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Looking at the strange in the most normal of places. Introducing the unnerving in the average setting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cd2aov8HpRY this is a short video i did in my 1st year. Stop motion. The music is by Josh Wink. i’m quite proud of this one!

Running with the theme of investigations, i decided to look at the apple, in charcoal at first then moved into pastels. Placing it in various places in the Home. Eventually i began to think of the meaning of the apple […]

What do Ellie Breeze and Lizz Brady have in common? On leaving Cambridge School of Art, Ellie Breeze co-founded the Motion Sickness art collective as a means of staying connected, and also to create opportunities to show work and to […]

Back to a family lockdown. essentials are bought and the camera is out to document

These are the samples of rubbings I did today in the school of art. I used layout paper, which produced finer rubbings because the GSM is lower, and layout paper was suitable for tracing. I like both samples because they […]

I’m very happy with the way these trial runs came out. They are Rocket Pots – shaped with 50’s sci fi in my mind and decorated by the elements.

These are mugs made for a friend. I’m not sure if making mugs demotes my practice. There is a weird crossover between art and craft and fine art and design that I don’t understand. Quality of make is really important […]

I’m overjoyed with these Rocket Pots. They were hand thrown from white stoneware clay and colours were chosen to represent the temperature at the time of decoration. Blues are cooler, yellow warm and oranges and red the warmest. The shape […]

I’ve collected the pieces from laser cut this afternoon. They seem to be a good size to drop in a space. I’m questioning myself whether to get the missing piece laser cut, because I think it’s interesting that it’s not […]

At Home yesterday. The brief was to look at other ways of creating a drawing. Experiment with household items etc. With this i decided to blot toilet tissue with Acrylic paint (very carefully) and work into the image, blending a […]

Getting back to business in the studio after the Covid lockdown was a triumph! although the primer did need a really good stir!

I have 5 screenprints in my current show at the Open Eye Gallery in Edinburgh. On until the 24th October – you can visit online if you can’t get there in person – www.openeyegallery.co.uk I first tried printmaking a few […]

I did a presentation where I looked at what work had previously done as well as what I was working on and where I am thinking of taking my work. By doing presentations I find that I’m able to see […]

I am currently having my first solo show with a gallery, the Open Eye Gallery in Edinburgh. What a time to have a show! I was awarded this exhibition in February 2019 at the Visual Arts Scotland Open Exhibition ‘Alight’. […]

  A recent collage exploring identity and the environment.  What a year to become an A-N Board Member! As I look back over a year of Board Meetings and pre-lockdown events I’m beginning to understand the purpose of my being […]