A good old fashioned list is how I get through a busy day. Tick off and get things done. I make sure the whole day can fit on to one post it (achievable) and the list may also have scheduled […]
I have been working on this painting today, I think it is finished, at least for now. I have continued to work in an automatic way, allowing my unconcious to speak, I have tried to create a flow between my […]
Taking some time to see what rises to the surface since returning from Jamestown NY a couple of weeks ago, and through reflecting talking with family friends and fellow artists, I’ve realised that its the conversation and relationships which are […]
CONTINUED FROM LAST POST A couple of days in to our stay, Deb told me she thought I would find much in common with her Jamestown Community College colleague and friend Shannon Bessette, (Debra is art professor there). Shannon is […]
Over the Easter break I have had some of my paintings framed and done more work on two of my canvas paintings (with a view to choosing some of this work for my final degree show). I’ve also had time […]
I’ve been thinking about how best to present some of my photography in my degree show and have decided to make a book. This will be a story told by images and few words. The images will be drawn from […]
The distant Horizon – Painting Today I compleated two acrylic wash painting’s that I have been working on over the last ten days. I feel that they have developed well through the experimenting and application of wash applied, using both […]
On wednesday 23rd april,at UCS, I met with Matt the film technicain who worked with me and showed me how to edit 3 small films made of the shoreline sea sky and horizon, I edited parts not nessesary and linked […]
I am working with a filmmaker and we decided, for our first venture, to do a documentary about The Ceramic House. Another filmmaker friend has been conscientiously documenting, through film, all the previous exhibitions at The Ceramic House over the […]
I’m so pumped up right now! (Lego movie got to me…) I’ve just been to see Matisse’s cut-outs at Tate Modern (see Blue Peter’s coverage of it here, skip to 12 minutes in http: //www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b041dx8c/Blue_Peter_Matisse_Elyar_Fox_and_LifeSaving_Dogs/) Goldie has also had a […]
Investigations into the verasity of surface by Alex Dipple and Josh Redman. Commencing May-July Supported by a bursary from a-n The Artist Information Company.
It’s so good to be reminded I am on the right track. I will write about how as an artist I’m able to survive, what I’m involved in, process and evaluation. So yes although I create works, exhibit nationally & […]
Returning for its second year, this weekend’s London Gallery Day brings together more than 20 contemporary art spaces in the city’s EC1 and WC1 areas for a packed programme of exhibitions and events.
Now on its sixth edition, The Other Art Fair has a selection committee made up of artists and provides a platform for emerging talent to present and sell their work. Director Ryan Stanier explains its approach.
I have finished printing my 90 flowers! Some of these I printed onto wet Somerset paper and some onto dry. Where the paper was dry I also splattered water so it made the silkscreen inks bleed and this effect was […]
I have been writing the last chapter of my dissertation and came accross a few quotes from a texton Ana Mendieta which I feel are relevant to my degree project and studio practice. “I am an artist who feels that […]
Inspired by the costumes of Louise Borgeois, Pablo Picasso and the Triadic Ballet by Oskar Schlemmer I start experimenting with the lampshades as costumes. Their shapes and how they adjust to my body remind me of shields and shells… I […]
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Everything is packed and ready to go to my Pop Up Blossom Studio at Derby Quad.Long lists have all been checked and ticked and I’m just hoping I have got everything I will need. The idea behind providing a Pop […]
La comedienne (The comedian), 2014 Coloured pencil Four drawings of the series of photographs created with the lampshades. I like the deadpan of the expressions, the absurdity, the body languague. The movement was restrained with the lampshades, does this want […]
It’s carnival time in my studio.NOTE: Not sure why images are horizontal Mikhail Bakhtin’s four categories of the carnivalistic sense of the world: 1. Familiar and free interaction between people: carnival often brought the unlikely of people together and encouraged […]
“There is no greater sorrowThan to recall a happy timeWhen miserable.” ― Dante Alighieri “Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.” ― Marcel Proust “We are homesick most for the places we have […]
