Maggi Hambling I started looking at Maggi Hamblings work not to long ago in relation to what I am doing at the minute and with her visit soon I thought Id look at her work a little bit more. While […]
These photographs show the responses I have had to recent conversations about my work and some long days in the studio thinking about my work. I have always worked vertically leaving much of the outcome of my work to gravity, […]
With the different emotions that I’m trying to capture using the medium of paint, at the moment I’m now focusing on monochrome colours and start thinking about sound. I encountered the music video titled ‘Blue Jeans’ by Lana Del Rey […]
Writing and Stones – how will my response be? I have scratched into the softer siltstone grey and rust coloured (2 distinct colours) stones. (Trouble getting photo on here). On putting these in water, most of my marks disappear. I […]
Had a really bad day painting last Thursday – lots of self doubt about what I was doing and why, figuration versus non-figuration, etc. This all while painting Sizewell Power Station from the beach on a canvas which seemed a […]
Back to the print room for me. Inspiration could be making a return- “YIPPEE”. Nancy Spero, feminist has been my new No.1 printing source. Nancy was reknowned for her political, social and cultural concerns which she expressed in her works […]
Another painting that spends most of its time under a running tap. With this small experimental piece, I have been applying a thin layer of paint to the entire surface, and then under the tap, I rinse 2/3 of it […]
in January the core management of the group welcomed another member into it. for some time this person had been working with us in a silent partner capacity. in so doing we’ve embarked on some development work as a group, […]
Secondary Imagery – Could it be the answer? To begin with my original idea was to paint from primary sources, mainly photographs taken by myself. I initially wanted to use primary images so I would have full control over composition […]
For my degree project I am going to continue to use the materials that I used for my project last year, wood and rope primarily and perhaps concrete and metal. I intend to simplify my practice to simply exploring material, […]
Carl Andre’s use of material, specifically materials that are almost raw, in that they have been manipulated by man into manageable shapes, is something that I intend to focus on within my own use of material. I love using materials […]
Well it seems ages since my last blog entry-I am still here! Its been a funny old week and I have not done much painting. That is not a bad thing though as the racey pace I have been working […]
A new EU agreement that guarantees artists an equitable share from the resale of their works on the art market has been signed by 17 organisations, including major British auction houses.
Our snapshot of international art action for the end of February finds us in Nimes, Stockholm, Graz, San Francisco and Madrid.
A quick interim blog post to bring you up to date as my final session funded by the re:view bursary is due to take place at the beginning of March. Just before Christmas I had a meeting with my main […]
day 4: Difficult to know whether to focus on physically disrupting the space or using projections to do it. Tried breaking the space up using stretches of fabric, metres and metres of baking paper but neither works – both are […]
Yesterday was one of the most productive trips I’ve had to London for ages. I’m blogging to distil my thoughts to separate the essential wheat from the nice-to-know chaff and I’m aware what I say leaps from one topic to […]
Friday again with desire to write something to further track my progress. as ever i generate thoughts and ponder where to begin. once again i wrestle with my own personal identity politics. the good thing of course is i’m still […]
Franz Ackermann – White Cube I often pay the White Cube a visit whenever I’m in London as there is always a display of exciting contemporary artwork on offer. On browsing the gallery website to see what was on, the […]
I am still working on the Digitise series and other pieces, but have now started to work on ideas that came up in the Photoshoot series. I have started working on photographic images forming the basis of ‘arenas’. The idea […]
Talking to my tutor today about Francis Bacon’s painting techniques. She feels sure that whilst critics talk about him re-working his gestures (going over marks in the still wet paint) – working on an unprimed canvas abosrbs paint straight away […]
Welcome to my first ever blog. This is new territory to me and I am just getting used to things. I work in acrylic paint and am a keen photographer.
One of the perks of having a studio at Spike Island, Bristol, is that – along with funds that we raise running bars at our annual open studios event – 10 percent of our rent is kept aside to fund […]
