I like the antonyms to ‘rigorous’ they are a good fit for my research processes: flexible laid-back yielding amenable compliant agreeable compromising pliable softhearted pliant complaisant acquiescent In my pursuit of writing around the afterlife of images I’ve been reading […]
Selling your work is tough, but Artist Support Pledge and a host of a-n resources can help.
A focus on alternative art education programmes, from self-organised to more structured offerings from institutions.
My Boldbrush art contest entries for April are selected from the new floral paintings that I created in February. I’d be delighted if you’d vote for one or all of them Here are the paintings – just click on the […]
13th April – Sunday tried out an alternative idea for displaying the participants work but went back to my original idea, deciding it would be best to take in the drilled wooden blocks and green garden sticks so that each […]
7th April Monday – parking was a nightmare but with help from my group who were watching from the Library window I got the car unloaded and a space miraculously appeared. I felt a little dazed and spaced out from […]
6th April Sunday was spent reacquainting myself with my digital camera and attempting to find useful ways of recording all the interesting details in everyone’s work. I had hoped to take them out to some trees beyond my back fence, […]
31st Monday March The first part of the session saw a sharing of all the fabric strips, we took time to study the different effects, the backs and fronts, the myriad textures and tones created by the reaction of […]
30th Sunday in the garden unwrapping and recording the four pieces I had at home, discovered it was really tricky to capture the details effectively. I also spent time creating a maquette for our next making adventure. I needed to […]
In Stitches March 22nd Some speedy slow stitching on Gary and Paul’s textile bark strips for the next Above and Below Rust and Remembrance session. Gary had no time to stitch between sessions as he’s sorting through his dear departed […]
Having made the discovery that the cathedral Beech Tree was now a growing space for new life on the forest floor I decided that the Silver Birch might be the inspiration for the hanging tree columns in my eventual installation. […]