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I approached my painting of Vin Diesel with more fluid brush strokes which perhaps adds to the emotion. The Greens and Blues add to the tone of mood. For my next work I have chosen to work on a landscape […]

i see from google today is the start of the lunar year, it would have been my dad’s birthday too.  birthdays are symbols…. new hope…. new beginnings….another blog post. it’s a post i’ve been considering before writing, very often a […]

I am working on the cine films again. I thought I would look at images that repeat signifying the narrator/film maker. I made screen shots of the animals and birds that one particular film maker habitually filmed. These would make […]

I had been very excited and positive about the opportunity to involve multiple people’s perspectives in my work with Moyse’s Hall, and the museum carefully collected used coffee tokens. These proved my work had enticed new visitors to the Museum […]

Music is a big part of my process depending on my mood my music often matches. for example if I want an upbeat feeling to my work I will create an upbeat playlist with songs that match or the latter. […]

Many thanks to Beth McIntire, Senior Curator Prints and Drawings, and Nick Thornton, Head of Fine and Contemporary Art, for giving up their time to show me the stored works on paper, prints and fantastic drawings by Gaudier-Brzeska. Since then […]

I’m pondering what this experiment tells me. It’s a photograph of a shadow from my studio space falling onto one of my favourite collages. It connects what I’ve made to architectural space and forms – the shadow of the studio […]

During my Second year of University I came across the work of Wilhelm Sasnal and was hooked. Unfortunately I have missed the opportunity recently to see his work up close but I remain transfixed by his use of colour and […]

To start this post nothing better then a video from the first year, it is a demonstration of how to make a casting face with plaster, the volunter it was Jen, and really it was very interesting and educative the […]

The surname, Rookes, of the women who ran The Widow’s Coffee House was an irresistible pun. Rooks are notoriously clever gregarious birds. Rookery isn’t just where rooks nest, it can also mean deception or trickery. Bird is a derogatory word […]

On Monday, I finally met up in person with Paul Hammond of Hammond Associates and Kyla, the Kirkby shopping centre manager, to look over the unit that will be used as a base for artists. To re cap, I will […]

  From an early age, I was inducted into the Canular. When I had my Luekemia at aged 2, the nurses were unable to find veins. So much so, they had to go for veins inside my foot and my […]

I have two apologies followed by two rebuttals this week. I have been warned that I could be shooting myself in the proverbial foot, but I fear I have little of either feet left to dispose of!! My first apology goes […]