TMT Exhibition (Texture, Marks and Traces) a Covaid-19 period internet exhibition

Kevin Robertson

Currently showing at 2 Dogs Art Space, Akashi, Japan is the new TMT exhibition with artworks from the early Edo by an unknown artist and late Edo period woodblock prints by Kunisada I and II - plus Sadaharu Horio's performance painting along with artists from Western Australia being Melissa Nolan McDougall, John Cullinane, Duncan McKay, Lynne Norton, Michael Doherty, Shelley Cowper, Michelle Green-Bourne, Kevin Robertson, Caspar Fairhall, Diokno Pasilan, Cynthia Ellis, Louis Moncrieff, Pippa Tandy, Ken Wadrop, Sally Douglas, Monique Tippett, Jurek Wybraniec and Sally Douglas

Monique Tippett

This TMT exhibition (texture, marks and traces) whether they be made from oil, acrylic, water colour or pencil etc..., it does not matter, what this show hopes to exhibit is the variety of TMT that has been achieved so far by these aforementioned artists.

Melissa Nolan McDougall

Sally Douglas

Shelley Cowper

Early Edo Period Japan artist unknown

Caspar Fairhall

Diokno Pasilin (top)

Michelle Green-Bourne

Michael Doherty

Duncan Mckay

Sadaharu Horio (left)     Jurek Wybraniec

Kunisada I  

Connie Petrillo  

Kunisada II

Lynne Norton

Pippa Tandy 

Ken Wadrop

Louis Moncrieff

Cynthia Ellis

Pre/Post Coviad-19 - small works on paper by Peter Davidson

 Magnified Pre Covaid-19

Kakogawa heavy Industry

Mixed media 

Waterford watercolour paper 300g

9 .5 cm h x 9 cm w

Living in heavily industrialised Hyogo Prefecture, Japan one may not tend to think of it as a beautiful place but for me it is and it was normal for me to drive around by myself through the back blocks of Akashi, stopping for lunch in the car before the state of emergency.

How often I would park the car in the middle of some heavily industrialized port-side area or within urbanised rice growing farming terrains, enjoying strange aesthetic sensations that resonated from geographies encountered.

Magnified Corona Virus Domestic View Nishi Ku Kobe no 1

Mixed media 
Waterford watercolour paper 300g

148 mm x 100 mm

Especially the winter/spring of Japan with the wonderful plum trees blossoming not long after the cherry blossoms start cascading over the parks, roads and footpaths with a beautiful aroma coming from the flowers whilst taking digital photographs that I use as an aide mémorie to create ideas for artworks back in studio, this was a normal modus operandi within my painting and drawing studio work.

All these aforementioned memories, coupled the state of emergency within the Hyogo Prefecture have now affected in some way or another what I choose to paint or draw nowadays and it appears into the near future.

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Currently, I am trying to maintain my studio praxis through the taking of digital images from my small apartment veranda views, high above ground then magnifying them on my computer screen but things have changed, I can’t smell the flowers or say hello to people in the street in going for a walk at any time, no eating at restaurants or meeting people, so my normal routine has been altered.

However, I still hope to reveal the stunning kaleidoscope of subtle distant hues of Kansai landscape from this high rise position with its half tints, contrasts, and textures seen from buildings, islands, the inland sea, industry, urbanised areas, rice fields, mountains, clouds, sky, tops of trees in this Japanese spring, please enjoy the changed studio praxis.