http://www.ballardian.com/fay-ballard Thu, 29 Jul 2010 11:27:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.ballardian.com/fay-ballard/comment-page-1#comment-628 Rick McGrath Sat, 20 Jan 2007 19:46:10 +0000 http://www.ballardian.com/fay-ballard/#comment-628 Yes, Ernst's "eroded landscapes" with their timelessly lifeless structures certainly fired off The Man's neurons, and certainly "Storm" (above) and "Uncanny" (on her site) look Ernstian, but I think if you look closely, you'll see Fay has cleverly trapped little people inside her trunk-like structures... which would make her more of a fantasist than surrealist. Her technique is quite good, especially in her pencil and watercolour words, like "Chard", which reveals an exact eye for colour, but a thankfully unobsessive attention to detail. She basically uses flora for her subject materials, often blending a jungle of species into a free-flowing homage to the fantastic visions of Henri Rousseau. Oh well, at least plants aren't neurotic. Yes, Ernst’s “eroded landscapes” with their timelessly lifeless structures certainly fired off The Man’s neurons, and certainly “Storm” (above) and “Uncanny” (on her site) look Ernstian, but I think if you look closely, you’ll see Fay has cleverly trapped little people inside her trunk-like structures… which would make her more of a fantasist than surrealist. Her technique is quite good, especially in her pencil and watercolour words, like “Chard”, which reveals an exact eye for colour, but a thankfully unobsessive attention to detail. She basically uses flora for her subject materials, often blending a jungle of species into a free-flowing homage to the fantastic visions of Henri Rousseau. Oh well, at least plants aren’t neurotic.

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