I am in the final year of a BA degree at City & Guilds of London Art School. Painting is my main activity, but I also enjoy printmaking and drawing.
Our degree show will be in June, and I will be attempting to use this blog to document the journey towards it. For most of the first term I was preoccupied with my dissertation. Those were handed in a few weeks ago, and we are now free to focus on work in the studio. My mind has certainly turned towards the final show, and whereas previously I was making work more as sketches, trying out ideas, now I am much more conscious of the need to make finished pieces.
The next stage is an interim assessment, taking place in less than two weeks. I have at least one piece I want to finish before then.
Also in progress are two large paintings. I have rough ideas for how they might turn out, and have just finished building the stretchers for them. They will be a development from a large drawing made before the Christmas break. It’s good to feel a sense of progress, building on work done before. I hope I can continue this momentum until the show.
