Kenn Gordon has been around for quite a number of years as a gigging musician, luthier and author. Kenn started out on his long musical career way back in 1968 with his first paid gig. Around the same period he […]
Charting the progress of my practice since 2007 – a-n’s longest running blog!
Notes from a Residency at Brisons Veor. November 2024
I’m currently in my second year of a practice-led, full-time Drawing Research PhD at Leeds Beckett University, where I am looking at how drawing can help us to understand loss. In my search for evidence of loss, I’ve been drawing empty chairs and spaces in care homes.
The art project will focus on my years spent in Bulgaria. There, I found a strong connection with nature, met friends for life, learned how to be a foreigner, and appreciated family and national traditions, customs, art and culture. More than thirty apart, I feel the same warmnes
Research project funded by the Edward James Foundation (West Dean College of Arts & Conservation) walking-with texts and imagery from the archive to explore the more than industrial values of forests towards aesthetic, imaginal, and relational values.
Here I’m reflecting on the new training course I’ve developed about how to share art for wellbeing with other people, and five words I see as building blocks to do just that
November 2025 Exhibition of Julija Greaves new paintings all welcome Nottinghamshire
Can’t paint, can’t NOT paint.
Reflections and Practice from my residency at Backlit Studios in Nottingham and Quad in Derby.
I am a late discovered autistic artist. I am awaiting a formal diagnosis.
I have been reviewing my life through a new lens, an alternative perspective on my interpretation on my artistic life.
I’ve called this blog ‘I draw’ because my art-work is centred on Drawing. I am an artist from Margate.
Reflections on the RD1st Coaching Course 2017 and beyond. Course fees funded and attendance supported by a bursary from a-n The Artist Information Company
Hi, I’m Helen Fox .im a sewing enthusiast
Ive just retired from 40 years teaching Textiles and Art
On the River Crane and Northcote Nature Reserve
Aidan Moesby’s curatorial practice explores deep interconnectedness through a lens of disability and intersectionality. Access and inclusion are at the heart of his care-based practice including Disability and mainstream representation across digital and physical platforms.
Carbon Synthesis is an international project to reveal the possibilities of linking art and science to transform perceptions of liminal wetland landscapes; revealing the effects of climate change across the globe by visualising the (in)visible.
A long-term collaboration between ArtCan and ÖSKG/Tjörnedala Konsthall based on connecting across physical and metaphorical borders to break down cultural, social and political barriers.
How football fanzines helped me personally and professionally
Posts include: ‘Makers HeadRoom’ – a makers group using Zoom to work together online; the ‘Artists Insight’ mentoring sessions, the theory of ‘The Creative Cycle’ and articles about drawing, persistence, learning, earning and being male
What do you hope to explore or express? How do you want to feel while creating? By asking these questions, you create a framework for your practice that is both meaningful and transformative.
Short blog from Victoria Albuquerque about primary sources of inspiration.
Do we start new things in January because we imagine its a clean slate, a step into a new position or is it because we have had time to reflect? Each year I look forward to what the other day, […]
Pictures at an Exhibition – how the outsider artist in me is making things harder than they need to be.
Crossing mediums – connecting the dots between painting, making and exhibiting.
Domestika had automatic access to my bank account
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