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A close up of an assemblage of painted and crumpled papers in neutral and jarring tones. Yellow and Whites text reads: Testing Ground, Emma Bolland.
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A Residency Diary for Testing Ground

Testing Ground is Yorkshire Artspaces’s residency programme at Exchange Place Studios, providing a supported and intensive period of creative experimentation for an artist based in Sheffield. I am delighted to be their 2025 artist in residence.

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Mapping on …

Still here, still working, still mapping after a fashion

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Why do I paint?

I think when someone asks me why I paint, I always struggle to answer immediately. For me, it feels like second nature – like asking someone why they go outside or why they eat. But when I start to dig […]

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Above and Below

ABOVE AND BELOW Above and Below an exciting, immersive, soundscape/textile installation by
artist Carole Miles, storyteller Philippa Tipper, assisted by Steve Hatton, Kate
Dyer, members of the community project – Supported using public funding by Arts Council England

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Threads

The increasingly intense exploration of drawing, and the threads between words, sounds, music, lines…

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Lynne Forrester, Artist: March 2025 Boldbrush Contest Entries. 3 paintings Wild Abandon, Singing The Blues and Neighbourly Knowing) shown on a wall next to two plants. Vote sign at top of the image.
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Boldbrush Art Contest Entries

Every month I enter the Boldbrush Art Contest. This blog shows my entries and the links to vote.

Thank you in advance for voting, each one makes such a difference :)

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DIY residency

I set up my own DIY residency in Chania, Crete, during Jan-Feb 2025. This blog describes my early thoughts and inspirations, and how I developed ideas into final work for a gallery show. Since then I have continued with the blog, as a basis for development of new work.

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Project Me

Charting the progress of my practice since 2007 – a-n’s longest running blog!

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Painting delivery

A day trip to Pembrokeshire, South Wales to deliver paintings.

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something by cecil

from feeling stationary and isolated – an experimental research project considering isolation through adulthood play.

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Best & Lee at Martino Gamper show, 2014
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Keeping It Going

My first blog ‘Keeping It Together’ came to a natural end when I moved in to my studio. ‘Keeping It Going’ picks up where that left off. Will I be able to maintain a blog at the same time as […]

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