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So it has been just a few days and i have done some online reading with regards to the testing that happens on beagles throughout the UK and abit throught the USA. I want to concentrate on the UK as […]

Re:view Bursary News I am delighted to have received the a-n Re:view bursary to research the planning stages of the Manse Project 15. This means I can start arranging meetings with my chosen peer group in Coventry, Manchester, and Tampere. […]

The Possibilities of Social Realism? I have been giving some thought as to the possibilities of perhaps utilising iconic compositions to explore issues of status and equality for this project. I have looked at the work of other artists who […]

Graduate Studios Me and Michael Borkowsky and currently putting together a plan to create a set of artist lead studios for recent graduates in Sheffield. I wanted to write a blog about why I feel that this would be a […]

day two: the light is very different today, pushing its way in through the windows in a half hearted way – it’s hesitant movement counterbalanced by the tack tack tack of the stone mason’s hammer, the electric whirr of the […]

Ten minutes in the studio this morning and I come to a realisation on how I see my work. My fascination with water, dripping and colour and nature all stem from my fear of loss and the need to keep […]

‘Purple painting’ This is another A2 sized painting I have started. Again it has quite a few layers already. Though almost all of them have occurred at the sink with the help of a running tap, this canvas has also […]

Lately I have been spending more time in my studio space experimenting with different ways of applying paint and experimenting with acrylic and oil paints. I have been using my sketch book for these experiments and to try out different […]

Ruth Payne Picking up from Ros Barker’s awesome baking parchment scrolls, featuring figures traced & drawn from magazines/newspapers, I’ve made a pierced figurative tracing on the same medium. These are photos of the parchment held up to the light of […]

I spent the morning in my studio space today, I started off by testing some acrylic colours in my sketch book and oil paints onto a small canvas board. Like I said before, for me to progress I need to […]

Transitions continued… Our human condition is such that we are forever in the situation of deciding how much attention to give to self-generated thought and how much to information from the external social or physical environment. http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/10/09/mind-wandering-and-creativity/ My pushing forward […]

Transitions… as I move on into creating visual art that is my reponse to the restoring qualities of nature, I have been reflecting on why it has been nessesary to change direction…I feel like the change of direction in my […]

Supermarket Art Fair, Stockholm, 14-16 February 2014 Part 1/5 With my rubbish newspapers hot of the press, I flew to Stockholm to begin distribution at Supermarket Art Fair with Paper Gallery. I got there in time for the preview and […]

Supermarket Art Fair, Stockholm, 14-16 February 2014 Part 2/5 Friday, and Valentine’s day, I went with Matt and Toby to the Moderna Museet which just so happened to be free entry to celebrate Valentine’s. The was a Gabriel Orozco show […]

Supermarket Art Fair, Stockholm, 14-16 February 2014 Part 3/5 Saturday morning was spent digesting the literature while Toby napped: Supermarket exhibition catalogue and magazine (Issue #4). One side lists the exhibitors as the catalogue part and on the flip side […]

Supermarket Art Fair 4/5 Going and visiting the other booths with my newspaper and rubbish talk seemed a better approach as the exhibitors were often tied to staying at their booth and taking shifts with a few other people to […]

Supermarket Art Fair, Stockholm, 14-16 February 2014 Part 5/5 Then I took a proper look at Qwerty’s booth while it was a bit quieter on Sunday morning. In the entrance to one side of the 3rd third floor, and popular […]

I have been working hard in the print room today printing the first 9 etchings of my 22 print series. It is only when you ink up your etching plate that you can begin to get an idea of how […]

Back again! I’m finding having this blog a really useful way to structure some of my thoughts in the madness of the Joy Orchestra project. This week I started an intensive week of filming at the Welsh college of Music […]

For most of last week I was in London visiting galleries, soaking up the culture (and the water!) in the pouring rain! Whilst this explains my absence on here for most of last week I must now apologize for the […]

Since are review with our tutors I have really been trying to push myself with my work and this has been really hard for me. I have started by taking lots of photos of myself without any makeup on and […]

Some more images that I took of myself, I have done a mix of all different images took over a few days, some with makeup on some without and half and half. I really cannot stand looking at images of […]