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Finished without me
I finished the large charcoal picture I’d been working on during the week. I had worked on it incrementally, readdressing it each time I came in to the studio doing other projects in between and then quite suddenly it was […]
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A breath of fresh air
I’ve deliberately avoided digitally posting anything anywhere for sometime wanting to let my ideas meander and allow a new studio routine to emerge post Royal Drawing School ODDY. I struggled initially post exhibition, I worked, but what I made felt […]
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Almost there
The horror of impending deadlines last week finally enabled me to pull things together. For the past month I’ve been traversing the confidence meltdown that lies along the route to an impending exhibition. I’ve done the avoidance of important tasks, […]
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Struck by Lightning
Today finds me on a train between Milan and Basel having spent a week in Padua looking – looking at frescos, looking at paintings, looking at architecture and cake shop windows. I now feel saturated by religious art and delighted […]
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Dysfunctional Discourse
I’ve previously suggested to my students that they think of the process of picture making as a conversation between themselves and the work. This week I’ve continued to labour over various versions of my preparing for pears image, that is, […]
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Display and Despair
Just over a week ago I was at the Royal Drawing School for two days with fellow ODDY students enjoying their real life company immersed in playful collaborative drawing. Back home I m having a crisis of confidence and stress. […]
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Post ODDY committing to drawing
My year with the Royal Drawing School is both finished and unfinished, scheduled class commitments sit behind me, commitments to my own practice in front. Immediately ahead lie two in-house drawing days meeting most of the ODDY cohort in person […]
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Untitled blog post from "Noticing-Observing-Documenting"
It’s almost the end of the spring term, and the end of the first term of the RDS ODDY. I’m absolutely ready for a break and I’m trying to desist from filling the forthcoming holiday with other commitments, commitments that […]
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Untitled blog post from "Noticing-Observing-Documenting"
I’m five weeks into a year long course with the Royal Drawing School; the Online Drawing Development Year or ODDY. Last year was filled with the intensity, joy and grief of looking after my father. The practicalities, emotions and changed […]
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Untitled blog post from "Noticing-Observing-Documenting"
In the weeks since my last blog I feel as if I have been emotionally thrown backwards and forwards like a ball on a parcel shelf in car that continuously takes corners too fast. I have managed to complete a […]
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Untitled blog post from "Noticing-Observing-Documenting"
Life has rushed past recently stomping over plans, thoughts and intentions, but the momentum of chaos has still delivered me to a good place. I’m in a gallery with new work on the walls and being here feels like stepping […]
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Untitled blog post from "Noticing-Observing-Documenting"
I’ve been thinking about names. As the artist, untitled is fine, I make the work, spend time with it, know it intimately and no name is needed; I move through relationship phases, by turns falling in love, hating it, arguing, […]