i sit and get myself comfortable. above the laptop is a view into the garden, the naked strands of willow are being toyed with by the ebbing breeze. with great excitement i edit and upload the images from last week. […]
Sometimes you don’t know where chance meetings will take you. Back in 2007, when I was just starting to emerge into the outside world after years of agoraphobia, I went to the first events at the new Aspex Gallery, after […]
Follow this link to see more about Simon Faithfull’s work at Wells next the sea . Quite fascinating! http://wellsharbour.co.uk/na725.htm I’m excited to be attempting a video piece to add to my Fine Art MA exhibition. I’m primarily a painter but […]
I’m currently working on a drawing piece. It’s drawing in the wider sense in that it uses photographic images from the environment around us. These images are a mixture of man and nature creating marks, lines and movement in different […]
A selection of recommended exhibitions for the week ahead, including museum shows by Pink Floyd and Giacometti in London, sculpture in Salisbury and painting in Derry-Londonderry.
This week’s selection from a-n’s Events section, featuring exhibitions and events posted by a-n members, takes us to Exeter, London, Middlesbrough and the Isle of Wight.
Walking and being immersed in the landscape brings a connection to its integral beauty and its value to our mental and physical health. Through these walks I absorb the sights and sounds the landscape of Somerset and elsewhere brings to […]
Play has become so important to me and my work but I must decide whether I show traces of my play or the play itself. I keep thinking about Richard Long and his a line made by walking, you never saw Long take his […]
Spending the past two months working on my new photographic strand of work alongside my painting practise has been an interesting journey so far. Following the photographic course at Leeds College of Art I had an overall concept for this […]
This week I had the real pleasure of meeting up with Emily Jane Campbell artejcampbell.co.uk, and Lucy Gresley lucygresley.com in Oxford to discuss plans for putting some more power into the e-communications strategy for Plastic Propaganda. We had a working […]
My studio space, more photos: These photos are relevant for potential hanging of work. Notes I use the Notes app on both my I-pad and I-phone a lot, I find it is easier than pen and paper for general notes […]
On Sunday the weather was so beautiful, I decided to go painting down at Friars Meadow. Not using acrylics or oil but by collecting the mud at the fields and mixing it with water. It has been a while since […]
This week’s selection includes a statement on global culture’s impact on the individual in Penzance, photography and film in Edinburgh and sculpture in Wakefield.
Spike Associate Laurie Lax gained clarity and confidence at Jamboree – and a national network of couches Only a certain kind of person would sign up to sleep on a gallery floor for three nights with a bunch of strangers. […]
Lithuania First week back into uni didn’t actually happen until October for myself and a few others, as we travelled to Lithuania for a week’s residency (22nd – 29th September): We flew to Kaunas airport from Stansted, met by Rimantas […]
This week’s selection includes Frank Auerbach’s paintings of people and the urban landscapes in London, British sculpture from the ’70s and ’80s in Coventry, and a radical coming together of the Situationist, Beat and Punk movements in Southampton.
This week’s selection includes contemporary portraiture at the V&A, a response to Salibury’s picturesque surroundings and Richard Long in Bristol.
Richard Long , whose work i am exploring in conjunction with my dissertation has popped up on the radar…. relevant to time and space…. in Bristol , his home town where he still works and resides. […]
Searching for ambiguity beyond content. Marks and erosions suggest sensibilities between reality and the enigmatic.
journal of two Residencies:
1 St. John’s Church, St. Leonards on Sea
2 Rock House (Art School) Hastings
Currently reading: Turn your trash into . . . Rubbish, art and politics. Richard Wentworth’s geographical imagination by Harriet Hawkins (University of Exeter), Social & Cultural Geography, Vol. 11, No. 8, December 2010 Introduction Hawkins introduces Wentworth’s practice focussing in […]
Final Reflection My final pieces are up and I feel very proud to see my degree show in progress. Over the past six months working towards this very moment, I have grown into the artist I always imagined myself to […]
Summarizing It is now time to take stock and reflect on my amazing journey taken thoughout this final project…The journey taken and the transition of one project into another at one stage felt like I had run aground mid stream […]
Realisation My connection to the landscape although may not have always been present in my art has always been clear in my head .It may seem late in the game so to speak; but I have found where my passions […]
