SCHATZART

art by roman w schatz

Heading down the highway.

I am down in the south coast of NSW Australia, looking after my mother who is recovering from surgery. As I travel about 300 km every day to visit her in hospital I am observing the local reality.

The highway is frequented by log trucks and camper-vans, the local towns are full of men with beards, women in track suits pushing prams, shops which offer farming equipment and tie dyed goods, followed by local service clubs offering Australian and Chinese meals with instant bingo satisfaction. Driving in this monotonous landscape, I feel like I am in a Steve Earl song where I just want to get away from it all.

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The great little artists of Ulsan

Last Friday we finished our art and storytelling residency at Ulsan HFS with an exciting exhibition. Students from Reception through to Year 9 created wonderful text based art works, inspired by artists like Colin McCahon, Jean Michel Basquiat , Christopher Wool and Joseph Beuys. They in turn inspired us with their creations. Here are some highlights.

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I AM

Every year for the past six years Morgan and I have been visiting the primary school students at HFS in Ulsan South Korea to run art and storytelling workshops.  This year the students are exploring issues of identity through stories and art works which are  text based.  I have shown the students artists that have used text in their art making,including traditional Asian calligraphy, graffiti art and modern artists such as Jean-Michel Basquiat, Cy Twombly and Colin McCahon.  The students have taken to this challenge with great enthusiasm and have created some wonderful and thoughtful works.  I am looking forward to the final outcome of this project and the exhibition of all art works on Friday at the school.

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Desire and consequence

This composition is based on the Greek myth The Flight of Icarus. It explores the human experience  of desire and consequence and is part of a series of works on the nature of risk taking and escape.
The painting is executed with ink, acrylic, graphite and oil pastels on prepared paper.
This work is for sale as part of the 140Hours of Fame Auction on 29th of January.  For more details go to http://www.140hours.com/

Title: All Limits Are Self Imposed
Size: 60 x 85 cm  (23.6 x 33.4 inch.)
Medium: Mixed media on paper (unframed)

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Little Buddha

Artwork of the week: Little Buddha, 100 x 120 cm, Acrylic and mixed media on canvas. To encourage Japanese children to eat all of their rice the
grains are affectionately called little Buddhas. This painting is my homage to the food of life, in both a physical and spiritual sense. This is a new post for my new facebook fanpage for Roman W. Schatz)

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