Art From London Markets, a-n feature

Having been quite excited by some of the connections which have come out of Parallax I have been knocked sideways by a horrible bug, and stuck with a fuzzy brain and floppy body, which leaves me challenged by a few looming deadlines, so I am not going to write much here, apart from a few small thoughts on the process of making. These thoughts really are small because my thought processes have not recovered completely.

Art is a physical process as well as an intellectual one, and a reflective process too. While I may start off with a lot of thinking and a bit of drawing and fiddling about, researching, and I certainly start of with some kind of process of collecting……. ideas, media, marks. However much preparation I may have done: While in the making I need both my brain to be working to allow properly for reflective interactions with the piece, and my levels of physical wellness to be there for the physical act of actually making. The tranformative process requires the whole of you.

I have collected a load of material with my daughter for a small project “bedload”- we want to make a piece for a show with an invitation to collaborate in our process, and tonight and tommorow night we need to assemble it reflectively, I have kept putting it off but now we are close to a deadline….

For some photos of the project so far go to artfromlondonmarket.blogspot.com

When I am better I will write about our full process and thoughts.

And this got me thinking; those artists who work through illness and disability, well that’s stunning, because at the moment I am finding it so difficult to do. Which makes me all the more inspired by artists like Paul Brown who have faced and met challenges to health and make fabulous work.