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Will's Paintings
Fine art and furniture by Will Standring in Snug, Tasmania.
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Upcycled from a 1930′s art deco dressing table, the two side chests have been stacked with a new top. European Oak with a new Tasmanian Oak top. Finished with Garnet Shellac.
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Will Standring, Vortex, pastel and charcoal on paper, 52 x 64.5 cm.
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Will Standring, 14th Wave, 2014, Pastel, 72 x 38 cm (unframed). Collection of the artist (’s wife).
I have reposted this painting to show the frame. This time in an unusual Tasmanian timber, Tea Tree. This is under non-reflective glass.
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Will Standring, Bedside Tables, Blackwood: 43 x 40 x 60 cm. Collection of the artist.
More fine furniture from the workshop. This is a pair of bedside tables in Tasmanian Backwood finished with Organoil Danish Oil and wax polish.
The tables feature a hidden draw which looks like the top rail. This was conceived as a place to hide small valuables or things I would not want my nephews to find (such as the NBN fridge magnet with the Wi-Fi password).
Originally the tables were of different dimensions so got nicknamed ‘Giotto’ and ‘Donatello’ to tell the components apart. As I built them, the design changed slightly so I was able to make them nearly identical. The nicknames turned out to be a good idea because it is very easy to mix up the parts during assembly.
The next version of this table will retain the hidden drawer but also feature a proper drawer like the ‘Dali Table’ previously posted but keep the larger self space.
Tasmanian Blackwood except the shelf, which is Tasmanian Oak. Mortice and Tenon construction with traditional dovetailed drawer. Silicon bronze fixings.
#tasmania#Tasmania Art#tasmanian craft#handmade#tasmanian blackwood#bedside#bedside table#traditional#fine furniture
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Will Standring, Tinderbox Reef, Pastel, 53 x 64 cm Work In Progress.
This painting is almost ready to leave the easel.
This is the first pastel I have produced on sanded Kitty Wallis paper. This spectacular paper is very rough and takes a lot of colour. This creates a very high contrast (which I am not used to) so I am working to make the middle distance and background recede a bit more and leave the eye on the drop-off to the reef.
This paper forces you into good habits. The surface shreds whatever you use to blend colours with - normally your fingers.
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Will Standring, Dali Table, Tasmanian Oak. 51 x 47 x 90cm. Collection of the artist.
This table was built for a specific space in the kitchen so it is worktop height. It supports the router and holds various cables, hard-drives and other computer paraphernalia. I designed it with a shelf for my laptop, so I can quickly put it somewhere safe but accessible.
The design of the legs includes a ‘lark’s tongue’ transition between the square tops and the octagonal legs. The legs are too thin for their length and for this reason, I call this the Dali Table - after Salvador Dali’s long-legged elephants in his painting ‘The Temptation of St. Anthony’.
Even though this table wobbles crazily, I really like it. It brings a smile to my face because it is imperfect, anarchic and slightly ridiculous - a slightly surrealist table.
Tasmanian Oak throughout handmade traditional mortice and tenon joinery with dovetailed drawer.
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Will Standring, Lighthouse Bay, South Bruny, 2018, Pastel, 28 x 53 cm.
This painting is of one of my favourite places, Lighthouse Bay in South Bruny National Park at the Southern tip of Bruny Island in Tasmania. The bay faces South and given the right conditions the ocean can be pretty wild. From the lighthouse, you can sometimes make out the 60 metre high rock of Pedra Branca, forty kilometres south on the edge of the continental shelf. A place so exposed that the wave sensors on the top are routinely triggered. I am told that this is where the surfers head when they get bored with Shipstern Bluff.
#bruny island#tasmanian art#tasmania pastels#pastels#will standring#south bruny national park#pedrabranca
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Will Standring, Barcelona Rooftops after Picasso, Coloured Pencil, 18 x 26 cm.
I made this for my wife, Sarah J, a few years ago after a visit to Barcelona in Spain. Artists used to copy master’s works as part of their training and it is something that I have resolved to do more of in 2019. This is framed simply in celery-top pine.
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Will Standring, Ninepin Aurora, Pastel, 53 x 36 cm (Unframed).
This painting came about as a result of my Aurora chasing in 2015. Even though we are near the solar minimum, for a number of months, the Aurorae in Southern Tasmania were spectacular and on some nights almost bright enough to read by.
The colours are created by the ionisation of oxygen and nitrogen. Digital cameras capture far more colour than human night vision. On this occasion, the night was moonless and the aurora very strong. The most striking thing about the aurora is the movement which is difficult to photograph or paint, but there was also a noise, a low rhythmic rumbling like a distant train.
In my interpretation I have tried to strike a balance between the colours I saw and how I experienced the aurora through my camera.
There are only a few good vantage points with a southerly aspect and during that period, these spots got quite busy. There was a great camaraderie between the aurora photographers in near total darkness.
The custom frame is in Tasmanian Blackwood.
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A custom easel and pastel cabinet for the studio...
Beautiful Tasmanian Oak.
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Will Standring, Mount Barrow from Beauty Point, Watercolour, 23 x 30 cm.
I learned to paint from my grandfathers. Jack was a designer and illustrator by trade and Tom an exhibiting amateur watercolour impressionist. I have ended up with cross between their two styles and my watercolours are very traditional. Like Tom, I have taken on a different medium, pastels, to allow me to try different artistic approaches.
The vibrancy of pastels is superb for the bright Tasmanian light but they are not easy to carry around outside. Nothing beats watercolours for plein-air convenience and speed.
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Will Standring, Low Head from Inspection Head, Watercolour, 23 x 30 cm.
In Tasmania during summer, the evening sky often transitions from rose though to the deepest blue. The lines in the water mark where the incoming tide meets the Tamar River. The yachtsmen and yachtswomen use these lines to read the currents in planing their course.
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This is a prototype for a series of paintings on the Aurora. The biggest challenge is to get the contrast between the dark sky and the lights. These colours are pretty much as the camera sees it. To the naked eye the most obvious feature is the movement of the beams radiating from the horizon.
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14th Wave, 2014, Pastel, 72 x 38 cm.
Morning surf at Blackmans Bay, Tasmania.
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Blackmans Bay Equinox, Pastel, 59.1 x 53.0 cm.
I think that the red paper has lent more depth to the greens but it has been a lot more work than the previous painting, Blackmans Bay.
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Blackmans Bay, Tasmania. 59 x 53 cm. Pastel on card.
Private Collection.
Looking to South Arm and the Iron Pot Lighthouse. This is the biggest pastel I have attempted yet - almost a full sheet of off-white Canson Mi-Teintes Tex. There's a fair amount of work in the middle section and foreground. Lights are all Art Spectrum (Flinders BV, Lemon Yellow and a very small amount of Warm White) and the underpainting is Conté pencils and the ever dependable Rembrandts. No charcoal this time.
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Five of the Tinderbox Contours paintings have gone to Chris and Bob at the Saddler's Court Gallery in Richmond, Tasmania. All are 39.5 x 34 cm (excluding the frames) and there are some smaller pieces in progress this week.
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