These works use images from magazines and social media, I have created the works using a stylus on touch screen tablet with digital software programs. Experimenting with different mediums helps the evolution of my practice, my main medium is painting […]
https://youtu.be/ftIJR5s6xaA This video is a follow-up to the last one on observational drawing of an old copper pot planted with blue/purple pansies. After the drawing which I finished with some loose watercolour, I began a large abstract painting. I wanted […]
This artwork was made in relation to birth, I worked quickly, as the model was in their last trimester. The plaster started to crack at the top of the breast; so I chose to paint it with latex, which created […]
The concept for my degree show work, and therefore my art practice is still evolving. However, I feel it is now arriving close to the point where I’m happy with the evolution of my ideas and what the final outcome […]
A review of Sander Van Raemdonck’s residency at Berwick Visual Arts, Berwick-Upon-Tweed
I’ve just had a really welcome break from work (paid and my own) in Paris. It was totally unexpected Birthday present from my family (well, unexpected 3 weeks ago when I was told) but a really fabulous, though brief, trip. […]
Recently I have been working on a series where the narative is that of the origins of international trade of food stuffs, rather than the personal narative of market users. Last summer we spent a fantastic afternoon walking though the […]
The last time I blogged I was at the end of my documenting exhibition and here I am now just over three weeks until the first of the two main exhibitions. Where has the time gone? Perhaps I was enjoying […]
The STEAMHouse project will see the former Typhoo tea factory in Digbeth transformed through over £14 million of funding into a creative space featuring studios, workshops, equipment and support staff.
AUDIOBLOG – Please click here My last post was something of an effort to put things in perspective. The thoughts have continued however. Especially the ones about functioning without a studio space separate from my home. I talk about not […]
This week’s selection includes sculpture in Kendal and south London, graffiti art in Manchester, and video installations in Oxford and Gateshead.
Ethnocide Blurb https://youtu.be/bLt_c4dcgHA ‘While entire cultures and livelihoods are wiped off the Earth, the knowledge within them is being spilled out of the global cultural landscape and heritage. As much as the actual local landscape is being destroyed, the […]
“Make art from your heart, from your cultural lens. It is freeing to express your inner self”. Loleithaart, 2013-2016 My chosen themes that I explore are subjects that interest me, such as identity race, and gender representation throughout art. My […]
I am currently working on this new piece so far it’s taken 3/4 days to get this far, I am happy with how it is progressing, it is definitely a creative flow that I’m experiencing, I am just going with […]
While reading the ‘The Art of Illusion’ page, 291, I came across this quote… ‘ I believe it is only by considering these psychological aspects of image making and image reading that we may come closer to an understanding of […]
i like easter. it’s the first big formal holiday of the year and lasts for 4 days. in recent years it’s often been the scene of an ambitious decorating project. this year it’s been the scene of relaxation away from […]
An exploration of concrete as a sculptural material: the positive and negative space and the structural limits of a material.
Two views of a small silverpoint drawing (14.5x21cm) based on a postcard of people in fancy dress (Empire Day?) taken somewhere in Margate in the late 1930s. This is part of an ongoing series of drawings which take postcards of […]
