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My degree show is up and final assessment done. The last year has been extremely difficult, but like most things in life with the most pain, comes the most gain. I feel as though my work has developed more in […]

Set Up Ideas I have thought a lot recently about how I want to exhibit my work. In an ideal world I would have free reign of the studio and put up work however and wherever I wanted- but for […]

Actually I think writing a blog will be a very good thing as, unlike Facebook where you inflict all your boring ramblings on your poor friends, who haven’t figured out how to change their preferences to remove your posts from […]

Day 4 I had planned to stay an extra couple of days after Kerri and Alison but there was a mix up with accommodation. Instead of sharing with the US crew the only rooms available were big and more expensive. […]

In image 5, I have Added some more grey emulsion paint to the papiermarched areas and flicked some paint in the central section. In Image 6, I used oil stick in blue, light blue and white to draw lines curling […]

as an undergraduate i watched many videos of artist’s work and their practices. one i watched was by tracy emin. what she said about all undergraduate work being about identity as that’s all they knew struck a sideways chord with […]

I’m getting closer to starting my Community Artist in Residence, hopefully by the end of June. Many thanks to RBKC and the V&A Museum for working out the logistics of establishing a studio space at 7 Shalfleet Drive. This is […]

Looking Different I’m thinking about slowing down, normally associated with ‘getting old’ – check – but in this instance taking more time to really look. The artwork is slow-burn and needs ‘different’ eyes to process its qualities (which are partly […]

Samantha Keely smith Samantha Keely Smiths work is very atmospheric. It is about the border between dreams and reality. Her images are all imagined, not copied or from life. They are unknown landscapes which remind one of the sea or […]

Gustav Metzger I came across this artist when i walked past a poster of his exhibition, neon greens and pinks were shouting out at me and forced me to stop and take a closer look. This particular exhibition was called […]

Continuing and strengthening… More than a month has passed and has brought me many new experiences and work. I have been fully involved in collaborative project Encounters Shop, created by Ruth Ben Tovim and currently set in Andover for its […]

Degree Show Prep For my degree show im making 3 circles out of MDF, as any circle canvases bought online are expensive and not big enough, i also thought 3 is a good number because they would fit well in […]

Somewhat spontaneously I went to the graduation ceremony at school yesterday. I am very glad that I went. Not only was it a pleasure to celebrate the graduates’ achievements, it was a pleasure to attend a ceremony that was so […]

BETWEEN THE PHYSICAL AND THE UNPERCEIVABLE After a visit to the 55th Venice Biennale in 2013 I experienced Marc Quinn’s gigantic inflatable sculpture of a disembodied women gazing with purple eyes over the water from the not so distant island […]

CRAFTY DENSITY One week to the degree show. So many things have happened. Failures and heart aches. Pain and hardship. All in all, the three tumultuous years at UCS are about to come to an end. You think that the […]

The Hanging is all done…well nearly… I hung my exhibition today, everything went well except for a few hiccups with a few screws not doing as they were told. And the rain… the rain that came down in Yoxford at […]

My deadline might be here on Monday but I had to paint today and I’ve strarted something I want to continue after the degree show, as a continuation from this project. I was so excited seeing my work up and […]

Final Reflection My final pieces are up and I feel very proud to see my degree show in progress. Over the past six months working towards this very moment, I have grown into the artist I always imagined myself to […]

It’s about confidence isn’t it? Or maybe I mean bullshit? A couple of years ago, I had very little on my cv, so put everything on it, hoping that volume of words would speak for me, would fool people, but […]

Final days of set up. So i have found just recently that i do not entirely enjoy working with technology. After five attempts i managed to get the dvd to work correctly in my dvd player. Now my video works […]

Wow what a day! As William and I arrived at 8.30 am at Uni we saw the enormous delivery truck from Ipswich Plastics waiting by the woodwork studio… We took the four acrylic sheets upstairs and spent a long time […]

Ideas behind Degree show paintings. I want to paint a non-typical image of the sea. They will be imagined images, so are not copied from any reference. I want my paintings to be an impression of the sea, or feelings […]

Why I paint the way I do My process has been hindered due to the MDF. I would usually work with a lot more water. But because I am now conscious of how easily they can bow my approach therefore […]