TONY STEELE

b. 1952, Liverpool, UK.

EMAIL CONTACT: info@tonysteeleart.com

Fine Art Studies:-

1969/70 - 1981 ( Cheshire & London ) culminating at MA level in NY USA

1990 - 1991 University of Greenwich ( Cert Ed )

Vocational: 1981 - 2010:-

Master Screen printer, N.Y. U.S.A

Screen printer, Isle of Man & London, U.K.

Art Teacher, Åre, Sweden

I.T. Analyst, London, U.K.

Richard Long's 2.0:0.5 series photo-work morphed as pseudo 'art object' in 2015.

" 1. The brain seeks patterns;

2. The brain is predisposed to use coincidences to create or discover patterns; "

[ 'Brains Seek Patterns in Coincidences', Professor Bernard D. Beitman, PsychiatricAnnalsOnline.com. ]

" One must really be engaged in order to be a painter.

Once obsessed by it, one eventually gets to the point where one thinks that humanity could be changed by painting.

But when that passion deserts you, there is nothing else left to do.

Then it is better to stop altogether.

Because basically painting is pure idiocy. "

[ Gerhard Richter, in conversation with Irmeline Lebeer ]

" I believe people don't think at all. Either you write or you speak, but you don't think in any case.

The word 'thinking' makes no sense. "

[ Dieter Roth, extract from an interview with Irmeline Lebeer ]

" If you realise that all things change,

there is nothing you will try to hold on to. "

[ 'Tao Te Ching' 74, Lao Tzu, 400 B. C. E. ]

Whilst resident in Glastonbury I had been contemplating all of the above.

And, not to forget, the archaeological West Country itself.

I can add my interest in harmonic reciprocal pattern (Golden Ratio) & static reciprocal pattern (Vesica).

Using the basic mark ( 'Line' ) I set out to observe, feel, read, contemplate, probe, imagine my local landscape.

'I draw on my local landscape for inspiration.'

THE WORK A & THE WORK B: 2016 - 2019:

'Discerning' Pattern:

I used Glastonbury Tor as the 'focal' point for Pattern.

The sketches, research, contextual data & data created are summarised @ https://www.glastonburyalignments.co.uk/context

The Work (A) began with a digital map of my Glastonbury neighbourhood and a digital compass.

( Vesica Algorithm, Phi Section, Ratio Bi-direction, Ratio:Reciprocals, Vicinities of Precision, Tri-Directional Kepler triangles. )

TheWork (B) : This ran parallel with The Work (A) and concentrated on 'novel' concomitant elements.

( Fibonacci & Lucas Sequences, Cyclic Pisano Periods, Sqrt PHI Ratio, PHI:phi Sub-division, Radiation & Gravitation. )

THE WORK 2019:

'Stalking' the Random with Pattern:

Two Random Points on a plane (circle, vesica, phi-section, kepler - radiation, gravitation).

3yrs Euro bi-weekly Lottery Results mapped to 3 Modulos - 7,8,& 9.

Prime numbers transposed to Modulo 6 (positive:neutral:negative).

I have used a 'rigid' 30ins x 30ins square canvas as a package unit.

The content of the Work can be contained within one package or spread over a combination of packages.

The nature of the content demanded computer software for crunching the numbers and for colour, vector line & text.

The Work has been commercially printed onto the canvas.

Reproductions of my artwork on this website are low resolution, optimised raster images & do not exhibit the qualities of the VECTOR graphics in the actual artwork.