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4 DISPAIR This is not what I had originally planned for this, I was trying to paint a waterfall looking down from the top, so I was standing on the edge of the water fall feeling I was about to […]

All through this year I have been so frustrated and when I have got like this I have just got the paint out and applied it with no thought of what I in producing, I have just picked colors that […]

Now… repeating a picture of any sort that I have completed is something that I have turned away from…  I am a perfectionist…  so, everything has to be right with it and I can get very upset if I make […]

I have worked on 10 2ft by 2ft MDF boards playing with color and texture. each one on an individual basis, I had thought of attempting to do some colour field painting… And on four of the 2 x 2 […]

1 LOVE (2 become 1) The original idea for this emotion was a small canvas I had painted a few years ago but fitted to what I wanted to portray, this is when two people have fallen in love and […]

EMOTIONS THROUGH COLOUR   Last year in level 5, my theme was my emotion’s through color, I produced a mind map to link up the various emotions.  I researched the color’s associated with the various emotion’s and symbolism that was […]

Next to my name and venue number in the guide it says (because that is what I wrote in my entry form): Installation and objects. I wonder if people have been intrigued or confused by that description. From chatting with […]

At 11.30am today (Tuesday 18th April 2017) Theresa May announced a snap election. This was exactly 15 hours after our first a-n Artist-led Group Bursary ‘Artists as Political Activists’ meeting, the timing could not be more perfect. We as a […]

My journey through the in-depth study of work by Boltanski, Salcedo, Richter, Emin, Bourgoeis and, indeed, others has helped me develop my thinking. This has, in turn, enabled me to create my own distinctive style, which, I consider, has generated […]

Louise Bourgeois (25 December 1911 – 31 May 2010) was a French-American artist. Best known for her large-scale sculpture and installation art, Bourgeois was also a prolific painter and printmaker. Bourgeois’ work is very much confessional; she discusses her life […]

In my more recent artworks, such as ‘Wedding Day’ (Fig 26), ‘Petal’ (Fig 27) and ‘Explosion of Colour…Life’ (Fig 28 – 30), I have begun to combine the use of text, photograph and paint or brusho, making multiple mixed media […]

Tracey Emin, CBE, RA (born 3 July 1963) is an English contemporary artist, known for her autobiographical and confessional artwork. Emin produces work in a variety of media including drawing, painting, sculpture, film, photography, neon text and sewn appliqué. Emin’s […]

Gerhard Richter (born 9 February 1932) is a German visual artist. Richter has produced abstract as well as photorealistic paintings, and also photographs and glass pieces. In his series ‘Panorama’ (Fig 14 – 21), there are eight over-painted photographs displayed. […]

Upon the realisation of my unconscious reluctance to disfigure family photos, I decided to consciously alter them, either by ripping them up or painting over them. This is something seen in Gerhard Richter’s work.