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Marwan’s practice is said to be defined as a continual process of internal burrowing. That impulse to locate and translate an inner state of being ties together a neo-expressionist perspective on the healing properties of art and painting. Marwan’s work […]

‘The Gift’ detail Painted for the 70th anniversary of Snowdonia National Park (2021) Often, painting with a philosophy to explore means separating the elements out to manage ideas. When re-reading about colour theory and the Impressionists painters these two paintings […]

As part of the AN coach training in 2018 we also received coaching, and I have been coached on and off ever since. Now, I spend more time in my studio making art. I take my artwork to it’s completion, […]

My practice focuses on the parameters of the ‘object’ and the multiple purposes and sentimental readings objects can possess. In this new body of work I pose questions around object worth, acts of mass production and duality of purpose within […]

Part of the reason that I began a daily drawing practice was in anticipation of a project for which I’d applied for funding. I heard over the weekend that I’d failed to secure it. One of their reasons for refusing […]

This week for the first time in months I managed to set aside a whole day for my practice. Having not had a chance to paint for so long it felt like loosening rusty joints, with screeches, squeaks and scrapes […]

Suitable for the backwards/forwards looking nature of January, I’ve titled the painting completed last week ‘Hindsight’. Here’s a better quality photo of it (taken with both daylight and studio lighting) Looking forward, I’ve created a new series of images to […]

After my last post about the frantic activity of bid writing, things have turned around a little… For some reason I always forget what it feels like, The Slump. I know it is coming and I predict it. But somehow […]

Time waits for no one… So many people who write blogs start their posts with references to time – how much time has passed since last writing, how inconceivable it is that it’s been so long and so on. I […]

Secret fractures – Art as Self-Harming Why do I sometimes let my emotions get the better of me? For the same reason I let it rain last Tuesday. Robert Brault Life had given me lemons – in the form of a bitter-sweet […]

Spurred on by seeing my friend, Amy starting a blog, I’m coming back yet again. My new garden studio lies unused. Cocooned until the warmth of the sun allows me to linger more than the odd few minutes when I […]