Open my door and you’ll be greeted with thousands of upturned, bright and smiling faces, beaming their hellos. Coupled with their earthy, just-trimmed stems scent, how can you resist? Beaming Hellos (mixed media painting on canvas) Shop: Lynne Forrester, Artist: […]
Shared Visual Experiences and Thinking Through Art is abbreviation for SVETTA Art Club for NHS staff working at Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Foundation Trust
The project goes slow, other factors have powers over workshops: sickness, planned activities, sometimes blues on the other side. It seems that art projects are a fluid matter which adapts and changes along with their development. Especially, now, when some […]
Front cover: Back cover: Initially, the idea for a book was very different to the book now. The working concept of the book is the loose associations between objects, labels and diagrams, and the formations of metaphors. I changed […]
Jane finalised the look and lay out of the website, see below. Congruous is up 15 – 21 February and then will be archived available to be viewed for a while after. The website lay out makes our work feel […]
In Swedish one often says ’both and’ rather than just ’both’ – as in ’I want to have both’ (Jag vill ha både och). This feels particularly relevant at the moment. In eleven days I will have two studios: one […]
so it’s now february and the internals of the museum have taken shape and the recant of the collections is well underway. the non linear work now has a presence on site with the installation of the hardware. […]
Curator Polly Brannan part of cohort to receive bespoke professional development opportunity that works to develop leaders from across a wide range of cultural disciplines and sectors.
12th Feb sub zero frozen landscape before me. Light was bright and crystal blue. New Moon. Results from the first tests encouraged me to find a larger waterproof pouch to submerge my cyanotypes in the pools overnight. The results from […]
Using the bird hide which historically was an observation point (until it was burnt down) I am embarking on some small experiments. I like the idea of using an old observation point for these new observations and conversations with plants. […]
British Egyptian artist Nazir Tanbouli ushered in 2021 with a solo show of paintings at Cairo’s Picasso gallery.
It always astounds me how plants appear to have a head for heights. Plants don’t feel wobbly (or they disguise it well if they do!) or fall off ladders unless someone wobbles them. Is this a tip for life? Stand […]
McLeavy will manage the next phase of Humber Street Gallery’s evolution to become a vibrant creative centre in Hull.
Too many hashtags can be “annoying” (Newberry, 2020) and ruin your business’ Instagram – “11 hashtags is a good number to start with” (Newberry, 2020). Niche hashtags work better than popular ones. Once an artist is well known – […]
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I attended a Living Art online life session today and was delighted to have the chance to draw body artist and contortionist Francoise. Working in my favourite charcoal this time, sometimes it’s lovely to create in a familiar medium for a change. […]
A visual art exhibition of over a dozen mixed media and acrylic paint based wall hung collage style Canvas based artworks accompanied by a digital guide, a making of video and associated sounds.
Grace before Jones Art Exhibition – Nottingham Contemporary – Visit and View with Marcus and his Mum
