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 […]
I feel like I need a few days of nothingness ….. time in the studio, listening to music, scribbling out some ideas…. thinking time. Barely a day after Paris, I was back in work. A day later installing the houses […]
I have been continuing with the mono printing and am still using forms and imagery relating to Nonya ware imported from China by the Straits Chinese Community in the former British Colony of Malaya and to Chinese shipwrecked export porcelain […]
The work for my final project is taking shape in the form of paintings/Stitch and a mixture of the two.One of the pieces I am currently working on is a vintage army jacket and according to research is probably a […]
Today when making my website I found myself pulling pages out of a writing pad in frustration as I wasn’t able to do what I wanted to do. I was screwing the page up into a ball and then flattening […]
My reflections on the auction that we had to raise money for our end of year degree show.In short i must say the entier show went very well we was able to raise a lot of money (£8000) give or […]
After talking to Jane in the studio I feel like I needed to reevaluate the way I display my work. I feel like I am becoming far to precious with my work which is a miss representation of what the […]
<post by Joseph> Into the final week… I’ve been holed up in my studio for the last few weeks trying to figure out how to organise my large archive of recorded material to make the final piece(s) of work. It’s […]
During the Victorian era in Germany,an ex-seamstress and an inmate in an asylum,Agnes Ricter stitched into virtually every inch of the jacket she created from her institutional uniform.Agnes’s embroidered writing was so profuse that much of the text was hard […]
Forty page case-bound book showing all 26 mixed media landscape pieces being shown at Alan Kluckow Fine Art April 16th to May 10th 2016
AUDIOBLOG – Please click here I often make the comment that I have now rendered myself completely unemployable. It is only partly in jest. I now cannot believe how much of my working life I have spent marching to the […]
I got around to putting the last coat of stain on two of my boxes using my own wood stain that I made using steel wool and white vinegar. I made the mixture in October as I saw some good […]
In my new filmic collage the one piece of footage exciting me most shows shots of London through a passing train; flickering images, inside then out, a strobing billboard, flashes of colour, light and shade. It creates its own inherent […]
With my work I predominetly let nature take a lead and change and leave traces on various materials and now I have found an artist who works on the same lines as I do. Daro Montag Montag is an […]
This week’s selection includes sculpture and drawing in Bexhill, digitally printed fabrics in Portsmouth and experimental film in London.
Thank you for your amazing feedback in response to my last blog post. The sincere and heartfelt expressions of support are gratefully appreciated. I had a break and a think and have made a new piece of work about the […]
Eagerly awaiting for my skull and antlers to arrive so I can crack on with next piece of work for Diana the Huntress, The Moon Goddess. Sticking with my moon themed work relating to the feminine, and feminism. The moon […]
Last year I made a drawing from an image of Frida Kahlo. I hoped at some point to make a painting from the drawing, but never got around to it. I was going to donate an already existing drawing or […]
While home in the Highlands last weekend I acquired two sets of Red Deer antlers with skulls, and one set of Highland Cow horns, two days later my brother was fishing at Lochluichart and found another deer skull and antlers, […]
Michael Raedecker(B.1963) Michael Raedecker is a Dutch artist currently living and working in London.He first trained as a fashion designer studying at the Gerrit Rietreld Academies,Amsterdam and at the Rijksakademie ,Amsterdam before retraining as an artist at Goldsmiths College in […]
Gillian L-B, Brain in Flow, 2016 Artist Statement: My abstract paintings comprise millions of tiny particles (e.g. pigment, water) which run together in waves to form images which like photographs, develop to reveal something about the fluctuating frequencies active in […]
