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Painting to Some Purpose
By: Ian Maslen
The aim of this new blog (my 2nd here on Artists Talking) is to document the next 12 months, during which I will be painting to some purpose. To what purpose? I'm not yet sure, lets just see how my practice develops and I'll take it from there. I aim to be more pro-active this year and push the development of my work further.
Ian Maslen
I graduated from the University of Plymouth in 2005 with a BA (Hons) Fine Art degree and I've continued to make work ever since. I'm currently based in Hertfordshire and undertaking a residency at the John Henry Newman School in Stevenage. www.ianmaslen.com
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Ian Maslen. Photo: Ian Maslen. An image from my sketchbook.
# 1 [2 September 2009]
I'm back! I've decided to start a new blog as my last one ran its course and was going for about a year. I wasn't an active enough blogger, but I hope that my attitude will change with my new blog. I've just been lurking around Artists Talking for the last couple of months reading everyone elses blogs which has been very insightful. There is quite a community on here now. I think my work moved forward a fair bit last year, and I had lots of encouraging comments and feedback from the two exhibitions that I took part in over the summer. I'm now working my way through my ideas list in my sketchbook, as well as working back into existing work.
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Ian, since noting that we were in the artWorks Open, I had been wondering what had happened to you. I have been to your website, as well as looking at your blog illustrations. I must say that I particularly like your loose black and white work. It has the kind of surfaces and marks that I find visually energising, if you know what I mean.
posted on 2009-09-05 by David Minton