Young children are kinesthetic learners. They think by moving. They learn by touching and pushing and hearing the sound things make when they’re dropped or knocked over. Taking young children to a gallery can be a trial for all concerned. […]
Now reviewing my work since January. 14th Jan Some methods (ie working with paper on wall) making me more self-conscious. 21st Jan Quite a simple way of working with paint and pencil. Brushes,finger, pencil, knife being used. 23rd Jan Painting […]
2nd May 2014 After a break while we were both doing other projects, Frances and I have been getting together again to discuss making a limited edition book of the prints that we made from the tablecloth. We are both […]
February 3rd I wrote about what I have been trying to do ‘Finding ways to respond and learning how to push what I am doing so hard that I fail, go past a critical point in the process and discover […]
The Paying Artists Campaign, which will launch in May with its own designated website, intends to engage the arts-going public in the debate around artists’ value and fair remuneration for work.
Art students from Edinburgh, Leeds and Ghent form collective practice to deconstruct value systems of art in a fair of their own at Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh.
Am I writing this post because I feel motivated or does writing this post motivate me? I’m not missing the MA course as such since it finished but I am missing something — I feel somewhat directionless. Perhaps it’s because […]
TODAY IS THE DAY! Fantastic Tales opens tonight. It’s all falling into place. 11 out of 16 Danish artists will be here for the opening (10 are coming over from Denmark especially to be here). Way to much to do […]
Construction Project Day #21 Even thought I switched the lights completely out yesterday, I have re-introduced just one for today. Not because I feel totally attached, but because I thought that the one white striplight may add something to the […]
John Constable Whilst recently visiting the beautiful countryside of Dedham/ Flatford, I thought it was essential to look at the work of traditional English painter John Constable. Constables traditional style although not similar to mine, is of huge interest to […]
I only encounter my dad’s young self through photographs, and yet over the last few months the face I knew directly has been overlaid with the one in the images I study, so that, when I happened to look at […]
After many weeks of putting off my knitting, i decided to sit and just get it done. I had lost the enthusiasm to do it until now. Once complete i stitched the three pieces together using ribbon so that it […]
Just a couple of shorts videos put into one file of George entertaining himself upon my work.
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 […]
