9:20am I want to discuss my work abit more critically today as now i am in the studio infront of my colourful display of art and craft. Firstly i want to add a little something random to my blog that […]
It follows that if; ‘everything happens for a reason’, then with a positive spin; ‘every cloud has a silver lining’. These off-the-cuff phrases might seem to some superficially shallow, but it’s no coincidence they are often used during times of […]
One of the artists from the forthcoming Topography Disarranged (there, I’ve committed the title to text, so must stick with it now) landscape show visited the Project Space to discuss siting of their work. It’s a big piece so there […]
These are images of my working space in the studio as it is this moment. Recently I have felt more comfortable experimenting with my painting technique as my confidence has been up. After a very successful blog review with Sarah […]
Right, through the next few posts im going to give you a bit of an insight into the artists that have influenced me and my work. Gunther Von Hagen’s A scientist rather than an artist, but his work still has […]
Antony Gormley Another artist that has influanced me heavily with his use of sculpture and the human figure. Gormley creates striking sculptures, mainly out of metal from, casts of himself and is most famous for his public sculpture “angel of […]
Joseph Marr Joseph Marr has created a series of beautiful sculptures made entirely out of sugar. Employing a variety of traditional and digital techniques, Marr aims to create sensual works that bridge the gap between classical and contemporary art. Many […]
Brian Matthew Hart Hart creates light paintings using pin lights and a long exposure shot. i love the work he creates depicting fingerprints as they are very skilled, with the fact its compleatly dark when your creating them so you […]
Its probably easier to be literal about how the story unfolds and best done through drawing….. A story board How then it might evolve back into an acted or performed event. This could take yeeeeaaaaaarrrrssss.
I have arrived at Guldagergaard International Ceramic Research Centre in Skaelskor, Denmark. It’s great to be back. Last time I was here it was the height of summer (last summer) and what a long hot summer it was! I cycled […]
I have decided to write a series of short scenarios: OK I’ll tell you what I’ll do, I’ll do a sketch with the suggested alterations. I won’t do a large scale fully worked up design yet, and see if the […]
I’ve been thinking about knowledge. Of course I know about German history, the Third Reich, the Holocaust, have learned much at school, through reading, watching documentaries, listening to interviews, visiting two concentration camps, and was almost muted by terror and […]
reflection 4: Getting connected ? Thinking about art, thinking about making art, making art, making applications and proposals can be a solitary task and it easy to feel that all this activity has a very tiny audience. Taking part in […]
The Metrolla Art Hub The 17.30 hours traffic began to slowly empty from Vaconsoft Parkway. X listened as headlights switched on. Red lights glowed briefly as the cars approached numerous junctions of the business park. Cars unlocked…orange lights…doors opening…doors closing. […]
My work surface now resembles the fly tippers paradise I recently reported to the local council (which they did nothing about BTW) Switching from my Liberator/ Memorial installation that I’m making for the NY exhibition, to paper boots for the […]
Sporting League: Game 14 Delta held on to a precious point as they finished a goal a piece against champions and leaders Pointeso. Kite Vale maintained their unprecedented form as they swept aside Chamber Athlete by two goals to nil. […]
“Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.” Henry Ward Beecher http://www.artpromotivate.com/2012/09/famous-inspirational-art-quotes.html Whilst working in collaboration with the World Land Trust in 2013 the CEO John introduced me to artist Frans […]
Further explorations form my sketch book based on the horizon where sea meets the sky. images based on research concerning warm and cool colours and the effects of colours on emotion. First revisting primary colours researching aspects eg Yellow luminocity,captures […]
Exciting and new developments are happening within South London Women Artists (SLWA). We have just become a Limited Company by guarantee and we are in the process of applying for charitable status. SLWA is in it’s 6th year and every […]
Tate Britain, London
5 February – 27 March 2014
Just over a week until I go out to Berlin again. I have been head down in the studio finalising ideas and researching Rococo detailing all over the place. I even spent an afternoon in Tate Britain drawing the picture […]
WORK MAKES WORK So I started this tumblr thing: http://workmakesworks.tumblr.com/ WMW is an attempt to make a place for artists (of any kind) to share their experiences (in a diagram of some kind) of how work has led to more […]
‘The Persistance of Craft’ (a book that had influenced my dissertation as well as my pratical work) primarily looks at how crafts are, and have been, tendered toward the use of minimal, geometric and gestural abstraction which essentially is accompanied […]
I went around in the studio looking for people to draw that have emotions of how I want to feel at the time. I apporached my course mate Yvonne and I asked her how she was feeling and she said […]
