Saying Yes: The Artist As Enabler
Thinking out loud; exploring my work as a creative enabler.
Thinking out loud; exploring my work as a creative enabler.
Narberth Museum in Pembrokeshire will host an exciting workshop with Kate Walters looking at Celtic Mysticism and the Mabinogion. Insights into the ways that Kate uses her Shamanic knowledge to inform her art.
I start my blog by stating that not one piece of my work is truly finished. None of my work is any good to me, it is a constant source of personal agony and fear. Over-dramatic? It may sound that […]
I’m sharing this Just A Card campaign today because as a small business owner this rings true with me everyday I get up and work my socks off to bring new, refreshing and unique designs that you can’t get from […]
A-N Travel Bursary: Research in ‘bio-art’ Amsterdam
The 2016 Mokuhanga Basic Training Program
Introduction to traditional Japanese water based woodblock printmaking
Been working my socks off recently to create some new designs. The first one I’m super excited to share is this personalised dog neckerchief. I went back and forth with the design, style and colour combination but I am now […]
This year is the 30thth Anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster and a new safe confinement structure is, as we speak, being moved over the old reactor No.4. In April this year a group of artists from the North of England […]
Details of the inspiration, process and progress of my current project.
Albany Gallery Cardiff, Oriel y Felin…Oriel CRIC, Erwood Station and all…..
Research and development exploring reconsiderations of landscape through my fine art practice as part of the A-N Travel Bursary 2016
How to look after yourself as a small business owner over the busy Christmas period.
This year I was awarded a professional development bursary from Artists Network to undertake a short residency in Cornwall with some visual artists from Shallal (an inclusive arts charity). This blog post shares my experiences of the residency and what I gained from taking part.
The work in Florae is a visual celebration and exploration of the cycle of birth, decay and re-birth of selected botanical subjects over a specific time period in The National Botanic Garden of Wales.
I’ve reached the second month of the residency in good spirits after having made a productive start on the project in September. I’ve become familiar with the new environment and subject of my current project. I had been spending long days in […]
blog of the non linear artwork installed in the second floor of the museum of making at derby silk mill. it’s part of the arts and heritage pilot programme of the museum. this programme also features work by toni buckby and red saunders.
I’ve been working on this project for a couple of weeks, but have been left with a bitter taste of having nothing concrete . It’s a new idea inspired by the artist , Grayson Perry, known for his decorated ceramic […]
An occasional series of informal, casual reports of my visits to exhibitions and other art events. I am not aiming to provide a review, only to log my thoughts as honestly as I can.
With a history of time-based projects I have decided to commit to creating 50 collages before Christmas
Advancing ideas around the simulacrum, and other questions concerning the copy, the original, and representation, through work produced in my artist’s residency in the printmaking room at the University of Suffolk.
Blog reflecting on my research trip to Portland and New York funded by a-n Travel bursaries.
I have been selected through an application process to exhibit at Collect Open, Saatchi Gallery 3rd – 6th February 2017. To make this large installation work I have received an Arts Council ‘Grants for the Arts’ Award. Follow my works progress in this blog.
This blog follows my progress over a short and intensive period as Artist in Residence at Brighouse Arts Festival in West Yorkshire. Gathering stories, memories and imagery to create a holistic physical response within the grand setting of the old Town Hall.
A Reflection on my MA Fine Art end of year exhibition at Teesside University.
Made in Korea is a cultural conversation between the UK and Korea in ceramics and sound. Taking place throughout 2017 at The Ceramic House, Sladmore Contemporary, British Ceramics Biennial and Mullae Arts Factory, Seoul. Funded by Arts Council England.