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So many questions this week. How do I get these budgies back into the cage? Why do some people still think a mullet (the haircut, not the fish) is a good idea, and why do so many of them live […]

This week I have been doing lots of housekeeping, sorting through all the images of my past work because I want to update and reorganise my Axis pages. I’m also trying to work out what I need from a personal […]

Hello! Thought it would be a good idea to post some of my work from A/W term which I am still finding helpful/influential. My method of creating these images comes from rapidly drawing the portrait without looking at the page […]

A couple of weeks ago I altered the blog heading to read “…Year 3…”. All was well, we had a student for each block and the life model was ready and willing. I filled in my application form for access […]

Ceremonial Happenings On-going work with New Caledonian Woodlands adult group in Edinburgh. I had brought an 8 metre long interface fabric and wax pastels for the group to design rubbings of the natural environment and found objects. As the group […]

A comment just made on my facebook page brought back the ‘fun’ side of the Stockholm trip. I’d been moaning so much in the last couple of days about being tired and that my back ached, that people were starting […]

Martin Lewis is making experimental wall drawings in response to the Exhibition Space. Beautiful sensitive white lines on grey rectangles which sing quietly in the space changing with the light and shadows. I’m hoping we have a good turnout for […]

I’ve been enjoying playing with cyanotypes over the last few days. The paper was in a Sigur Ros box-set to promote their new live album ‘Inni’ that I was given for Christmas. Once the photos have been made you can […]

I have been busy preparing 3 of my drawing screens this week; projecting the drawing up onto the wall to draw up the transparent positive for exposing, retouching the lines on the lightbox and finally getting them onto the screens […]

Hey, so my paintings are shaping up a bit now. I had originally aimed to have around thirty large paintings to choose from to have in my final show but for a number of reasons I think I will aim […]

Today has been a series of experiments on the piano with the music: ‘I dont like Mondays’… Well, actually it started off with me getting half way through the tune and then forgetting the key signature a few times in […]

I painted a friend who i don’t see everyday yesterday. I am still hoping to go onto painting strangers, but to start with it’s best working with people who i am acquainted with whilst i compose and prepare myself for […]

One of the most thrilling elements of studying at MA level is that you have a wider appreciation and awareness of access to a wider talk and seminar programme at the University. My University, The University of Manchester, programmes a […]

I have noticed that whenever I have to define what medium I use; that I am a painter, I can’t help but add some kind of disclaimer. For example in my last post ‘working predominately (but not exclusively) as a […]

Perfect mix! This looks like a great event! Sunday Soup and Other Ways to Feed Culture / Friday 24th February An introduction to alternative economic models and collaborative practices in times of decreasing mainstream funding. More info here: http://www.publicartonline.org.uk/whatsnew/trainin…

just had a call from the gallery to say that I’ve been successfull in the Lynn Painters-Stainers Prize 2012 here in London with this painting….more later

I’m feeling in quite a productive mood this week, partly helped by having made a timetable outlining what I want to have done by the end of each week… it’s forced me to do those tasks I keep putting off! […]

Last summer I had a good run of drawing and making that enabled me to feel confident about what I was doing. And rather naively I thought that feeling would continue.. At the moment I seem unable to organise uninterrupted […]

This is the third and final of my proposals for the three wishes project. It is also closest to the work that I am planning at the moment. The first two paragraphs come from one of my previous blogs, so […]

Well, the applications have gone off and receipt confirmed. So now just a waiting game, I guess. In the Arts Council’s email they’re obviously trying to prepare me for the worst…’October – December 2011 only 44% of eligible applications received […]

Well I have finally got my own Twitter account, not just the DAD one so I can do some slightly more personal tweets relating to my studio practice. It’s @ClareGSmith but I haven’t done much tweeting yet.

Curator Caroline Fisher, fresh from her talk at the Project Space last week sent The Queens of Hungary this nice card. We like receiving post like that. Dominique Rey

Thursday 23 February. Another super sunny day quite like a Summer day in the UK. Halfway through concreting the studio floor but still a lot of work to do before completion. Working outside creating a wild garden is therapeutic I […]

You know you’re an art student when your shiny package of 36 glue sticks finally arrives and you get excited… Anyway, new plan: Use a famous song, with a less obvious storyline as the base for my stop motion animation. […]