My tutors have suggested that I look at Patrick Caulfield as an example of an artist who paints simplified images with limited colours, and hihlights specific points of his compositions, either with colour or pattern which is excluded in the […]
Last night on the radio I heard Andrew Motion speak of his time as Poet Laureate. He was asked about the challenges as well as the advantages and he spoke of the trouble the creative soul has in respect of […]
While researching for my dissertation, I came across a critic who wrote of the interiors of artist Rosson Crow: ….these places lack any structural coherence necessary to labelling them as true ‘interiors’. Each scene offers an amalgam of collaged perspectives, […]
Black Monday, Black April. A two pronged, vicious attack on the welfare state yesterday :The Health and Social Care Act , pushing the final nail in the coffin in the NHS through privatisation. A London GP writes ‘People will die […]
Ha Ha! Who am I trying to kid? I knew it wouldn’t last long! Elena Thomas only has enough words for one blog? No chance. Anyway… I have decided I need some decent photos of my work for my website, […]
These are pictures of the work that I made for my last crit in December. It didn’t work out really well, the “monster” looked really floppy as its body was made with some fabric stuffed with old clothes. It was […]
I’m feeling curious again about expression and how I can describe emotion in my work. I thought these two women had very charateristic features and I found them somehow hilariuosly funny. I thought this could be a good excercise to […]
This is how I feel at the moment with my blog. I’m sorry if the continuity hasn’t been kept and I jump between blogs rescuing thoughts, results, plans from previous months!
It’s almost upon me. Almost ish… I’ve another 16 days to be precise, but I’ve given myself another 10 days to finish this last painting that I might want to hang. Not a great deal of time granted. I’m going […]
UPDATE to Patchgate. Have located 7 patches so far. Have reprimed said 7 patches so far. Windsor & Newton linen canvas… You are my prison bitch. I GOT THIS! *eye twitch*
After finally submitting my Degree Show space proposal/ethics/risk assessment forms just before Easter it seems the count down has begun (how ominous). This blog will hopefully provide a record of my progress which I will be able to look back […]
The flash in the distance.
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I’m currently on a three week visit to Zhejiang University as part of the Study China Programme, organised by Manchester University. I had set up a word press blog to document my visit but I can’t access it here. Neither […]
Still freezing here in Wales, so we have not been able to get to the site. I have instead made a simple mock-up of the project idea. I’m sure it will be much more complex and change as we make […]
On editing AR-Men (dance piece) Shape Movement Choreography Intimacy Retelling A story Performance A R MEN ———————— Perfect Male Beauty: Does it take Two to make One? ———————— My eyes know which moment they want to capture but my finger […]
“I test the limits of myself in order to transform myself” “To be a performance artist, you have to hate the theatre. Theatre is fake…The knife is not real, the blood is not real, and the emotions are not real. […]
The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: (From A to B and Back Again) (1975): I know a girl who just looks at her face in the medicine cabinet mirror and never looks below her shoulders, and she’s four or five hundred […]
Sporting League: Game 35 Results Red Star stunned the Pointeso crowd with an injury time equaliser against the champions elect. Red Star boss: ‘Our players will always fight until the bitter end, I got the feeling that was something that […]
Extract found in Poetics of Imaginining Kearney, R. “every corner in a house, every angle in a room, every inch of secluded space in which we like to hide, or withdraw into ourselves is a symbol of solitude for the […]
“One of Judd’s main interests was space. Once he had discovered, in the early 1960’s that space provided him with more possibilities than the two-dimensional canvas, he made it a central subject of his work.” (Stockebrand, 2011:6) -Am becoming more […]
An artist friend of mine who knows me pretty well, both on a personal and a professional level, reminded me a few weeks ago how much happier I am in myself when I stick to a routine as far as […]
