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While I was developing my dissertation proposal back at last year, I decide to focus and study on two art genres that they have always interested me, and doing this make my dissertation a bit easily for me to write […]

Leaving my car behind in Wales was undoubtedly a wise move.  I have thoroughly explored a relatively small area on foot, and have seen far more than you ever do when rushing around in a metal box on wheels.  I […]

I have been looking at the way the Snapshot aesthetic has affected the work of many contemporary photographers and painters and will be posting blogs about some of them later. Now I am going to talk about the work I […]

Back in February (and I thought I’d already posted a blog in here!) I ran an hour’s Peace Painting workshop at The Collection Museum and Art Gallery, organised via Paradigm Arts. I thought initially that this would be a talk […]

When I was talking with my tutor, we discussed doing a coloured pencil drawing of my final idea as I have already drawn the animals in coloured pencil, she said it was worth thinking about, which I did and have […]

I decided to paint on a canvas size of 60″ x 45″ I wanted to work larger then i have done before but not to big that you wouldn’t be able to see all the different elements within the painting. […]

I’m now about to start my final painting yet I’ve still got a few things to decide, mainly the size of it. I know I want to do a large painting but I’m not sure how big, I’m going to […]

From looking at the artist and my drawings i decided i wanted to progress from how i did my work before, in my previous project i only painted animals but this time i wanted to add scenery to my paintings […]

When I first start a new project I start with doing a few drawings of my main subjects, in this case animals, as I wont yet know how the final outcome will look but the animals i draw i know […]

Painting with light at the Wolsfon Institute, Durham University. A study of the natural fall of light in the main atrium space led to the development of a series of ‘Prismatic Light Shelves’ that reflect and refract light patterns beyond […]