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Bryan Holland Artist Bryan Holland creates intriguing paintings and collage works by juxtaposing styles from various eras. Many of his works have a retro quality that reminds one of the bygone days of billboard painting as an art form. Glossy […]

Sculpture Almost Finished After taking my time to think upon my sculpture and decide on the nest way to tackle it. I have plastered it in images of beagles in testing labratories, beagles injured/dead, beagles being rescued and protests by […]

My work has evolved over the last year from landscape based printing to abstract textural works using natural materials and multi media influences. I have found great inspiration from the outside world and the things I can use from out […]

My initial intention is to create a piece of work that is visually and perhaps physically sufficient enough in its wholeness to sustain an interest from a viewer. Through the materials of wood and rope I have begun to explore […]

The crit ended up going very well at the end, considering that I had like less than 24 hours to make something. I love the challenge of crits, everytime a new opportunity to do something else, something different and hopefully […]

(Continues from previous post) Keywords/references for this work are: Arte Povera and Expressionism movements, puppetry, Comedia dell’Arte, handmade & readymade, stage-like, Theatre of the Absurd, carnivalesque and grotesque aesthetics, whimsical?, scattological quality, performance, study on geometrical form and colour composition, […]

Sometimes, blogging can be very frustrating, because you are unable to talk about things as they happen, when you are feeling them most sharply. But, when the dust settles, you then see things more clearly! I have this morning resigned […]

Over the past week, I have been planning for future projects and applying for various opportunities. I have spent a lot of time with my head down, on the computer, which feels very virtuous. I visited Bolton last week to […]

April marked the official launch of the SEA, SKY AND STONE project – a plan to combine art, geology and astronomy drawings into one new book project and move my studio to the Yorkshire coast. Fully funded in under 72 […]

I seem to have been doing all kinds of things in the past week – and seen a lot of people. On the 25th and 26th April I was accepting works for our annual Open art exhibition. We had 92 […]

The day of four popes, and two new saints. I found this work titled Sanctae by artist Lone Rucquoi. They are portraits of secular saints part of a photographic Installation using female nudes,friends ,neighbours, real women using historical and religious […]

Am I drawing 24/7? It feels like it at the moment. This week I’ve concentrated on taking my work to the extremes of dark and light – and continuing to explore the possibilities for 3D. I have 11 days to […]

Some of the themes my work looks at include tension, anxiety, adversity, the therapeutic qualities to be found in art, the confessional, use of text in painting, and also contains a strong autobiographical element. I looked at Louise Bourgeois, Tracey […]

Water has always been involved in my work somehow, whether it’s a painting inspired by ripples and reflections, or the use of water on the canvas to react with the paint. I feel that one of the reasons I am […]

So having given up on failure and taken up with SUCCESS I find myself at a loss at what to write – a fish out of water, lost in a new land……. Briefly I must introduce my new career as […]

I was commissioned to write this text to mark 10 years working together for fabricators Plenderleith Scantlebury. ‘One of the perks of being an artist based in one of the most populated artist studios in the country is the wealth […]