Another direction and style for number 21, Making Up For Lost Time, using mostly my photography plus a bit of created acrylic texture complimented by found graphic material. Yes the bees are mine too!
Untitled, Gillian Lock-Bowen, 2016, 182.88 cm x 121.92 cm x 30.48 cm The images above demonstrate developments in a series of drawings based on an idea I was processing about substructures in my abstract paintings. While these underlying structures are […]
The 20th of 50 Collages Before Christmas is “Gone The Days Of Rainbows”, a minimalist offering that harks back to collage work that I did a couple of years back in the way of studies for large paintings that I […]
The latest edition of the biennial Jerwood Makers Open award sees five UK-based artists awarded £7,500 each to create new works for a touring exhibition that opens in London in June 2017.
Four photographers, including Sophie Calle and Dana Lixenberg, have been shortlisted for the £30,000 international prize run by London’s The Photographers’ Gallery.
(Written on the plane back from Seoul) Today was going to be a busy one. Having made the appointment before realising that my flight, although leaving on the 2nd, was actually just after midnight on the 1st (which meant I […]
“The intellect, by nature, is a spatializing mechanism. To acquire knowledge it employs concepts, symbols, abstraction, analysis and fragmentation. The intellect gives us a fragmented but necessary, pragmatic grasp of reality, whereas intuition is the means with which to grasp […]
This week’s selection includes Bloomberg New Contemporaries in London, a retrospective of renowned political artist Gee Vaucher and art in the environment at the Jerwood Space.
Found image. (cropped) Photographer unknown. ‘I Always Wanted To Be … ‘ Work continues behind the scenes as the deadline for completing the short film (‘I Always Wanted To Be …’ ) grows ever closer. I’ve left things in […]
Tuesday 9th of August 2016 The super talented artist Wuon-Gean Ho has invited me to be featured in an article she will write for Printmaking Today. We initially met a year ago, when I was artist in residence at the […]
Over the summer i took part in a 5 days stone carving workshop at Yorkshire Sculpture Park. This was the second part of my A-N Professional Development Bursary support. On reflection of this year it was one of the best things […]
The feelings I had at this moment in time came flooding back as I engaged with the paint. The chance image created during the work on the larger canvas and later by dividing it into several smaller pieces, has been […]
I have been looking at this latest large painting which was influenced by research into Jackson Pollocks work. Initially it seemed to work but there is something wrong. My Reflective Journal is at last making sense to me. Through re-reading […]
I had a meeting with Prudence Maltby and Susan Francis the other two founder members of Cicatrix. Toby Smith, the director of the Salisbury International Arts Festival has been approached about showing Catherine Farish’s Stonehenge series of prints in the 2017 […]
It may have seemed a little quiet on this blog – but there is lots of post residency work in progress. The first 8 minutes of a film is available on Vimeo here. I’m trying to make it about the experience of […]
A few pictures of a local community event that we went to, plus some of paper making processes at Nenba.
As a continuation of some of the ideas posted in my last blog post, I started to develop and work with the video footage I’d generated of me touching my own face and head in an investigative fashion. The original video […]
Then it snowed here , the first time in 50 odd years that it has snowed so early in the winter – on my birthday too, what a treat. The area transformed into a magical landscape…. snow eggs and all! […]
A landscape from a sketch of the Lake, before it snowed!
These are all steps on the way to the final version : 4 blocks I tried using bokashi, using just sumi ink ( black) , rotating the block …. the final version has the Prussian blue bokashi as homage to […]
There are lots of great things to do …. and although the studio hours were 9 til 6 luckily the weekend weather was pretty good so we got out and about to the reconstructed village of Nemba, walked some of […]
