sometime before Christmas last year i started following niall Doherty ‘s round the world journey. his modus operandi is not to fly. i found him by chance, after researching living with little or no possessions. niall’s journey is an easy […]
Dejeuner sur l’herbe- Edouard Manet. 1863,oil on canvas. This is the picture that scandalized Persian art lovers, turning Manet into an overnight celebrity. Manet took the overall concept of the painting from Concert Champetre (Rustic Concert) a famous picture in […]
I’ve opted out of tonight’s gallery debate https://www.facebook.com/events/613377488745517/ I really have gone out of my comfort zone for a few things here, but a debate is a step too far for me. I’ll leave it to the ‘experts’. It’s kind […]
This first image is one I am rather fond of, I’m thinking about blowing them up to a larger scale with the outside images in black and white as the are origionaly anyway being that they are from the late […]
I began doodling and drawing over my passport images, and found myself like some of my previous work from a while ago taking the eyes out of the image. Thus making the image go from a standard clear portrait with […]
Like most people whenever im bored and have a newspaper or magazine to hand I find images of people and doodle other them, which I have done with some more of my passport images. It brings an element of wonder […]
Somewhere in the shadows This painting originated from a random photo I took as I was walking somewhere round London. I can’t recall what day it was and where I was going or even the time of day. It must […]
Folly stones. thank you to all that came on saturday for the launch of ‘furiously mad’ it was a fantastic day! i missed most of it because i was giving folly stone information sessions for 3 solid hours. the folly […]
Artist Research- Barnet Newman Barnet Newman was an American abstract colour field painter, who worked a lot on large scale paintings For example his Vir Heroicus Sublimis measures 2.422 x 5.136 m, which really is vast. In his 1948 paper […]
I have started to talk about what I would like to do for the degree show with my lecturers. I am trying to create an atmosphere rather than just hanging my photos on their own on display. My first idea […]
My second idea for my degree show is to project my images onto the water within the bath. Obviously a projection onto clear water would not work; I have been experimenting with making the water white so that it would […]
Back to circles “Halos” for me. Still thinking about the circle containing a Identity. Here are some Images I made with the use of hula hoops.
Looking at Composition Lately I’ve been a bit preoccupied with the size of my work -how large or small I should make the canvas and what affect that would have on the viewer. Now I would like to talk a […]
Composition Continued….. These three images were originally intended to go in my ‘Masking tape” post, showing how much the tape bled and pulled off the paint. However after looking through these images I started to realise how interesting they were […]
Once a month blogging isn’t really what I had in mind when setting out but while this time stuff insists on moving along at a record pace, it will just have to do I guess. A month block is far […]
Video painting The process of this painting was slightly different, as I filmed each layer, (approx 8-10 layers). I also used a new medium by Liquitex, which stopped the colours from blurring into one another. This combined with not using […]
The artwork titled ‘Diamonds Never Die’ was influenced by my love of ‘James Bond’ movies I grew up watching. Inspired by the opening credits to each film (silhouette montage). This is what I wanted to capture when painting my own […]
An extremely influential artist to me is ‘Banksy’. I enjoy the cleverness of his work, and the statements he makes using spray-paint. Using the suburban landscape as his canvas, he sneakily portrays his work in secret. Many of his works […]
The work (Untitled 2012) is also in a similar fashion to Banksy. This was an etch I printed prior to adding the Coca-Cola can on top using acrylic paint. The reason I chose the Coca-Cola can was because of its […]
I really enjoy scanning some of my artworks onto the computer and playing with them on different art editing programmes. This gives me the chance to play around with filters and colours, and to also view my artwork in a […]
This artwork (Untitled 2014) is part of my current studio practise. I did a lot of research on Walt Disney and this showed many different messages and metaphors within his work that I found quite surprising. There was racist stereotyping […]
This artwork (Untitled 2014) was another step I had previously worked on for the Disney concept. I originally sketched and inked out the form of the work. I had the idea of portraying Snow White as a film star offset, […]
I’ve been reflecting on the role this blog has played for me. The blog has helped me greatly to stop and reflect on previous work so that I can learn from past strengths and weaknesses. For example I consider my […]
My Latest painting: The first Stages In my latest painting I have been really conscious over the composition. This is my largest painting of this kind to date and I didn’t want it to end up my other largish paintings- […]
Time is going really quickley and everyday there are small panics and moments of elation as the work takes shape. After a time of confusion and sorting things out in German my fabric hardener arrived this week. I felt quite […]