something by cecil
from feeling stationary and isolated – an experimental research project considering isolation through adulthood play.
from feeling stationary and isolated – an experimental research project considering isolation through adulthood play.
A blog which started in 2016 with a-n professional development bursary activity and has expanded from there.
Mixed media paintings using collage and palette-knife-applied acrylics
The increasingly intense exploration of drawing, and the threads between words, sounds, music, lines…
Two jobs available, based in Manchester and in London
My first blog ‘Keeping It Together’ came to a natural end when I moved in to my studio. ‘Keeping It Going’ picks up where that left off. Will I be able to maintain a blog at the same time as […]
In this blog I will be documenting the process of making a short film with the assistance and expertise of film maker Henrietta Thomas. I have a collection of vintage music boxes and my aim is to make a film […]
Explore a curated collection of limited prints by Joyce Treasure rooted in anti-colonial resilience, reclamation, and storytelling. Each piece is an invitation to engage with narratives celebrating strength, freedom, and empowerment
Kenn Gordon has been around for quite a number of years as a gigging musician, luthier and author. Kenn started out on his long musical career way back in 1968 with his first paid gig. Around the same period he […]
Charting the progress of my practice since 2007 – a-n’s longest running blog!
Notes from a Residency at Brisons Veor. November 2024
I’m currently in my second year of a practice-led, full-time Drawing Research PhD at Leeds Beckett University, where I am looking at how drawing can help us to understand loss. In my search for evidence of loss, I’ve been drawing empty chairs and spaces in care homes.
The art project will focus on my years spent in Bulgaria. There, I found a strong connection with nature, met friends for life, learned how to be a foreigner, and appreciated family and national traditions, customs, art and culture. More than thirty apart, I feel the same warmnes
Every month I enter the Boldbrush Art Contest. This blog shows my entries and the links to vote.
Thank you in advance for voting, each one makes such a difference :)
Research project funded by the Edward James Foundation (West Dean College of Arts & Conservation) walking-with texts and imagery from the archive to explore the more than industrial values of forests towards aesthetic, imaginal, and relational values.
Here I’m reflecting on the new training course I’ve developed about how to share art for wellbeing with other people, and five words I see as building blocks to do just that
November 2025 Exhibition of Julija Greaves new paintings all welcome Nottinghamshire
Can’t paint, can’t NOT paint.
The story of starting again
Reflections and Practice from my residency at Backlit Studios in Nottingham and Quad in Derby.
I am a late discovered autistic artist. I am awaiting a formal diagnosis.
I have been reviewing my life through a new lens, an alternative perspective on my interpretation on my artistic life.
I’ve called this blog ‘I draw’ because my art-work is centred on Drawing. I am an artist from Margate.
Tales of the pretty much expected….and sometimes not
Reflections on the RD1st Coaching Course 2017 and beyond. Course fees funded and attendance supported by a bursary from a-n The Artist Information Company
Hi, I’m Helen Fox .im a sewing enthusiast
Ive just retired from 40 years teaching Textiles and Art