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What follows is the next part of my thinking relating to why I came to be the artist I am today – which I’d stored offline a week ago, wondering if I’d post it. I have done. It’s about having […]

This next post is the last of my ‘looking back and wondering why I do this stuff’ ones. I wrote it a few days ago. Understanding myself is my only reason to exist. Understanding all of you I will never […]

Yesterday, I had a conversation with my partner about how I communicate. I’ve been thinking about that a great deal lately, since uni life requires much communication – as does running an art gallery (so I’ve found!). I have always […]

The whole issue of ageing and the passing of time is pertinent to the sorting process. There’s nothing like opening up a box full of vintage Oor Wullie and Schoolgirl annuals, or a suitcase full of retro hats and clothing, […]

13th February 2014 Acetate While editing images using Photoshop I can’t help but start to think about how I would go about presenting my photographs in the degree show. I know it is still early and my ideas are changing […]

15th February 2014 Greenscreen Practice I have now started to experiment with a few images I have taken using the green screen in Photoshop. Unsure of exactly how to edit out the green screen from the main image; I immediately […]

18th February 2014 Photoshop Research After further research into using Green-screens and Chromakeying within photo editing I thought it would be best to do a post on exactly what I learned. Both green and blue screens are used in photo […]

22nd February 2014 Morph Suits for Photo editing I have ordered two morphsuits one black and one blue. Morphsuits are tight full body costumes normally made out of a spandex mix. So that the human form is kept almost perfectly […]

1st march 2014 Lizzie and Fee edits using Colour range After further research into Photoshop and greenscreening I have discovered an efficient and effective way of removing all the green from the image without affecting the image I want to […]

4th march 2014 Vanishing points and perspective After finally figuring out how to remove the greenscreen I was then able to easily play around with a few images trying to get them to fit into different scenes. However, with some […]

10th March 2014 Unusable images The images in this post are unusable for the intentions I have, they don’t look right to my eyes due to technical errors in my work which I am working towards being able to remove […]

15th March 2014 Lizzie and fee background Here are a few images I have been working on for now I have ignored the slight lack of perspective and tried to make them look as natural as possible in their chosen […]

24th march 2014 Display Idea – Series After editing the set of images in the previous post and thinking ahead about the nearing degree show I am beginning to wonder about how I am going to display my pieces. I […]

24th March 2014 Display Idea – Scale. Another way of displaying my images would be one or two life size or larger than life sized images. This idea would work best if I take a high resolution photo for the […]

24th March 2014 Display Idea – Scale. Another way of displaying my images would be one or two life size or larger than life sized images. This idea would work best if I take a high resolution photo for the […]

A fortnight in Southend I’ve been awarded a Time and Space residency at METAL in Southend and I go next Monday. This means that I get a fortnight of (unpaid) research time away from home, but it does mean that […]

After thinking about what I thought worked and didn’t work from my previous art work I decided to try and work with layering images to see how this looked before I put it into a video formation. The image I […]

good morning. the blossom is exquiste, i picked a huge bunch and the fragrance drifts through my kitchen. stuggling to find images that fit the requirements but im goning on. so here is another image for the day.

The paragraph below in bold is a few sentences taken from my dissertation. I am looking back and joining to my studio practice in areas where there are strong links. English Critic, John Berger in ‘Ways of Seeing’ talks about […]

Referring to post 2. please read or refer to post 2 first, Glass Bottles I wrote ideas, the date and time that I had on to individual piece’s of rizzla, one idea per bottle. I then screwed the rizzla up […]

‘Dacia’ the title of one of my largest pieces is named after the first Romanian settlement 100 years BC before the birth of Romania, my native country. The painting is composed of imagined archaic shapes, relics, fossils and hybrid forms […]

Hamish Fulton- Dissertation Links The bold paragraphs of text are extracts taken from my dissertation. Hamish Fulton is a walking artist whose articulations towards the natural environment are strongly influenced by the physical aspects of the walks he takes and […]

Going back to the last few posts, I talked about Hambling’s installation ‘War Requiem’. I mentioned about doing a video of my textured self-portrait and I have now created one and uploaded it to youtube. The video is 3 minutes […]