Editing of Eberhard's film is proceeding apace with Mark getting very excited about various bits of footage lasting a matter of seconds at a time. Having spent time trying to illustrate the various aspects of Eberhard's work that we can cover a short space of time we still need to put this into a context and framework of Eberhard Ross outside of the studio environment. Mark will travel to Germany next week with his new camera for some more material and to spend more time with Eberhard. Much as I would love to be there I must concentrate on the forthcoming exhibition at Gallery 27, Cork Street at the end of November and making a success for everyone.

Its a challenge to keep up with the blog when I am away from the computer. Art London went particularly well with new artist Pete Hoida as well as Marco Crivello and Eberhard Ross. After a mad week with follow-up appointments we took a well-earned 'Summer Holiday' break with the kids for October half-term on a warm but rather damp Greek island! Immediately on my return there have been further appointments and sales leading me to think that the art market has definitely picked up which bodes well for the forthcoming show in Gallery 27, Cork Street. This will be the occasion that rounds up the end of the year when we can show work by all the different artists in our portfolio and meet clients we haven't seen for a while who prefer gallery exhibitions to art fairs. In addition the artists themselves will have a chance to meet each other over a glass of wine. Details of the opening times and dates are on the forthcoming events section of the website.

The film is developing through the eyes of the film-maker, Mark Birbeck at Last Bus. Time and budget constraints mean that we cannot include all the footage we would like. Eberhard Ross is interested in the vast starling swarms that congregate in Northern Europe and often depicts them in his paintings. The flight formations are the subject of extensive pan-European research as they are unique in the animal world. Ideally, for the film we are making about Eberhard's work, we would fly to Rome and capture the swarms of starlings that congregate in their millions in the winter months. However, the flocks of starlings are not guaranteed to appear on any specific date and are dependant on weather patterns.We have therefore decided to concentrate on the working processes which take place in the studio. We are in discussion with a well-known record company regarding the music tracks for the film.

The third in the series of artist portraits is about Eberhard Ross an artist Four Square Fine Arts has been representing since 2007. Eberhard Ross is fascinated by the patterns and non-symmetrical order that occurs throughout the natural world. Painstakingly, he covers canvases, sheets of paper and more recently aluminium with networks of lines and pattern that develop organically in a repetitive and meditative process. Increasingly taking inspiration from scientific data and photographic archives of natural phenomena he captures the wonder of apparently random formations and translates these onto the canvas. We wanted the film to convey something of how Ross's works develop visually and to hear from the artist himself about his enquiry. FIlming began in June 2009 in the artist' studio and a trailer of this new film, The Space Between, can be viewed on the film page

The next in the series of Four Square Films, Threshold focused on Marco Crivello. During the process of the filming it became clear that it would need to centre around a main theme of "improvisation" as a creative process. This is a process fundamental to all creative disciplines and particularly so in Marco Crivello's work which we wanted to reflect in the film. A visual format is an ideal way of doing this rather than through written word. We are taken into the artist's studio, with revealing footage of the artists' improvised working methods. In an engaging interview, Crivello reflects frankly on his creative dialogue, it's challenges, and how ultimately he believes a surrender to process, with its letting go of expectations and preciousness, is always a threshold to new possibilities. As a backdrop to the film the electric cellist, Bela Emerson was asked to improvise music to the images of the film and to paintings she had viewed. New music was therefore created and one of Bela's recordings can be heard and viewed on her section of the new website. The film was released in the Summer of 2009 in broadcast quality on DVD.

This blog documents the process of making films about the artists that we represent. To date we have completed two films and are in the process of completing the third with film-makers Last Bus. The first in the series featured Ellen Bell and is entitled Hard Words. In the film, Ellen talks about the new body of work exhibited in her solo exhibition, Hard Words, which took place in the Autumn of 2008 at the Air Gallery in central London. Being a radical departure from her previous garment-based works we felt that a visual interview in which Ellen described her interest in using text and the changing definitions of words over the years would be of interest to existing followers of her work as well as helping her to develop a new and wider audience. The title, Hard Words, was taken from the term used for the earliest English-language dictionaries and the majority of the exhibition included artworks made using a variety of 'found' dictionaries such as Sheridan’s Dictionary of the English Language, published by Charles Murray et al, London, 1866 and even the intriguing, A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue by Eric Partridge, published by Routledge, Kegan & Paul in 1963. Ellen specialises in using found ephemera in her work and the use of the various dictionaries from previous eras continue to be fertile ground for her intelligent, sensitive and often darkly humorous narrative.