I really enjoy working with organic materials in my practice. There’s something almost quite wrong about it, as though I’m breaking some kind of rule or something. Hair is something I’ve found myself working with this year. This is one […]
In my adolescence, I visited the artist, my father, in his London flat. There was a room designated for the studio; I could not smell turps or white spirit; I could not see a Francis Bacon tsunami licking the prosaic […]
I’m currently in the last term of university at Carmarthen School of Art, and this term I’ve been focusing on working with domestic, every day objects. My aim is to experiment with them and try to make them useless in […]
During 2018 to July 2019 I am one of ten artists working as part of a project, ‘Surrey Unearthed’ across the Surrey Hills. I am an artist and papermaker and work by walking, collecting, interacting with people and making.
Reflections on what turned out to be rather life altering.
Observing and recording the everyday, the landscape changing constantly, my journeys through each day present new experiences for me to note and capture: moving images; macro images; moments in time. All inspiring me to reiterate through my work, using video, […]
Thank you to RD1st for delivering such amazing training and enabling a supportive network to thrive afterwards. Thank you to A-n for offering the training and enabling me to take part in such a life changing experience – I wish […]
I have found it difficult until now to know what to write for on my coaching blog. I don’t really use social media so putting my voice online I find a tricky thing to do as I am not sure […]
An artist struggling to create art in response to the Grenfell Tower tragedy.
Reflecting on the ‘Maggie monument’ debate and commemorative arts as an artist working today
How things map out is so often purely coincidental. Here I am, sitting at a farmhouse table an hour’s travel outside Saskatoon, a place I had never even heard of. The sun is hot, a gentle breeze and the ticks […]
A diary of art making and influences for a year.
The artistic, social and political challenges of working on three ceramic art projects.
A short piece on the reality of being a financially and physically challenged artist in the industrial midlands
This is a community based walking group which is using walking as a research tool for locating TS Eliot’s the Waste Land and selected other poems in Margate. Please feel free to join us for our next walk in Margate.
Added Bright to my name as homage to my Dad who inspired my love of art.This blog is about my journey through the BA and MA. Looking back it’s interesting to see how I keep returning to swimming as a theme. But hopefully with greater depth of understanding each time.
For my first series of paintings this year I wanted a challenge. I wanted to document and translate scenes that contain all the forms, shapes and weather conditions of our landscape. I chose Wales as my muse. From vivid green […]
based in Dover, Kent
‘Porthole’ is a practical (and literal) exploration between the human and the non-human world, in direct response to the places I moor my narrowboat.
studio activity, February 2018.
Exhibition of Inspired work by West Country Artists
The perfect quote that took 4 years to discover
I need to start at the beginning…
I’m making a noose for myself_2012- In Seoul, there is a famous bridge, Mapo Bridge, which is referred to as the ‘Suicide Bridge’ because, tragically, many people jump off this bridge to take their lives. Personally, I do not […]
Going to arts development meetings cost me time and money – but can freelance artists afford not to go?
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