Generating an income is always on the agenda, isn’t it? Whether you’re stacking shelves at the proverbial supermarket, teaching or administering the creative efforts of others, the standard advice is always to do something completely different so that you can […]
Yesterday Lynn and Lucy and I met to discuss the final work made as part of the new collaborations bursary, the sound and video work on Greenham Common. Lucy gave me advice on the sound and voice part of the […]
AUDIOBLOG – Please click here Thinking about Sonia Buoé’s response to my last post on nine women… Precision. Where does precision come from? My stitching is precise. Now, it is how my hands speak for me, and possibly other […]
Members exhibition, I am exhibiting my work Freefloating confinement. Exhibition viewable Thurs – Sun 12 -5pm
If the weather holds I am off to see the ‘Kelpies’ at Falkirk this Saturday, as my wife has a lifelong passion and love for horses and so it seems the obvious thing to do. I suppose what interests me […]
week 18 Artists in attendance 9 Time is a ticking…… Has the suction experiment worked…… yes yes it has!!!!! We are now able to hang pictures for the exhibition in the windows hurrah!!! This week the group has been cracking […]
It will be strange if i didn’t publish my work from last year, (2 year) this artwork it was done as a collaboration with Holywells park in Ipswich, it consists in twelve sculptures (there are 13 photos, because one of […]
This is the first completed layer of which will be approximately 6 layers, made up of an array of colours and patterns, overlapping and interweaving, ranging in size.
I have added another wheel which connects straight underneath the large wheel, i think the fact that only a small amount of the wheel can be seen spinning helps give the machine a more authentic feel as if the wheel […]
Pencil and pen portraiture.
This piece is a response to Hildegard von Bingen’s “The Living Light”. It focuses on spirituality and represents the soul using the medium of light sculpture.
Hildegard of Bingen also known as the sybil of the Rhine, was a German writer, composer, philosopher, Christian Mystic, Benedictine abbess, visionary, and polymath,
Payment in kind? What use is that? I’m going through the list of a-n opportunities and there are several stating this as payment. Will PIK pay my mortgage or utility bills for a month? Probably not. I won’t apply for […]
By looking at different artists and how they have painted the female nude it accrued to me that you dont see pointillism in female nudes. This idea of painting in pointillism came from looking at a piece by French Post-Impressionist painter […]
I enjoy drawing as much as i do painting, so allowing time for myself to create these sketches give me so many idea’s that i couldn’t possibly create everything. Again this image was sourced online and i made changes […]
Amidst the infinite sorting out of life, work, post-MA follow ups, and everything else, suddenly the moment came to start a new piece of work. When I do that, I always get the feeling that I have already been thinking […]
This year’s Venice + Scotland presentation at the 56th Biennale will see 28 students and recent graduates from seven art schools across Scotland taking part in a major learning programme.
I found a few images online whilst looking for books on images of the body from Amazon and this particular image attracted my attention and i decided that i would like to sketch it out. Again with all my […]
Hi I was hoping for some advice or experiences from anyone who has sold work via an online gallery or website. I produce mostly small scale drawings. I appreciate that this is probably a fairly vague question but any answers […]
For the second time, a-n will be supporting artists to attend the preview of the Venice Biennale. With a short deadline, a-n members are invited to submit their applications without delay.
So as a contrast to the Rabbit Shaw walk in the last post I decided to walk around behind a less salubrious estate, the phrase ‘council estate’ gives a mental picture of what might be ahead. As we walk through […]
