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Arriving in Perugia I was met off the train by the artist Arthur Duff. He has been living in Italy since the age of nine. His studio and family life are in Vicenza though five days each month he works […]

For me, having ardently studied sculpture, the Museo dell’Opera del Duomo is something of a Mecca. Although the juxtaposition of these classic works with the contemporary world was on my mind already, while visiting I was able to easily picture […]

My initial idea of gauging an artists lot in Italy was beginning to seem redundant. Basically, the situation for artists, more or less, is the same the world over. We are all pursuing an ideal, a conviction or a vocation […]

I visited, along with the composer Nye Parry, the brand new exhibition space at Royal Holloway University, where Digital Forest, my installation in making, will have its first public showing. (From April- July 2018) It was really exciting to see […]

The sound in the installation will be a very important part of it and is being created by sound artist and composer, Nye Parry. In order to explore the kind of sound that will be in the installation and discuss […]

I have been hard at work experimenting in the studio trying to create an experience that replicates the effect of a forest on attention. In the first blog I outlined the aspects of a forest that psychologists believe cause this […]

In this first blog post I will discuss the psychology research already undertaken about natural environments and attention, this research informs the art work I am creating. Attention restoration is linked to landscape art, because studies show that our aesthetic preference […]

It’s been about 6 months since I did my 3D CAD drawing course. Since then I downloaded free Rhino trial programme on my computer and been practising it on my own. At the beginning it wasn’t easy to apply all […]

Day 3 started with more complicated and exciting exercises. We we thought how to build rubover, rex, prong, square, and cabochon settings Day 4 was an introduction to Surface Modelling, including closing open surfaces and combining open objects. We built […]

Earlier this year I was awarded the a-n Professional Development Bursary for a Rhino CAD 3D drawing course at British Academy of Jewellery delivered by head of department Jack Meyer. It was an intensive 4-day training course for beginners, which […]

In some respects it’s been a difficult year… If you are that interested you can read back over it, as I just have. I seem to have apologised for not blogging several times… There’s a metaphor I shall borrow, again, […]

I’ll be giving an artist talk on 24 January on my commission, Echo at Pyramid Arts Centre, Warrington, in association with CVAN and Warrington Contemporary Arts Festival and alongside artist Ellen Sampson. All welcome, full details and booking (free event): http://warringtonartsfestival.co.uk/event/artist-talk […]

2017 was mostly spent making Grantium applications that failed. I was successfully awarded some respite funding, so I have enjoyed a lot of time out, not doing much work at all due to lack of funding. I recently attended a […]

[Jessie Davies, untitled, (2017)]   The next underlined project workshop will explore a sense of ‘place’. I’ve recently been investigating collage and mixed media in my own practice, and I’m busy preparing collage materials and resources for the forthcoming underlined workshop. Why? Because there […]

I arrived in Ristiina which is very close to the town of Mikkeli in the south-east of Finland on the 12th of August with a loose itinerary for the next 4 weeks. I was going to attend dances at five […]