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I’ve got the open call blues. Well, no not really. Frankly open calls are always one step away from a shut door so you get used to it. Throwing your time and effort into an open call is the lot […]

    Last month was the third official meeting of the peer mentoring group whereby artists have an opportunity to meet together in each other’s homes and discuss artwork and projects they’re currently working on. On this occasion, we met at […]

I have been pushing quite hard recently and trying to work out how to move my work forward and develop what I have being doing in essence for many years. Whilst pondering this creative conundrum I realised what was probably […]

Gillian L-B, Untitled, January, 2016 [Acrylic on wood], A1 This completed work consists of multiple layers of acrylic paint built up with wet-on-wet and wet-on-dry paint. The paint was applied using various sizes of grouting tools which behave in a […]

Jan 26th 2016   What makes for a good MFA research session?  Two sessions at the beginning of the term have set the bar quite high – Cath Davies – Material Girl – offered a really explicit insight into her […]

Gillian, L-B, Untitled, December, 2016, [Acrylic on canvas}, 20″ x 26″ I have been commissioned to paint two abstract paintings (A2) related by colour. Usually my paintings are individual so I decided to set up an experiment. Firstly, I prepared […]

Myself and Lisa have been pushing forward, trying to find and secure spaces to show our work collaboratively in. We are keen to explore interesting, less obvious spaces as well as the typical white cube space. There is something interesting […]

This is the beginning of a journey pre UCS and Post UCS .I will try to explain the influences that have impacted on my work and the work its self.There will be a number of avenues in this journey and […]

[gallery ids=”52439132,52439133″ work by Rose Wylie, even older than me and winning prizes.

having a go at a lighter approacher to Cultural expectations, the “armour” of fashion, joining the fashion herd so one cannot get picked off as a separate woman…a disguise but then again an opportunity to be creative. Creating one’s own […]

I think these have a certain “noir” quality!  Lots unsaid. I really like the way the mood goes from amusing suspense to pathos in the Fitting In film. Reminds me of people sleeping on the streets. I think the multiple […]

After tucking up my roll of pastel picture, I’ve decided it is time to tackle a new image from the cine films. One has a brilliant blue singe mark across it, and some interesting life going on ambiguously across it. […]

Robert Plutchik introduced the ‘Wheel of Emotions’ as an emotion clarification system in the 1980s. Similar to the colour wheel that we are so familiar with, the wheel of emotions demonstate how different emotions can be combined together. Plutchik suggested […]

Dr Stephen Thompson’s research and ideas lecture discussed the concepts researched during his PHD which was completed prior to him taking the post of deputy Dean seven years ago; he also tied this into how he sees this research evolving […]

  In my adolescence, I visited the artist in a London flat. There was a room designated for the studio; I could not smell turps or white spirit; I could not see a Francis Bacon tsunami licking the prosaic off […]