This needs to be written quickly. Self-imposed deadlines are looming and an artistic panic is setting in. Just how I like it. The deadline for voting on your favourite Surrey Artist at the New Ashgate Gallery is also fast approaching. […]
She was not breathing at all. She was dead. They lifted her up and looked for something poisonous. They undid her laces. They combed her hair. They washed her with water and wine. But nothing helped. The dear child was […]
Well my painting is progressed a lot, it is very vibrant and feel it is very expressive. I like to use colour to express myself, in a way that almost says “look at me” hopefully I have done that with […]
4th October, 2010 This painting is really making me feel frustrated! There is something about it that is driving me nuts! I am having problems with the two masks on left and the middle. I love the effect I got […]
Conjunction10 Conjunction is a Contemporary Art Biennial taking place in Stoke on Trent. This year Conjunction will feature over 15 commissioned artists responding to the theme of Escape. The work will be exhibited in a number of venues in the […]
Had a pleasent transit ride today taking in some work i had done at home over the summer as well as the excersise bike from/for the mapping 1 project… Sanded down and painted up my wall section and started scrapping […]
I wrote my press release today. Funny how long it takes to get everything to fit onto the page – I spent more time on making it look good and fit than the content! I have planned a private view […]
I have a recurring dream at present. More of a nightmare, actually. I am walking along a narrow path with a precipitous drop one side and an impassible wall/rock/hedge the other. I reach an obstacle which I have to edge […]
I was thinking about time the other day. Time is such a hot issue with me at the moment as I don’t seem to have enough time to do all that I want to do.I get frustrated that at the […]
It’s been a while since I’ve been here. I’ve visited the ‘interval’ blog now that I’ve set the task of visiting it after the interval of 3 days. So here I’ll keep up with the overview of the whole course. […]
i feel really motivated and directed in the right direction which is pretty vague but as i work my work works for me! its amazing how work has its own language. You think, yeah i’ll have a go at that […]
with Cross I worked with illusion, seeing how i could reduce perspective drawing to it’s bare elements, and introduce repetitive line, a multiplication of something simple, to something confusing and seemingly spacious to the eye.
Event Horizon marked the beginning of a complete fascination with octagons – simple yet complex geometric shapes that for me spoke of order and complexity, and where overhelmingly ‘human,’ completely constructed and relating strongly to conceptual space. In this series […]
Octagons – simple yet complex geometric shapes that for me spoke of order and complexity, and where overhelmingly ‘human,’ completely constructed and relating strongly to conceptual space. And the number eight has a resonance in many fields. one example is […]
After a lovely long Summer holiday with plenty of distance from my ideas of last year, I feel refreshed and ready to tackle the second and last year of my MA at Wimbledon. I have visited a few shows in […]
Have you seen “My Son, My Son What Have Ye Done”? It’s a new Werner Herzog film that came out quite recently. I watched it over the weekend. I mostly don’t bother with DVD extras, but because I am such […]
I think I’ve discovered something in my use of the word ‘duality’ to Nicola Dale – I think in two’s. It reminds me of a program I saw years ago about Buckminster Fuller, the designer/inventor of the geodesic dome and […]
Duncan Ward This is the artist who inspired me out of my art block. He has done a series of 50 or so drawings from previous performances of his. His drawing is incredibly fresh and interesting with no pretentions. His […]
continued Extracts from Ecstatic Notebook by Duncan Ward: ‘Ecstasy is not something that can be accessed on demand, but there may be little tricks and methods we can use in order to make ourselves more amenable to ecstasy when it […]
Dialogue – is the second artist exhibition that I have been invited to take part in as part of the Art Chartron’s Festival in Bordeaux. This year Francis Viguera who is an artist in Bordeaux as well as the President […]
This was a project in which I drew cracks onto paper and spray mounted directly onto the gallery wall. They seem to imply a papering over of cracks, or an imagined break in the wall, leading to some unknown space. […]
This Veritable Mess of Appetite was a project based around automatic writing. Whilst unlocking some subconscious connections and holding them up to scrutiny, many of the pages have holes in them revealing sections of words and letters, turning this into […]
This Untitled piece was the culmination of a lot of thinking about the parralels between science and art. Science and art both have some specifically imaginative elements, analytical aspects and experiments. I wanted to put forward a marriage between the […]
This series of Mirror Paintings was a project concerned with experimentations with the flow of liquid paint and the notion of virtual spaces such as reflections, aerial photographs and maps. The aesthetic that the liquids created often felt like mimicry […]
This piece, entitled Void was one of a large series of prints. The idea led on from my automatic writing in This Veritable Mess of Appetite, which I reused in this new context. I layered the text up repeatedly, in […]