Month 2 of residency completed and I continue to be frustrated by my progress – however, I’ve started doing some small maquettes and today I’m going to scale one up into a decent size maquette / small sculpture. When I […]
The good thing about a residency is leaving things behind. This is also the bad thing about a residency. In a way I feel as though I have brought with me, on this residency, material that I have, over the […]
It’s a curious thing to look at the contradictions in your own thinking. The last few conversations here with David Riley, Annabel Tilley, David Minton and others as well as the research I’m doing at the moment into the avant-garde […]
My proposal for project GROW YOUR OWN*BLOW YOUR OWN has been approved! ACE I love you!
Pictures at an exhibition. The final photographs were in fact a lot more complete than I imagined. Someone said that they thought they would be much nearer to background painting reference. People noticed small things happening within the images. I […]
I had a couple of brilliant tutorials today that really helped me to realise that the confusion I am feeling is because I am human; wiith all of the layers and complexities, which, inevitably, come through in making my work.It […]
Much soul searching today. I have been considering whether to ‘ditch’ the rook and my tutorials helped me to think, ‘why?’. It may be because I feel embarrassed by it and worry that it might not be acceptable, maybe it […]
This morning I had a chat with Richard Taylor about my blog, why I have committed to writing everyday and what I hope to achieve. The result of the interview will be that I will be publicizing what I am […]
Richard Colson, 'The Thames at Maidenhead', Oil on Canvas, 2011. Photo: Richard Colson.
Richard Colson, 'Ripple 15', Watercolour, 2008. Photo: Richard Colson.
Mark Neville, 'Fancy Pictures', video still, 2008. Photo: Mark Neville. Courtesy: Mark Neville. Commissioned by Mount Stuart Trust and part-funded by the Scottish Arts Council
Marc Atkins, 'Underlie', Mixed media, 2011.
Thomas Lamb, 'Frozen Oak Tree', oil on linen, 2010. Courtesy: Browse & Darby.
Beth Morrison, 'Tommy Cooper', Mixed media, August 2010.
Despite setting up a successful jewellery business with her husband, blogger Jane always knew she was an artist and eventually found the time and space to develop her painting. Andrew Bryant talks to Jane about business, the relationship between art and craft, the obsession with interpretation and about feminism and painting.
South London Gallery, London
26 June – 10 September 2010