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I have made 80 paintings this year so far and plan to make 285 more. http://threehundredandsixtyfivepaintings.wordpress…
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Untitled blog post from "Study for a Landscape"
Made some new paintings recently. What I think I like most about these paintings is the size of them. They are all 7.2 cm squared and I’ve never really worked on such small a scale before. The content also seems […]
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Almost exactly a year after my plan, I re-visit my plan and discover that it is not going to plan. At all. This was my plan: “A Plan 1) Become more motivated and do more visual research 2) When not […]
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Reasons Vs. Excuses Yesterday I completed a painting I’d promised to do for my Dad for Christmas. He wanted me to paint from a photograph of his house in Cyprus. Well, actually he wanted me to paint from two, to […]
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A Plan 1) Become more motivated and do more visual research 2) When not in work, make work 3) Continue to blog 4) Apply for residencies 5) Get rejected, but apply for more 6) Keep getting rejected, keep applying, every […]
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This brings us pretty much up to date. I made some paintings influenced by the effect of light within the TV painting shown at Telford’s. But the trouble with paint, is that there’s no real substitute for light, other than […]
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21 August 2011 I was involved in a one-night-only exhibition at Telford’s Warehouse in Chester. http://www.telfordswarehousechester.com/ Including an open mic night, musical and performance pieces, the whole thing was a bit performing artsy. It added a different context for my […]
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5 – 27 May 2011 ‘Beyond These Walls’ was the first exhibition at Contemporary Art Space Chester and the second showing by Chester Artist Collective. http://www.chester.ac.uk/node/8448 I made one of my Landscape works, by applying oil paint directly on to […]
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1-6 November 2010 I was involved in an exhibition in Christ Church, Chester called ‘The Conversation’, the first exhibition by Chester Artists Collective. http://chesterartistcollective.co.uk/ Intrigued by a pile of framed pictures, gathering dust on the very back row of pews, […]
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I can find it really difficult to link words with pictures and make them make sense and fluency together. This is especially so at the start of a project, when I’m still experimenting with concepts and how to illustrate them. […]
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9 June 2010 San Giminiano Hazy memory / poor photograph, memory of a landscape, memory of a photograph of a landscape. Why did I think about a particular place and why this particular place? Unsure about any of the details, […]
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9 August 2010 Painting subconscious landscapes. The Repetitive Unconscious. It’s not so much about the portrayal of a landscape, but the portrayal of the the idea of one. A subconscious landscape, searching for a landscape that might not be there. […]