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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Plein Air Drawings

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Plein Air Paintings

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Paintings Made from the Unconscious During the First Wave

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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

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The Body I am in

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Nov 26

A drawing of my ceramics.
This process is a revelation! I am enjoying it so much.

I have this sense of the birds caught in the nets of the cherry orchard in summer time. Those cherries are so tasty.

If anyone is passing I will be at the Museum Gallery tomorrow.

#peisleyceramics #drawingceramics #drawing #birds #birdsinherhair
#whitstablemuseum

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Nov 26

Latest ceramic
24 x31cm porcelain stoneware
Latest drawing of ceramic
58 x 42 cm mixed media on paper

And if you wondered...

The bird cage is an antique one in the Gogos museum in Vatousa. The gate represents the iron gate in my childhood, the candelabra...the light of the world maybe, the Moth..grief. the swallow always enduring devotion the swirling winds...emotion and tumult, the vessels...life force and mortality, the labyrinths..the path, the olive wreath both victory and false claims of victory.The acid yellow my madness, the mazerine ...the balm.

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Whatever it means to you, what ever you see as we bring ourselves in our looking.

#peisleyceramics #drawing #personalmythology

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Nov 25

When I've made a ceramic piece I often feel frustrated by the drawing within it, although there are other qualities I like. So today I made a drawing of a piece. I have to say I like it even more than the ceramic.

58 x 42cm mixed media on paper

Following the recent 6 week focus on ALL things drawing I learnt a few things:

1. Use felt tips.
2. Enough already.
3. Draw from life.
4. Do more of what you really want.
5. Set an intention.

Rather than make a ton of new work... I'm going to look properly at work I have already made and be still with it through drawing.
I'm going to draw the dog more often.
#drawing #enoughalready #allthingsdrawing #peisleyceramics #drawingcorrespondence

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Nov 25

Quick Peep

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Nov 25

The difficulty of breathing
TW: death, grief, last hours

We looked at drawing and breathing in the recent drawing Correspondence course, the body I am in with @kovats66

When I was a child I was shy of my out breath showing in cold air as a bodily emission. In Yoga practice my own breath alarmed me, the vulgarity of it. My friends often notice my heavy wheezing breath.
In the recent exercises I was returned to my mother's dieing breaths and my very small self calling close to her ''no mummy please mummy'. She did come back once to stay with us, long enough for me to sing to her the lullaby I had made up for my daughter and hymns I learnt as a child. Long enough for those close to see her and say good bye. With ruptured aneurysm they congeal and then rupture again I think. Medicated against any pain and not conscious her later breaths were so long and so deep and seemed to exhale everything in a deep groaning. Her body seemed to wither beneath the sheet and she grew paler. Maybe it's something people see and never mention. It's a sacred right of passage. I write it so I don't have to visit it alone. So I can grieve and feel felt and not alone.

#mypoetey #breathing #grief #trauma #breathe #lastbreath #ifeelyoufeelingme #drawingbreath

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Nov 24

Drawing
#drawing #mydogs #paws #awolfineveryone

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Nov 24

They dreamt of eachother
Beast Collection ( more on my website)
37 x 49 cm
Large vintage print, Indian ink & pencil
#drawing #beast #wolf

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Nov 24

A N Y W H E R E

( Thiss poem is inspired by the rhythm and loss in Janet Frame's poem about her sister who drowned, Myrtle , ' oh I wish you would come back again... for I think I still see you dimly...' in the film 'Angel at my table.')

#drawing #drawinginbrail #constellation #lovepoetry #mypoetry #notanywhere #airdrawing #noone #poetrytonoone #janetframe

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Nov 24

A I R drawing
#mypoetry #drawing #peisleyceramics #loss #lovepoetry #missing #loveiseverywhere #noone #poetrytonoone

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Nov 23

Currently exhibited at Whitstable Museum Gallery. One of the few large porcelain stoneware pieces I have made. Multiple firings created the painterly expression I wanted.
Sitting within the talent of 30 ceramic artists. Until Sunday.
#peisleyplates #peisleyceramics #fineartceramics #contemporaryceramics #collectableart

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Nov 23

C O M E

(This poem is inspired by the film, 'A Ghost Story ' by David Lowery)
#mypoetry #mydrawing
beautiful swallow tatoo by @pastilliam

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Nov 22

Flashback to my beautiful 'Museum Coat' lost on the 13th February 2018 at Paddington Station on a train to Oxford.
It never surfaced as far as I know. I could make another, I have enough of the theatrical fabric I bought at Walcot Market in Bath and I could re-paint the drawings, sew on a million roses and applique the sapphire blue satin which was from amazing opera singer @lauremeloy I think. Perhaps I will start it as a slow New Year's project.
#mycoat #floralarmour #lost #canihaveitback #somethings @britishmuseum

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Nov 22

Women running
#drawing

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Nov 20

Self portrait
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Nov 19

'Love does not begin and end the way we think it does.'
James Baldwin

Mixed drawing media

#drawing #drawingfeet #love #thebodyiamin #drawingcorrespondence

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Nov 17

Bea calls me mother or wierdo or mum or my mummmmmmy. This is her hand.
Biro sketch.
#drawing

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Nov 15

An evening drawing with Grandad, Bea & Stefan can you tell whose is whose! With thanks to the obliging Echo zonked out on anti-inflammatories.
#drawing #ifeelyoufeelingme #family #takingcareofdad

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Nov 15

Because there isn't one direct way to approach this body I am in and to speak my truths about it would not be the truth of it and because I have a dismorphic sense of myself and I try not to look and in truth find it excruciating to be looked at , but because I know this body shame has been learnt and should be addressed for my good and my daughter's good I am stitching on both sides and the tangle is an element in the story of the body I am in.

#thebodyiamin #conflictedbody #senseofself #slowstitch #graffiti #writingbackwards #hiddentruths #hiddennarrative #selfloathing #lovingself #womensbody #personaltruth #learntloathing #mask #ageing #sacredbody #fatty #dismorphia #shame #metoo #whattheysee #whatisee.

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Nov 14

Ta Darr finally got to see the show @turnercontemporary . Glad to see my figures safely ensconced in their perspex tardis. Very pleased to be in this selection and the other in another equally lively eclectic room of works. Just a quick stop today. There are so many inspiring pieces of work on display. What an ambitious project.
I recognised some pieces by friends and lots of brilliant work I haven't seen before. Horrah for diversity.

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Nov 14

My friends tell me its better this way
#body #sacredground #slowstitch #wip #drawing #backstory #thereverseisalsotrue

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