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Ed Buziak just added a new piece of art to Saatchi Art! "Serpentine No.1"

I just added a new piece of art titled “Mode Radicale” to Saatchi Art! This mixed-media artwork measures 84 x 59 x 3.5 cms and is a combination of vivid red splashed paint, across an open-page spread of the French fashion journal “Jalouse”, which has been fixed to the hand-painted graphic backing of abstract symbols, itself attached to a rigid plywood backboard.

I just added a new piece of art to Saatchi Art! "untitled" by Ed Buziak and dated 1965 is a 56 x 56 cm pastel crayon on paper piece as a “technique exercise” which I chose to keep… it was literally as near as possible an exact copy of traces of crayon remaining on the college studio wall from three previous pieces I had made. However, after watching a couple of short films on Richard Diebenkorn I noticed a similarity to my own drawing with the open areas of flat colours and hints of diagonal lines. Whilst mine is much simpler or more minimalistic compared to any of Diebenkorn’s, there is a graphic similarity which I couldn’t have copied from seeing his work since it was made at least two years prior to his “Ocean Park” phase.

My technique with this painting is to use a palette knife - cranked like a trowel, not one with a straight blade - which I hold lightly between forefinger and thumb and, charged with a little paint, is dragged across the canvas surface, but barely touching it. Many paint spots and smudges are deposited, but at random. I have an idea of where I want paint to appear but I have no idea of the precise effect and colour combination it will take… all is left creatively to chance. However, the finished effect pleases me and connects me to disconnected parts of my childhood past, so I am naming the ongoing series “Fragments.”

The inspiration for this mixed-media acrylic and collage came from a film about the making Anasazi pottery in the Southern Utah outback. I used cuttings from old French legal documents and tinted papers, with pastel crayon work in addition to acrylic paint, all on a large A0-size sheet of Canson Imagine art paper to represent the pots, river and red cliff face of the location.

Drawn with Conte black, grey, and a Talens & Co “Rembrandt”  Sunproof Yellow pastel crayon, plus charcoal, on an A0 size (84,1 x 59,4 cm / 33.1 x 23.4 in) sheet of Canson “Imagine” 200 gms art paper. The visual inspiration for “Migration” came from watching flocks of different species of birds as they alight en masse as winter approaches from both the farmed fields, inland lakes, and empty beaches of France, where I currently live. Movement impossible to freeze with the eye, the rapid flapping of sometimes hundreds of bird’s wings merging into a blur where individual birds become invisible, or camouflaged.

I just added a new piece of art to Saatchi Art!