Exhibitions and events from a-n members, plus other major shows, including British Art Show 9 and Jerwood Art Fund Makers Open.
Yesterday I had really interesting conversations with three visitors at the show/live work. Not having had the time to write (nor even reflect!) since coming in the gallery last Wednesday I feel as though I am ’out of order’ – […]
Drawing in monochrome felt like a radical twist from my colourful works, but also came as a release. I got to focuse on various locations/objects to depict from the village of Partizany,Bulgaria. The main challenges I have faced were layering, […]
As part of the AN coach training in 2018 we also received coaching, and I have been coached on and off ever since. Now, I spend more time in my studio making art. I take my artwork to it’s completion, […]
Things I have learned. How coaching is affecting my art, my practice, my life.
Humanising…
Bringing together a group of refugees and asylum seekers showing their their vulnerable side within an exhibition.
Marwan’s practice is said to be defined as a continual process of internal burrowing. That impulse to locate and translate an inner state of being ties together a neo-expressionist perspective on the healing properties of art and painting. Marwan’s work […]
‘The Gift’ detail Painted for the 70th anniversary of Snowdonia National Park (2021) Often, painting with a philosophy to explore means separating the elements out to manage ideas. When re-reading about colour theory and the Impressionists painters these two paintings […]
As part of the AN coach training in 2018 we also received coaching, and I have been coached on and off ever since. Now, I spend more time in my studio making art. I take my artwork to it’s completion, […]
My practice focuses on the parameters of the ‘object’ and the multiple purposes and sentimental readings objects can possess. In this new body of work I pose questions around object worth, acts of mass production and duality of purpose within […]
Part of the reason that I began a daily drawing practice was in anticipation of a project for which I’d applied for funding. I heard over the weekend that I’d failed to secure it. One of their reasons for refusing […]
This week for the first time in months I managed to set aside a whole day for my practice. Having not had a chance to paint for so long it felt like loosening rusty joints, with screeches, squeaks and scrapes […]
Suitable for the backwards/forwards looking nature of January, I’ve titled the painting completed last week ‘Hindsight’. Here’s a better quality photo of it (taken with both daylight and studio lighting) Looking forward, I’ve created a new series of images to […]
After my last post about the frantic activity of bid writing, things have turned around a little… For some reason I always forget what it feels like, The Slump. I know it is coming and I predict it. But somehow […]
Time waits for no one… So many people who write blogs start their posts with references to time – how much time has passed since last writing, how inconceivable it is that it’s been so long and so on. I […]
