Now it’s not that I don’t like art, some of my best friends are artists, it’s just that sometimes the art goes a bit too far… in the direction of strange, confusing and a frankly bit dull. I found the […]
Working progress of a practicing artist with an interest in texture, surface and atmosphere.
For the first time I am working simultaneously in two and three dimensions where the work in both dimensions feeds into each other. It feels at last that things are coming together. Whilst making the three dimensional representations of the […]
Creating replicas or versions of the figurine is revealing. Over the last year or so I have been attempting to express ideas about autobiography and the past by making drawings and paintings of objects with personal significance. I am currently […]
Peter Gabriel I’ve loved him since about 1975. My love for others has waxed and waned, but Peter has stayed. As a teenager in the seventies I seemed to move without a hiccup from Bowie to Genesis and Pink Floyd […]
I had a good meeting with Lynn the other day and we discussed the visits we made to Greenham Common and the sound edit I had forwarded recently to Lynn. we talked about how the images (or darkness on the […]
You have to hand it to him – two and a half hours or so of medium paced observations based on the guys later years…No obvious plot; a little artistic license with historical detail, and what have you got? A […]
I’ve been having a bit of a rant (I know! SO unlike me!) And my friend Nicki, mentioned in a previous post said I should blog it. I am no fool. I know she said this just to shut me […]
For this blog post you need to know that my father was José Garcia Lora and that this was my family name. There’s been a gap in blogging. This happens when life takes over. So it’s been since taking Without […]
i’m getting better with applying opportunities. i’ve learnt the benefit of putting the application together early and spending time editting and refining. this is in the majority down to my dyslexia. it’s also in part due to finding opportunities to […]
Kelly Best and Georgie Grace have been selected for Jerwood Encounters: 3-Phase – a year-long artist development opportunity with exhibitions at Eastside Projects, Jerwood Space and g39.
This Saturday, Newcastle upon Tyne’s Globe Gallery is hosting a celebratory night of ‘audio visual stimulation’ to mark the closure of its current space – and a move to pastures new.
Today I saw some art, which I think was really needed, as the overall overload of information yesterday made me doubt how I could make that translate into Art, but seeing Art always provides inspiration. I first went to 50 […]
A local studio runs bronze casting workshops so I am going to learn about that process. I have made another figure that is more compact and simple in shapes, ideal for a first try at the process. Kathryn Raffell, 2014, […]
I have submitted this week my first proposal as part of an exhibition at the Potteries museum, Stoke on Trent as part of The Artist and The City show which is currently on within the Museum and in conjunction with […]
Re:view // Re:consider// Re:appear I received funding for a series of mentoring sessions with Rachel Anderson, producer of collaborative projects at Artangel http://www.artangel.org.uk I hoped the mentoring would enable me to evaluate and consider the place of my large […]
Just been given this poem by Paula, the archivist Time present and time past Are both perhaps present in time future, And time future contained in time past. If all time is eternally present All time is unredeemable. What might […]
John Smith’s latest film installation, White Hole, a continuation of his Film London Jarman Award commission, opens at The Gallery, Tyneside Cinema’s new artists’ moving image space.
Kathryn Raffell, 2014, Untitled, clay, 15cmx5cm. My studies have moved to exploring the figure in sculptural form. In response to the female nudes that Jenny Saville paints. I have sculpted a voluptious female form in clay. Kathryn Raffell, 2014, Untitled, […]
A report into the Glasgow School of Art fire has confirmed that the fire was started when inflammable gases from a foam canister were ignited – and that a new fire suppression system was not operational at the time of the blaze.
So glad to say my hands have much of their mojo back. Coffee gets poured into cups and not next to, I can hold and not drop, and crocheting is a natural part of my (still mostly supine) day again. […]
I think I might be suffering from overstimulation. When I got here yesterday I was so excited but I think now I’ve almost had enough. All the coloured lights at night time look amazing but also it’s a bit crazy […]
