I regard my paintings and drawings as commodities for selling. I can and do produce very conservative pictures of which there has been a limited success due to the saturation of traditional art market in Oxfordshire. I itch to develop […]
This week, the sun is shining at Glasgow’s Tramway, everyday perceptions are challenged at Bristol’s Spike Island, and environmental politics are explored at Nottingham Contemporary.
In this set of works I have been incorporating the use of lens based media. I wanted to capture the thought process of dealing with everyday life in an urbanised environment, in search of solitude. I recorded a video whilst […]
I’ve been experimenting in my studio at university, using dead plants, newspapers and wool, I have been creating sculptures. I have found that whilst creating these sculptures I have found that I enter that creative flow that I normally do […]
Following the previous installation, I walked further down the beach to the edge of the land where I could look out to both sides of the river. I found an interesting spot with large pieces of driftwood. Materials that had […]
On this day I was feeling increasingly frustrated with the landscape around me, I was missing the landscape in Wales. The freedom, the ability to climb high and look across the world below me. This was important for me, to […]
This is my 3rd year degree show project which shows my works, inspirations and how my work progresses.
The artist Alex Hartley has won the Arts Foundation’s £10,000 Art in the Elements award, chosen from a shortlist of four.
Hi, I really need some advice about shipping canvas paintings. Packaging isn’t a problem, but I’m having trouble finding any courier who will insure paintings for their sale cost. Royal Mail/Parcelforce won’t insure them. The only service I can find […]
Why build a Chinese roof? By the early stages of my final year of my degree I wanted to think about constructing an authentic Chinese roof with the original style of tiles and under skirt of wooden patterns. On my […]
I have had a lot of time to work this weekend due to having a near empty house, as a consequence of drawing so much I have had the luxury of the experimenting with existing techniques. I have begun to […]
Yagami Light- the central character to my painting is a high grade achieving teenager bored with everyday urban life until a notebook entitled ‘DEATH NOTE’ falls into his hands. On reading this ‘death note’ he discovers whoever’s name is written […]
Metamorphosis is a series of works which explore the past and the present, and how we change emotionally and physically. Initially inspired by the book of the same name by Franz Kafka, I have expanded this theme, looking at the […]
First few brush strokes. Tricia Cottrell: The Abyss in progress (2014) Photograph: Tricia Cottrell (2014) A bit more contrast of dark and light. Tricia Cottrell: The Abyss in progress (2014) Photograph: Tricia Cottrell (2014) I’m pleased with the stormy sky […]
AUDIOBLOG – Please click here I’m sat here with the ubiquitous cup of Lady Grey tea, and a slice of toast, made for me by Mike. I dumped the bags and coat in the hall and flumped into the […]
this is the piece i took last night to the ZAP networking and raffle i was very pleased with the whole event, had a good chat to lots of different artists. I will post the piece i won later on […]
my work is about five different women wearing Hijabs or veils in different position . Try to create the sense of everyone is different personality , each one of them stronger than the other. The way they faced the problems […]
The final document in a trilogy from three respected researchers.
as a British -Egyptian artist it is possible to see from both perspectives-through Western eyes and from the standpoint of an Arab. the art world is creating a bridge between the west and the Middle East and allows Western people to make their own minds about the Arab world.
It’s been one whole year since I created a month long online vigil to mark the 75th anniversary of the Retirada, the flight from Spain at the fall of the Second Republic to Franco’s fascist forces. Two days ago I […]
So after getting all housework completed I finally sat down and managed a pretty hardcore session of approximately eight hours (broken at times) of good quality working time. Lovely. I have been pondering lately on the question of artistic complacency; […]
I wonder if this will work? A huge by-product of my UCS Degree-course in Fine Art was getting to grips with computers. As a technology virgin I feel that I became a whole woman through my interaction with Apples and […]
