So, whilst not having an awful lot of time to create drawings I have never taken seriously the importance of taking decent pictures of my work – and how it can change its imapct. Whilst a necessity for having good […]
artmaking / placemaking
WEEK 16 Artists in attendance 13 ITS FREEZING and Its time to think about the exhibition! eeeek! The group are still working on their pieces for the exhibition, this ia a tremendous achievement as a few months ago they would […]
Moving on to work on the head and hand of the figure and stepping back I can see that I have made the hand too small in comparison to her face. I need to rework this. Taking pictures of my […]
After several days of working on the background here is the finished background and the start of painting in the chaise my figure will be reclining on. Kathryn Raffell, 2015, Untitled, Acrylic on canvas, 180cmx120cm.
After many, many ideas for a background to my latest painting I have found the perfect print to use that wouldn’t overpower the foreground, I finally decided to use a spot style print. Kathryn Raffell, 2015, Untitled, Acrylic on canvas, […]
Photograph of Wangechi Mutu, 2015, 3648mm × 2736mm. Taken from on-line Google image search. I happened upon a very interesting artist called Wangechi Mutu. She is photographed with a mix of pattern and objects that appealed to me as a […]
Visiting Artists: He Cometh to the Art School Skip forward a few years and here she is, sweet sixteen; our young artist. Raised in the Sixties and living the Seventies. One day He cometh, the one raised in the Twenties […]
As my residency draws to an end, I feel slightly sad to realise that this will the last time I spend so much time in Hestercombe house. The smell and layout of the building has become a familiar dwelling and […]
Yesterday, I combined checking out some retail outlets, looking at exhibitions and meeting up with a friend for a chat (lesson learnt from last year – all work and no play makes you feel like hell) Both of us wanted […]
As students we have all been part of the university environment for a couple of years at least. Have you ever asked yourself if you would like to work in one? If so have you thought about what kind of […]
Whilst working on a drawing today some rather obvious but important points sprung to mind, I realised that it is only through continuous practice that I as an artist can really understand 1. What I love and 2. What I […]
Here is a set of works I created in response to a pattern making session in the studio’s. I began with creating a 2D piece using triangular shaped newspaper cuttings. The shapes I created developed from the image of slate […]
Words count too. This blog might help me see myself in reflection.
For a few weeks now: a drawing of part of the studio, every morning, to start the working day. Collection of aspects of a small space.
I have been doing some extensive artist research for some inspiration as I would like to develop my work into installations. David Nash: I was given the opportunity to visit David Nash’s studio’s, his work inspires me as he uses […]
Since November i have been documenting the regeneration of a building on the A1 into an architectural practice. this building is Art Deco in style and is absolutely stunning. The moment i read this building was to be restored i […]
This painting is from the film Watchmen –set in an alternate 1985 where superheroes exist. The painting depicts two characters: Laurie Jupiter and Dr Manhattan. A vigilante; Rorschach conducts an investigation into the death of a fellow crime fighter and […]
What can be said? It is a drawing. An image of a bird, above it tonal cloud-shapes,no horizon. The bird is linear. Form is implicit in the way in which the line works? The rest of the drawing is […]
Yesterday we installed Gris Gris at the Newbridge Project, and it think it went rather well. So if you’re around Newcastle this afternoon, why not pop into the Newbridge Project Annex for tea, or a glass of fizz – both […]
Who I am and what I do.
I finished the first painting in the series that I am doing at the moment. I am really happy with the outcome it was a little different than a planned as I had planned to paint the middle on the […]
AUDIOBLOG – Please click here In my last post, I wrote of the state of flow… The ultimate creative state. In this post I write of the least creative, the most frustrating and yet the other end of the duties […]
Urgent whispers ricochet in skull&ribcage, hissed missiles: Why do you bring me back, over and over again? One moment it’s my father speaking, who I drag backwards&forwards in time, without a by-his-leave; the next it is I, compelled to return […]
Today I went to see the Warhol show at Tate Liverpool. I have watched a documentary on Warhol before so the show was pretty much what I had expected but it was enjoyable to see so many of his works […]
