A Kickstarter for the Radical Renewable Art + Activism Fund, which aims to turn electricity generated by a wind turbine into a funding stream for radical art projects, has smashed its £1500 target.
I love Shetland ! I shall be sad to leave………..
Task 1 – Complete Chairman Mao Print *Mandatory* Yes… This week is mostly gonna be based on getting all the layers of my Chairman Mao completed and hopefully Glen the technician will be around to help me more. As last […]
Progress into a hybrid botanical paper jungle at Hull School of Art and Design.
What updates are there with my chosen 4 prints for Pretty’s Exhibition? Last Thursday I called into Lamden galleries in Ipswich to get 4 mounts made up to go in my 4 frames of my images. So on Saturday I […]
One of the great things about being on residency is the creative freedom you have to pursue new work.
AUDIOBLOG – Please click here For the first time in ages, I’ve been feeling a bit of a stall in the way I write about my work. I have the work in my head, and in my sketchbook, but […]
Water…I have become mesmerised by the water, maybe since being here in the Booth, surrounded by it, the view is compelling and distracting, but it is not just here, as there is water and sea all around and it is […]
This is the third preparatory drawing in graphite for my ‘FLESH’ series of paintings. The first painting I am currently working on can be seen here on my blog and is still a work in progress: http://tmblr.co/ZJdAKm1ySHMrh The final paintings […]
This is the second preparatory drawing in graphite for my ‘FLESH’ series of paintings. The first painting I am currently working on can be seen here on my blog and is a work in progress: http://tmblr.co/ZJdAKm1ySHMrh The final paintings will […]
This drawing was inspired by the etchings of Kathe Kollwitz and is a pencil and graphite rendering of myself and my daughter Leona. http://www.switchstudio.co.uk The original etching by Kathe Kollwitz entitled ‘March of the Weavers (Weberzug)’ can be viewed as […]
This is a graphite drawing of Albert Einstein when he was 26 years old working in the patent office, this was the moment in time when he came up with his first theory of relativity. This drawing was inspired by […]
This sculpture was entered into the ‘Poison and Remedy’ Open Exhibition at WTS Gallery in Leicester and won a prize. Title: Saving Grace This piece has a symbolic personal connection to my daughter, as a baby she suffered from Febrile […]
This painting is very surreal and haunting, when painting this I was troubled and had a deep feeling of despair about my journey as an artist at this moment in time. It is very rare for me to feel this […]
With this self-portrait I aimed to paint a contemporary piece that would show masculinity whilst also displaying what I enjoy doing most, painting. The idea was to paint the portrait as if I was looking back at myself concentrating on […]
A study of the female form created whilst attending an art class with a live model. I think I could have done better with more time but at least I can continue to improve on my figurative studies in my […]
A sketched portrait of Marilyn Monroe using graphite pencils, coloured pencil (mainly for lips) and black fine-liner pen. http://www.switchstudio.co.uk
This was a painting I created using acrylic paint, black Indian ink and fine liner pen, I watered down the acrylic and ink to achieve a ‘watercolour’ wash of effects and wanted the colours to blend into each other. I […]
In this piece, I painted a symbolic representation of David Bowie’s song ‘Life on Mars?’ released in 1971. The line ‘Now she walks through her sunken dream’ conjured images of a surreal, blurred reality and the young girl with ‘mousy […]
It’s been a difficult week, but whenever I do this to myself, when I put myself in a position where I have to deliver on something that I am honestly not sure I can do successfully and I get […]
I have just heard that I have got the part-time job that I need to keep head above water financially – starting in late January. So now I can forget about job hunting! Yes! That is one less thing to […]
My final solo show, which will mark the end of my residency at AirSpace is fast approaching! Started making some press moulds to make tiles that will feature in the exhibition. Have to say I’m pretty pleased with how they’re […]
Laying out the herring nets to dry, can be about 2 miles of net. 10 days to go, before the residency comes to an end, I have seen the last three months of the year here in Shetland. At the […]
I am expecting to find evidence of crafts like basket making (especially to catch Eels!), presumably something similar for fishing. Also, I’d like to look at building techniques, of homes and boats. I’ve already seen evidence of early people in […]
