I’ve been going on Twitter a lot recently. There are good and bad points to this. It’s good because I read lots of interesting articles about art and politics and if I then share them with my followers I feel […]
these first paintings are small.. so that it’s possible to experiment, it’s fairly easy to work outside on this canvas size and it dries quickly, trying to capture the perspectives of the beach and tide line is tricky and it […]
Organising my sketch books I was reminded of some of the cut outs I was working on recently. These were inspired by my visit to the Matisse Museum in Nice and the Tate Modern, Matisse Cut Outs exhibition. I was […]
B is for Lino Brocka, A-Z of Filipino Cultural Exports Lino Brocka (1939–1991) is a celebrated Filipino Filmmaker, producing more than 50 films in a short career spanning barley 20 years. Working between commercial and experimental film, at his finest Brocka […]
The pivotal interest in my art is people. Human behaviour and emotions as they unfold in response to society, morals and social interactions.
The pivotal interest in my art is people. Human behaviour and emotions as they unfold in response to society, morals and social interactions.
Texture in the artwork as well as texture in life brings depths and perspective.
Italian artist Filippo Minelli started taking photos of smoke-bombs in romantic landscapes to juxtapose the beauty of nature with the violence of a medium devoted to create chaos with a stunning result. Minelli became fascinated with smokebombs after viewing them in use during […]
Looking back on the all the photographs I have taken at protests and demonstrations over the year. I did not use some of the photographs as I felt they were so crowded that when fly-posted on a wall with others […]
I went to see my sponsor yesterday, CNC Polystyrene, to see how they were getting on with the milling of my sculpture. What do you want first, the good news or the bad news? Good news is, half the figure […]
I will be starting my new Residency in Rock House Art School on Monday 27 April. I will be the first artist in residence in this new place. I am looking forward to continuing and developing the ideas from working […]
A is for Pio Abad, A-Z of Filipino Cultural Exports Pio Abad (b. 1983) is a contemporary visual artist living and working in London. Originally from Manilla, Abad left the Phillipines, for Scotland in 2004 to continue his studies in […]
Why draw out the plans of my English roof design? As always, I like to plan things out through drawing to get a feel of what could become a reality and using critical thinking in how to make things work […]
Yesterday Katherine and I had our first window to install ‘Congregation’. The collection of nearly 500 cast ceramic vessels now resides at The Congregational Church Blaby. Well for at least for the next five weeks! The installation went really well, […]
The bad Chinese supermarket memory fading away? In my last post about my work called – China Is Not Just A Bowl Of Noodles, was a temporary work that I wanted to create just like a bad memory becoming a […]
Perhaps because I do not have my own home my studio has had a very significant role in my life since moving to Sweden. It is not only where I come to work, but also a sanctuary when I […]
Every week, a-n’s members post details of events and exhibitions across the UK on the site’s Events listings section. We pick some of the highlights from the next seven days.
An opportunity to exhibit artwork at the National Assembly for Wales has provoked a strong response from artists in the country, who argue it undermines the profession and makes a mockery of the Welsh Government’s ambitions for Wales’ creative sector.
Noticed how cracked the ground was and followed the urge to draw it. Noticed the drawing looked like a map and what if I used the drawing as a map instead of yesterday’s version. First attempt I found the distortion […]
What was the outcome since the last post of the second vase designs? Outcome was indeed successful in the end because at first the main colours of the second vase designs from the last post looked too plain and thought […]
From the car park at West Stoke there is 1-2 mile walk to the entrance to Kingley Vale. An information hut with a map directing visitors through and around the ancient yews to the tumuli at the top. I park […]
‘Pope Joan’ – Medieval muslin undergarment, rice paper circlet breast pads – Julie Dodds. “The rice paper obviously alludes to the flesh of Christ in Catholic tradition and the breast pads reference the myth that she had a child. The […]
I think it is a good idea to explain why i like using plaster as a medium.. i work with it because i love its qualities , it is a transformative material which is liquid then a solid , ( […]
This report deconstructs the Paying Artists case studies, published in 2014, to highlight emerging themes and show how some galleries are already demonstrating transparency. Useful for galleries wishing to develop their own fair pay policies.
A week of intensive work on “Angel’s Nightie” in the studio: both making and thinking. Following on from thinking about the quote from “the Tempest” (Shakespeare) in previous blog, I took my daughters to see the Alexander McQueen show (my […]
