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My photo-luminescence powders have just arrived! Time to start experimenting.

I have been intending to write this post for some time but i never seem to get round to putting this one down. its to do with how my work influences me. well more to do with the way the […]

I visited the Tate, although I usually feel uninspired going to this place because it seems to be the first go to gallery on every trip, I was lucky enough to see a few pieces of work that truly grabbed […]

The whole university journey has been fascinating, but more importantly, it has been very liberating by releasing me from the shackles of self-doubt and enabling me to be more constructive in the self-evaluation of what I do as an artist. […]

Throughout my time at University Campus Suffolk I have become more reflective about my art practice and in return this has maintained and strengthened my connection to working principally in the three-dimensional realm, but also encouraged me to incorporate painting […]

flicking through the pages of a glossy, clean, unbent magazine; there was an article talking about a show on in london. the works of Mel Bochner someone who i have been looking at in my work and i have used […]

My trip to the 1st site gallery was on the Thursday 31st of March. we saw some very interesting works there including words from Andy warhol.the show itself was put on as a collection of work that had been inspired […]

I went out for a walk one night and took some more photographs of lights, but I wasn’t out long as it was raining so, I decided to use the materials I had indoors. I began to play around with […]

Combining my research with the school holidays I take my smallest child with me.  My smallest loves street food, so this week at her request we visted Borough Market.  It is her favourite of the markets she has come to […]

Following my theme of adding abstract elements to realistic drawings, I’ve been experimenting with tape and acetate. First I marked out my meausrements for the portraits, and then I placed some tape in thin stripes over the paper. I then […]

  Play has been on my mind recently … to be completely honest Play has been on my floor recently!  Since return from Stockholm in late February the piece has been lying on my living room floor waiting to be […]

The ‘Perception series’ continues as I sketch on, basically focussing and exploring about the Afro hair type. The Afro hair is very versatile, the natural hair coil, in its original state would be half the length of it, if it […]

This work was inspired by a vintage child’s dress belonging to my daughter which reminds me of dresses I had when I was a child.I have been working on this piece for quite some time as most of the work […]

This work’Tippi Hedren’ was an appliquéd suit to pay homage to the actress in the film’The Birds’ by Alfred Hitchcock the work was a collaboration between Tracey Emin and Sara Lucas in the 1990’s when they ran their’shop’ which was […]

One of my favourite portrait artist’s is Elizabeth Peyton, who I also looked at for my dissertation. Elizabeth Peyton is an American artist who graduated with a fine arts degree from the school of visual arts in New York in […]

I like to record my paintings as they are made.This work is part of a body of work which goes with the other acrylic on canvas I have featured on this blog titled ‘little fat dress’This painting of a dress […]

I continue to illustrate the physiognomy of the Black female figure. I am trying out digital drawing using a digital pen and Ipad or my tablet, as I previously did some on braided hair , the idea was to see […]

Eva Hesse was a German-Jewish artist/sculptor known for her work in materials such as latex, fibreglass and plastics.She lived in New York from an early age. Her individual style first appeared in her drawings shown in her drawings ,shown in […]

Whilst writing my dissertation ‘Contemporary Portraiture: the Influence of Primary and Secondary Sources’, one of the artist’s I looked at was Chuck Close. Charles Thomas “Chuck” Close is an American painter and photographer, renowned for his large-scale photo based portraits. […]

week 1 in the process of making the buoy, after my visit to Milwyn last week, I have a better understanding of the process. The first stage for me though is to do the drawing on a 1:1 scale of […]