broken into and the containing lines made looser. What comes through is a truer (?) rendition of the feelings the protective function of controlled drawing shielded.
This place forces me to take breath, the previous facade can no longer be viable. This raw state is as it is. I feel shame. However these undulations they are sometimes the best way of sharing what it is to be alive to ourselves and others. Alive and not numbed, frozen, distracted or dead. The life force comes from the truth, if one can find it and if one can face it.
#creativeprocess #artistsprocess #unconscious #drawing #unvarnishedtruth #thelonlinessofknowing

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May 3

I have been 'colouring' since I was a child, of course we all did colouring back then and maybe we made our finest drawings and didn't realise and nor did anyone so they were relegated to the bin. The only thing I ever stole was an emerald green coloured pencil that I simply couldn't bare to be parted with. It rolled around with me for centuries. Doubtless never missed. Sharpening my stash now gives me a flat indent of grey on my colouring hand. The act of picking out pointy leads with a a compass part of the ritual. I coloured in jumbo pads of banal characters. You see those 'mindfulness ' pads...I'd rather do ironing and I never iron anything.
I'm enjoying these free flowing consciousness drawings. Collages of inspiring patterns and dramas from Japan mixed with my own medley of unconscious narratives.
I woukd like to acknowledge the amazing drawings of @matthew.collings who has re instated the humble coloured pencil drawing as a contemporary medium for significant works in his prolific series of drawings depicting artists in history with passion and humour.
30 x 42cm
#drawing #colouredpencils #peisleyplates #creativeprocess #unconscious #mymythologies #traciepeisley

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May 2

TW. Sensual content
What the dog said
Under painting complete for now.
#shungasunday #peisleyplates #peisleyceramics #contemporaryceramics #ceramicart #sensual

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May 1

What the dog said
#wip #peisleyplates #shungasunday #almost

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Apr 30

Not a serious claim.. but I love the way un fired glaze breaks the surface like the tones of patterns in a painting by Vuillard with the spaces he leaves between doubs so the colours sizzle on the canvas. I would never think to paint like this as the colours will not fire as they appear.

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Apr 30

Quick peek at yesterday's firing. The colours have fired darker than I predicted, possibly firing a bit high, but as a first draft it looks promising... with a further glaze firing I can enhance areas and pull back drawing.
#wip #peisleyplates

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Apr 30

First draft of Timmy, started a second yesterday, he's an obliging boy...doesn't play any musical instruments though.

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Apr 29

This has had it's first biscuit firing. I'm going to add some detail using underglaze pencils so further drawing will be fired with the glaze firing that comes next. The top lavender detail is mazzerine blue that will fire blue in the next round. I'm hoping the contrast between different styles of glazing will enhance the piece and date it.
#traciepeisley #peisleyplates #sensualobject #contemporaryceramics #wip #creativeprocess #mymythologies

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Apr 27

Timmy
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Apr 26

Placing this outside the studio so I can get a different perspective.
#oiloncanvas #figurativepainting #abstractgirls #traciepeisley

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Apr 22

Creative process has its own time, its own agenda, depths,periods of pausing, trajectory , masters and mistresses. I give it whatever I think it wants.
#studio #paintingstudio #oiloncanvas #creativeprocess #trusttheprocess #artistatwork

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Apr 22

Padded to my studio in my night time attire
#wip #mandala #shhhhhh #peisleyplates

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Apr 21

Based on the Japanese Monmon cat, gilded with gold lustre on semi porcelain. 18cm diameter, signed 2021.
#peisleyplates #monmoncats #monmon #contemporaryceramics #contemporarycollections

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Apr 20

D I S A P E A R I N T O L O V E
Inspired by the poem ' Holiday without limits' Coleman Barks ( a scholar and translator of Rumi)
28cm diameter, semi porcelain, gold lustre, signed, fini
#peisleyplates #traciepeisley #sensualobject #contemporaryceramics #loveiseverywhere #theecstaticworld #rumi #colemanbarks #grace #love

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Apr 20

C A N Y O U L E T L O V E H A V E Y O U ?
A question posed by Matt Licata.
38cm diameter, semi porcelain, gold lustre, signed, fini
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Apr 18

Some details...
I wanted to show the richness of the fabrics and their patterns, I could have made a transfer but the hand drawn holds more expression...I would still like to have greater variety of mark and use the glazes to show a painterly depth...these are some frustrations between being a painter working with glazes. I wanted to keep my own style of drawing...pulling imagery from my unconscious and include imagery that inspires me from other cultures. The swooning enraptured figures in Shunga drawings in a swirling dance of drapery have an intoxicating quality. They were made to incite orgasmic relief in a repressed society. I want this energy and tension in my work. How to paint glass with glass. I saw the figures in bell jars. One day soon I will simply have to sit and study what happens to light, tone, contrast when light passes through a bell jar. I am happiest with the cock, it works well against the tree, yet it was included quickly as an after thought. This is just an approximation of what I wanted. Its always like this as an Artist I think. We nearly get there, but not quite.
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Apr 17

And once I put some gold lustre on the very edge of this I think its complete.
#peisleyplates #shungasunday #porcelain #contemporaryceramics #mandala #thepathiseverywhere #japanesegarden

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Apr 17

Calling occupants of interplanetary craft...

I have an amazing friend who responds to my work, it's like being accompanied by a sage. She's very modest and sincere...this is what she says about this painting ...
The 3 female forms look separate and isolated from one another, and though in similar poses, size, and colours, they are visually distinct.
No connection like shared glances, holding hands, touching in any way, so are, perhaps alone. The blue dog (black dog? Has been used as a symbol of both depression among other things) is the companion to the darker haired figure, though she does not reach out to touch it.
Something about the way the hands are carried suggests more/other than concealment of genital area; they seem almost bound or restrained in some way, yet suggest a discomfort/coyness also.
The 3 figures are configured in a way that also suggests and books of myths and legends of Rome, and Greece i used to read as a kid.
I think of the female triad deities, and mythical figures - e.g. the 3 fates; the 3 graces; the 3 goddesses of the moon etc.
These 3 are overlooked by the larger figure. She is the overarching theme/whole that they are components of, or...? They are under her care? Her expression seems a benevolent one.
The colours are rich and deep. There is a very organic/nature/elemental to them. They are well-balanced across the painting, and allow each element its own space.
There is a sense of movement, and perhaps even a slight tempestuousness that comes from the mark-making; in particular the use of the white/lightest colour. It forms the wave crests that rear at the top right hand, and, if it were not for the fact that the waves are slender and and more weightless, could threaten to engulf the 3 standing figures; the light marks are in the volume of the larger figures hair, and they also slash across the piece itself, cutting across at least 2 of the standing figures. The energy of these marks give me a sense if the wind, the spirit, and yet also, in imagining the action if making them, in places a knife or similar slashing across the body of the work''. Mel Po

#wip #oiloncanvas #carpenters #galaxy #onthisstar #wearehere #hereweare

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Apr 16

I have decided to glaze this piece slightly differently. Most experienced as a painter, working with coloured glass, which is really what glaze is, is so very different to painting with other media. It's a bit like painting blindfolded. Although there is a memory of the colour and it's potential luminosity there is no immediate decision with the eye as to whether it works or not. Similarly making form and making a dynamic image is so much about the edges of drawing, of line, of colour and these are going to become liquid during firing, they may bubble or become flat if there isn't enough glaze applied.
In the end one either gives up or stays intrigued. There are many artists who paint their pieces with acrylic ...the science of glazing seeming to need another life time to learn.
At this stage one, I have to brace myself for failure 🙃 but there is a hope of some magical alchemy and a balancing view that it will likely be good enough.
In this part of the glazing I'm loving the bold blocks of quite a different view of the drawing.
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