GoArt Berlin Garry Orriss

BERLIN SKETCHBOOK II

Unique and captivating insights from the artist's private visual art diaries.

Welcome to the Garry Orriss Berlin Sketchbook (2). The artworks appearing here form one of 23 personal visual art diaries. Often producing a work a day - each diary is unique and gives us an in depth view and personal insight into the thoughts, feelings and creativity of the artist. This book has (114) artworks and is based on a Garry Orriss stay in Germany from the 1st of July 1997 to the 5th of August 1998. All the artworks appearing here are in chronological order and measure 52cm x 35cm unless otherwise stated. There are many personal thoughts and observations written by Orriss in German, English or Chinese, many of which have been translated for this webpage. We have also included below each image the date, title and relevant information recorded by the artist on the work as well as the medium or technique used. Please note that the pages out of this sketchbook diary are Not for Sale, thought it is possible due to certain requests, to have an artwork made from a diary-page into a registered and traceable work of art. Any commissioned artwork is a 'Work on Paper' and will measure 76cm x 56cm - 30" x 22" inches. It is hand signed, dated, embossed with one of the artists studio embossing seals and comes with a tamper proof high security hologram. The artwork is traceable and also has a COA ID number and Artwork Identification Code. The owners details are registered on the official owners list at Goart-Authenticated and at the Garry Orriss studios. For more information see our Price list or contact us in Zone 2.

1.07.1997 'Preliminary sketch for a still life'. Part of a Major Artwork

series. Technique used: Ink and pastel drawing with gouache. Buy now.

2.07.1997 'Still life with cherries'. (Titled in German). Medium: Gouache and pastel in the artists Berlin Sketchbook 2. Size: 52cm x 35cm Please Note! This artwork can be freely downloaded as a personal screen saver. For more information go to our Free Downloads

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3.07.1997 'The little Prince'. Medium: Watercolour and pencil. (Top left). Image size: 35.5 x 26.5cm Buy now. 6.07.1997 'Caught in the act'. Watercolour and pencil. (Top right). Image size: 35.5 x 26.5cm Buy now.

7.07.1997 'Drawn before going to the swimming pool'. 'If you sit long enough at the side of a river you can go from seeing yourself to your enemy and if you sit there even longer, you will transcend from boredom into wonder'. Title is in German and English along the bottom of the work. Medium: Watercolour and pencil.
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8.07.1997 'Pool scene, preliminary sketch before going to the pool with Susanne'. Medium: Graphite pencil.

18.09.1997 'Sun setting while sitting on a green meadow near the village of Schwarz in the German state of Mecklenburg - Western Pomerania'. (Titled in German). Medium: Watercolour, ink and green pencil.
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19.09.1997 'Bathroom Scene'. Medium: Pencil, pen, collage and gouache in the artists Berlin Sketchbook 2.
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20.09.1997 'Susanne'. Medium: Watercolour and pencil. Buy now.

21.09.1997 'Drawn at a time where I thought I knew the truth, but I was wrong'. 'Sometimes we are too scared to reveal any of my true self, so we hand out a false perception, a deceptive Illusion to block the path of others having insights as to whom we really are'. *The title and text for this work is taken from the etching Illusions.

Technique: Gouache and pencil in the artists Berlin Sketchbook 2 diary. Buy now.

22.09.1997 'Monday'. (Top left) Medium: Pencil and gouache. Size: 35.5cm x 26.5cm.
23.09.1997 'Dienstag / Tuesday'. (Top right). Medium: Pencil and gouache. Size: 35.5cm x 26.5cm Buy now.

24.09.1997 'Getting under the shower'. (German title). Medium: Pencil and gouache. Buy now.

25.09.1997 'The Chinese pillow'. Technique used: Pencil and gouache.

26.09.1997 'There's always room for uncertainty'. 'Memories of a Stalingrad cowboy show'. (Top left).
Medium: Graphite pencil sketch. Size: 35.5 x 26.5cm
27.09.1997 'Simple still life'. Medium: Gouache and pencil. Size: 35.5 x 26.5cm

28.09.1997 'Lovers, thoughts while playing with her nipples'. Medium: Chinese Calligraphy, pencil and green gouache.

29.09.1997 'Ich muß Deutsch lernen! Nachdem ich meine Hausaufgabe gemacht habe'. (German title).
'Lerning German after doing my homework'. Medium: Pencil, pen, ink and gouache. Buy now.

30.09.1997 'Two pictures of Susanne'. Medium: Ink, watercolour and pencil. Signed and dated lower right.
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2.10.1997 'Thinking of Susanne'. (Top left). Medium: Ink, pencil and gouache. Size: 35.5cm x 26.5cm. Notice that the work appears on the previous page. Buy now.
3.10.1997 'Verschwinde ich wirklich meine Zeit'? (German title). 'Am I really just wasting my time?' (Top right). Portrait of the German actor Richard Watts. Medium used: Ink drawing with German newspaper clippings and Chinese calligraphy. Size: 35.5cm x 26.5cm Buy now.

21.04.1998 'The Vase'. Mediums used: Pencil, gouache, collage and ink in the artists Berlin Sketchbook 2 diary. Artwork size: 52cm x 35cm. Buy now.

22.04.1998 'The Vase 2'. (Top left). Medium: Pencil and gouache. Page size: 35.5cm x 26.5cm Buy now.
23.04.1998 'Lovers beside the table'. (Top right). Medium: Ink drawing. Page size: 35.5 x 26.5cm Buy now.

24.04.1998 (Untitled). Medium: Graphite with coloured pencil and gouache.

26.04.1998 'In the Bush'. (German title). 'Im busch'. Medium: Ink drawing. Size: 52cm x 35cm. Buy now.

27.04.1998 'South pacific beach and bush scene'. This artwork is now part of a major artwork

series. Mediums used: Photographic collage with ink and wash in the artists Berlin Sketchbook 2. Size: 52cm x 35cm. Buy now.

28.04.1998 'Beetle, bird and bush'. Medium: Drawing ink. Size: 52cm x 35cm. Buy now.

30.04.1998 'Apartheid, after listening to the radio'. Medium: Acrylic and newspaper collage on paper.
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1.05.1998 'Barraboys' (Top left). Mediums used: Watercolour, pencil and ink. Page size: 35.5cm x 26.5cm
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2.05.1998 'My last Saturday! A comfortable, tolerant anarchy'. (Top right). Medium: Pencil. Size: 35.5 x 26.5cm Buy now.

3.05.1998 'A field in Mecklemburg Vorpommen'. Below the work written in pencil is: 'And where does the truth lay? Does it lay in the middle? No, the truth lays in that what's new! It's like looking at art (or a situation). If you look at both and you understand what you're looking at, then you're already there, but if you can go beyond that what you're looking at and see something that you haven't seen before then that's where learning starts. If we can learn from that what we see then not only society but also the individual is fifteen thousand steps further. Garry John Orriss 3.05.1998'. Technique used: Ink and brush on paper. Size: 52cm x 35cm. The Berlin Sketchbook 2, visual art diary. Buy now.

4.05.1998 'Forms'. Medium: Ink drawing, signed with the artists monogram. Buy now.

5.05.1998 'People tend to fall in love with style. A strange combination of facts and myth. Tuesday afternoon'. Medium: Pencil on paper. Size: 52cm x 35cm. Buy now.

6.05.1998 'The most interesting painting expresses more of what one thinks more than of what one sees und all I have to do is pick up a pencil in the hand'. (Top left). Written in English and German. Size: 35.5 x 26.5cm
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7.05.1998 Saure Gurke-Zeit mit Fensterblick'. (German). 'A strange moment in time with a window view'.
(Top right). Pencil drawing. Size: 35.5cm x 26.5cm

8.05.1998 'She'. Pencil on paper from the artists Berlin Sketchbook 2 diary. Buy now.

9.05.1998 'Still leben ohne Kirchen'. (German), Still life without cherries'. Medium used: Watercolour,
gouache, pastel and collage. Signed and dated lower right. Size: 52cm x 35cm. Buy now.

10.05.1998 'Preliminary sketch for Sunday painting'. This artwork is now part of a Major Artwork

series, see also newspaper articles about this artwork. *The symbol above will open a new window, you can later return to this page by closing that window. Medium: Ink and gouache in the artists Berlin Sketchbook 2. Buy now.

11.05.1998 (Untitled). Medium used: Gouache, collage and ink. Size: 52cm x 35cm. Berlin Sketchbook 2.
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14.05.1998 'Bodies in the sun'. Signed and dated lower right. Medium: Pencil and Ink. Berlin Sketchbook 2.
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15.05.1998 'Doing her hair' (Top left). Medium used: ink. Page size: 35.5 x 26.5cm Buy now.
16.05.1998 'Keine Zeit'. German for 'No time'. (Top right). Signed with the artists monogram lower right. Technique: Ink drawing on paper. Size: 35.5 x 26.5cm

17.05.1998 (Untitled). Medium: Pencil.

18.05.1998 'Bedroom scene, between the sheets'. Signed Garry Orriss lower right. Medium: Ink drawing.
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19.05.1998 'Vor dem Harschnitt'. (German title). 'Before going to the hairdressers'. Medium: Pencil, ink and acrylic wash in the artists Berlin Sketchbook 2 visual art diary. Dated and signed lower right. Size: 52cm x 35cm. The transition from one work into another can clearly be seen here, note the naked body in the background. Buy now.

20.05.1998 'Every dog has its day, Jeder Hund hat sein Tag'. (German and English title). Medium: Ink, collage, gouache and pencil. Berlin Sketchbook 2, visual art diary. Buy now.

21.05.1998 'Ich wünsche mir etwas schweres: Leichtigkeit! (English). 'I'm wishing for something difficult, lightness'. Signed and dated in German lower right. Technique: Pencil drawing with collage on paper.
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22.05.1998 'Der kleine Bastard'. 'The little bastard'. (Title in German). Medium: Pencil, ink, collage and gouache. The visual art diary, Berlin Sketchbook 2. Buy now.

23.05.1998 'Wenn die Liebe einschlägt wie ein Blitz, werde ich mich weder um Zentimeter noch um das Alter kümmern. Niemand Träumt, was ihn nicht angeht'. (German title). Medium: Pencil, gouache and collage.
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24.05.1998 'Both of these men are always in the park at Kollwitzplatz. There are 6 in total, five men and one woman. They're all alcoholics and these two often go walking around the block asking for money. The one on the right always asks first'. Mediums used: Pencil, collage and gouache. Size: 52cm x 35cm. The Garry Orriss Berlin sketchbook 2, visual art diary. Buy now.

25.05.1998 'Still life with apples'. Signed and dated lower left. Medium used: Coloured pencil drawing, ink
and collage. The Berlin Sketchbook 2 visual art diary. Buy now.

26.05.1998 'Playing Skat with beginners luck'. Medium: Pencil.

27.05.1998 'Standing in front of the German parliament, the Reichstag. Cities like dreams are made of desires and tears. What is home? Is it a place or really a feeling? Or is it a niche that we carve out for ourselves in the morass of ones own experiences, fantasies and ideas. The unification of Germany and eventually that of Europe was the dream of everyone who lived through the war. The Germans I think are idealistic and realistic, it just goes to show that if you can balance your fantasy with your discipline you can achieve anything and reunification was the first step! Medium: Ink on paper. Size: 52cm x 35cm. The Garry Orriss Berlin Sketchbook 2, visual art diary. Buy now.

28.05.1998 'The Immanuelkirchstr Street Church in Prenzlauerberg Berlin. Medium: Ink and gouache. *To see a sketchbook Orriss did while living in the Immanuelkirchstr Street go to the Berlin Sketchbook 1.

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