Construction Project Day #12 Today in the studio I decided to STRIP it down to just my fluorescent lamps, using them to make shapes of light in an attempt to simplify my arrangements and build sculptures from them as formal […]
I have made 80 paintings this year so far and plan to make 285 more. http://threehundredandsixtyfivepaintings.wordpress…
Liquidtex When trying to ‘embed’ my YouTube video into a previous post, I spotted an interesting image on the side of the webpage. It was a link to a video of someone painting, and they were using particular mediums. Liquidtex […]
Purple painting, I have done some more work on my A2 (ish) size purple painting This one has maybe more layers than Twilight zone, as whenever I’m waiting for something to dry on a bigger more important painting, this is […]
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I decided to paint my friend Anna because whilst I was in a really calm state of mind and was in the mood to paint I wanted to paint an emotion that reflects on this. I took a photo of […]
With the idea of using certain tools to express my emotion I thought I should start a textured portrait of myself and see what happens. The day I started the portrait I felt quite angry and frustrated and I wanted […]
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I have been carving away in the woodwork room creating different wooden shapes. I have tried to make these wooden structures interesting, and have used simple geometric shapes. Also there has been a large incorporation of thick hemp decking rope, […]
Exploring Colour in the Abstract My latest painting is an extension of exploring the concept of paint pallets. I have tried to recreate the effect of various paint pallets within one painting, with the hope that this would help me […]
Back to Reality. Looking back to my previous blog I was about to embark on a realist work in oil on canvas. The image I have used is a still from video footage of a homeless American man during an […]
Continuing painting… I think my painting is progressing well, though I think I’ve hit a bit of a dead end. I often work on a painting until everything that I think should be changed is- this isn’t, so far as […]
Last week I started painting on a canvas I had in my studio space. I started painting and after a while I decided I wasn’t happy with how it was looking. So I left it for a few hours and […]
After the feedback from my previous self portrait, I decided to paint another one on a slightly bigger scale and try not to make drastic decisions, and just see what happens when painting something completely textured. What I first done […]
I recently went to London and the Tate Modern to see the collection of minimalist work that they have including the work of Donald Judd, the focus of my dissertation. Although I have seen the work of several of the […]
I am my own experiment! I have been researching into how memory works with regard to shaping our identities. Today I made studies of an object that I have ‘known’ all my life – a ceramic figure of a little […]
As part of its New Art Spaces project, Manchester’s Castlefield Gallery has opened its biggest space yet, across a six-storey, 80,000 square feet building in the centre of the city. We pay it a visit and find out what makes it more than just another artists’ studio complex.
A little over a week ago ‘Shelf Life’ – my solo exhibition at Gage Gallery, Sheffield – came to an end. I have had a fair few group shows prior to this, but I would say that ‘Shelf Life’ was […]
one aspect of applying for opportunities is unsuccess. it’s something we all know and all accept. in the beginning it’s all too easy to get down about it. this morning over on the corridor arts Facebook profile channel i saw […]
The Public Art Debate A couple of weeks ago I went to The Public Art Debate at Turner in Margate……..I have just found a video of it on the internet and it was so uninspiring then…… and even more so […]
Workman, chains, scaffolding, churning up the space and stillness. I sit and watch poles and planks come down, to reveal again the stone skin. I cannot hide today. I absorb myself in cutting. Long strips of paper, a ritual, like […]
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Is there such a thing as font snobbery? Heated debates abounded today. It’s such a difficult thing when it just doesn’t feel right. I mean, you don’t want to offend and say’ don’t like it’, but if we’d just gone […]
The past few months have seen me relocate from rural Suffolk to city life in the north east. I am travelling a lot, returning to Suffolk as I complete my degree at UCS. I have been working on a couple […]
I’m in a thinking phase now. Last week I was mostly on a train to or from Manchester Piccadilly setting up, being at, and dismantling our group exhibition w0budong. As a result of talking with Sue Gough (
