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K 20251104_111853.mp4 Cate These artworks are primarily with beeswax.This technique is "encaustic".It is paint made with colour pigment melted into beeswax. This example is also beeswax with charcoal. These paintings are done on wood substrate not canvas. These mix of paintings are oil paint using cold wax medium painted on wood. This canvas was originating from CHK highlighting our connection for many years. These other paintings are different types of paints used, such as oil and acrylic, noting that encaustic painting involves a combination of wax and oil. 20251104_112106.mp4 Cate and CHK Thank you for collecting my watercolour,"Dragonfly Seasons" my major subject in art. These paintings are from 2001 and 2005 exhibitions in Australia. They are significant in the artist's numerous dragonfly-themed works. This room housing these paintings is furnished with antique Korean furniture, creating a blend of Korean artistry and decor. 20251104_112255.mp4 Cate This is our storage and packing room. The oil paintings are by myself, Cate Cormack using oil paint and cold wax medium. These are early bronzes from 2004 Judson did in Australia. He made over 40 bronzes in the years of working in Mexico. Some are arriving here in Australia soon. The remainder of the collection is shown at Addington Gallery, Chicago, USA. 20251104_112943 Judson THIS IS FIRST INTERVIEW w p Judson- no transcript test! 20251104_113040.mp4 Judson and CHK We met in 2005 Since then, you've gone on to have quite an international reputation. And I ended up in Mexico. I could get my work cast in Mexico.Moulded, finished and ready for exhibition more cheaply than I could here in Australia. Over a period of time I had four galleries.Two in the United States and two in Mexico. Which gave us a reasonable sort of living as you don't need as much in Mexico. We came back to Australia in 2019. I had a stroke and have been more limited in my use of only one hand. And I've had to learn to do everything with my left hand. And it isn't until one has only one hand that you realise how difficult people with one hand have in life. But it's good in that I cast a lot of my work and moulded a lot of my work Mexico.Now I can have repeat bronze castings done.I have 30 or 40 pieces that I can recast, that is my legacy. I have, over the last three or four years, continued to sell work either through my gallery in Chicago, the Addington Gallery And also from my website judsonchatfield.com CHK Iam interested that you were born in New Zealand and diverse experience in New Zealand, Australia, Mexico, America and Korea. Through your art journey overseas I see diverse sculptures, not only material but also the shape. So is it helpful through your many different countries? JC no, I've always been interested in working in many mediums? Because not all mediums can give life to the idea. Because first of all you have the idea or inspiration, then you have the drawing. So to be able to choose which material is best for the idea. I have worked work in wood and stone and glass. And model in wax and clay for more fluid movement. Just about all of the figures that I have, have been modelled in wax, and then cast in bronze. Because I get a more spontaneous result from that. 20251104_113753.mp4 Judson Mexico is a wonderful country rich in history and cultural diversity.It is like an likening it to an onion with each layer revealing distinct yet similar aspects. Mexico has a long history, with its civilization dating back about three to four thousand years. When the Spanish arrived, they encountered an advanced society, exemplified by the city of Teotihuacan, which had a population of about 200,000, unparalleled in Europe at the time. Mexico has multiple distinct cultural groups, such as the Mayans, Aztecs, and other regional communities, each contributing to the country's overall identity. Mexican food like Korean food is always fresh, generally locally grown. And they have been experimenting with herbs and spices and things that make cooking interesting. Many foods originated in Mexico,like the tomato, many chilies and chocolate. CHK has In Korea these days we are importing many fruits or food all over the country. I enjoy Mexican avocado, also New Zealand avocado. And sometimes I go to Mexican restaurants in Korea. But as you know, in Korea the major food is rice. More sticky rice. Another Asian country has different rice. So how about they enjoy rice or bread? No, they use corn based not wheat into thin pancakes.Yes and also rice. 20251104_132558.mp4 Cate and CHK This is one of my more recent paintings 2024 I went to art school in the late 1970s and lived in Chicago and then New York.I was a printmaker and a performance artist and also did photography. When I was older that I started painting. I had learned in school how to draw and paint in the classical way. But I fell into was to do abstract painting later in my career. The paintings start by themselves without a specific idea, but I may have a particular palette to work with. And the idea sometimes comes with the painting later when complete. This on entitled it Music. There's another painting here. It was at the beginning of the war in the Ukraine. I was very upset about what was happening. I did this painting not knowing that my feelings about the war and the attack from Russia and the people of Ukraine would come out in this painting. But it did. It is an acrylic painting on canvas.You can see the figures of war.You can see that there are some figures of faces in stress and the landscape, both beautiful and destroyed.So this one tells more of a story, an abstraction of feeling. The painting started by itself. I did not draw it out in advance. I did not decide exactly what it's about, but I moved with the abstract from the feeling or the thought that I want to express in the painting. This was painted during the Ukraine war 2022. And this one "Music was more recently, 2024.This painting also was just a feeling, and it was worked and reworked with many layers.And when the painting was finished, my husband looked at it and he said "Insee music I see the musicians, I see the music,I see the movement of the music." Expressing in abstract painting is something that many people do, but sometimes it's good to have skill in art and how to draw!and a background in art history and art in order to really understand what your abstract painting is about. CHK So you are trying like this bigger size and smaller size. Yes, and I do the smaller pieces usually in a series of three.In acrylic and in cold wax with oil paint. These again are abstract.They've had many, many layers. I often to sell small paintings because people live in smaller homes and they want to be able to have paintings they can move around easily.They can put on a bookshelf. They can have any place or give as a gift. And there are a lot of fun to do and Inget many ideas from them and then some turn out well and I put a frame on.Or they become an idea for a bigger painting. So your abstract art is very, the more look, the more interesting. Yes.I think that when you first look, you see color and shape, but you don't know what it is. But the more you look at the painting, I feel that the painting tells you what it wants to say for the viewer, because I know when I'm painting, the painting tells me what it wants to say. So I hope that for people that see the paintings that they too can have their own interpretation. CHK So could you tell me about your artist background born in America and living in Australia? What is different and when creating your art, and living different places,like Mexico? Yes, I only lived in the United States till I was 30 years old.Now I've lived in Australia and in Mexico, two very different countries. But growing up in the US,I do think that it did have a big influence on me because of the art movements of the expressionists, the abstract expressionists, and different modes of art that came on in the 1960s and 70s and also into the 80s. And I think I was much more aware of the art movements and having an art, getting an art education. When I moved to Australia, I had to go to work and I was in work a lot of times, so I only was making art at night.I wasn't part of an art community. And after more of my work career ended, I moved to Byron Bay and I've been more in nature.And like Mexico I have an art community here. Today I am much more interested in not trying to control everything that happens with the work, but letting the work grow itself.I like to try and experiment with different mediums and keep my skills up in all the areas that I work in.Gratefully I have the time to do that and also I'm in a country that is a very safe country and I don't have the pressures on me that I see that many of my friends have living in other countries right now. Very interesting very much for inviting us to enjoy delicious food and wonderful works and your beautiful life. 20251104_133241 Everyone Both of our families have one son and one daughter. Neither plans to have children, leaving our generation without grandchildren. but our lives are good ...like this beautiful view, watching sunsets and birds! We have much happiness at seeing you Chan Han and your wife, Young-Joo. We have followed you for 20 years. We have gratitude to meet again. Thank you for having us. Be happy forever. We will meet again soon. ============= I have done the best I can..I left these two longer as they are the most about the art. 20251104_113040.mp4 Judson and CHK And 20251104_132558.mp4 Cate and CHK This is all the videos I have. There is one section I can NOT find - a beautiful discussion with you and Judson " CHK and Judson Your work is both energetic and calm.For example this bronze is flying! The carvings are more still. Carving is a slow process where the idea is held in the mind while working. With bronze sculpture is it first modelled in wax built more spontaneouslyThis large piece is carved mango wood.The intention is to see it from all sides.It is called "Sorrow My Mother" I carved after she died. These small sculptures are very diverse in style and materials." Iam not sure which video this was! Please let me know if you can open ! |
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