Experiment 3 – What happens when I use wax on perspex? I like the opportunities perspex creates in providing a front and back support, as well as utilising its transparent qualities. I was curious about how encausic would react on […]
Almost a week without working and although I feel better for it, I’m starting to get a little restless. Blowing my hard earned cash, I had another exhibition filled trip yesterday, heading towards ‘that’ London. It was quite tiring cramming […]
Been reading ‘Phototherapy and Therapeutic Photography in a Digital Age’ (Ed Del Loewenthal) this week – the book was kindly suggested by fellow a-n blogger Rodney Dee (www.a-n.co.uk/p/2422257) who is studying for an MA in Art Psychotherapy at Roehampton. I […]
Well, I did a little bit of proper thinking. I’m not too sure that it has got me very far. I drew a flow chart, plotted all my bits of work…. This was the map to find my way through […]
Busy ‘work’ week this week so very little time for play. I looked up a lot when walking the dog to keep in touch with the bigger picture. I managed a couple of hours early Monday morning which really paid […]
Trinity Gallery, Tunbridge Wells
4 – 10 August 2013
Art Everywhere (I’m in a foul mood) If there’s an unsaid rule about blogging that we all should apply, with no exception, not rushing a post will be this one. And guess what? That’s exactly what I’m about to do! […]
I am grateful to inspiration (the muse/my muse) for my progress so far. My drawings and ideas are changing/growing and running well ahead of the speed at which I can produce work, but that’s all to the good I’m sure. […]
For the third of our features looking at summer shows across the UK, we talk to 2009 Turner Prize nominee Lucy Skaer about her Mount Stuart commission, a series of poetic and precise interventions in this neo-gothic house on the Isle of Bute.
ANGRY ANKLE I’m feeling very angry this morning, mainly at myself for being in this disabled position but also at what I am learning about the world while I am in this situation. What am I learning? People will readily […]
In putting together my next series of Creative Conversations it has been really interesting who will go on the record and talk to me with my recorder between us. Again I find it is the artists who are happy to […]
FLAG WAVING AND GETTING ON THE RADAR It’s the most thankless task; promoting one’s own work. It seems somehow wrong, like… surely there must be a department for that? Although I have had many years of hard-nosed commercial experience to […]
Experiment 2 – What happens when I avoid figuration? My work is representational; I think maily because I subconsciously view abstraction as losing control.However, I am coming to realise that by removing conscious control, it is possible to learn new […]
Dovedale is one of the most scenic places in Derbyshire. It is also one of the most popular tourist areas and has been since tourists first went there in the 18thC. With this in mind we set off early and […]
Is it wrong to get excited about storage units? Work has begun to convert the units I inherited from the college where I taught into something more practical for a damp, dirty studio space in a farm building. The guys […]
The visual arts, collaboration and experimentation will be on the agenda at this weekend’s Supernormal festival in rural Oxfordshire. We speak to Sam Francis about her curated programme focussing on gender roles in the realms of art and music.
The UK-wide Art Everywhere project, which sees art on billboards and posters across the country, has been launched at an event in Shepherd’s Bush, London.
Judy Thomas pays tribute to the Newcastle upon Tyne-based artist Andrea MJ Toth, who sadly passed away on 14 July following a two and a half year battle with breast cancer.
