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I’ve been thinking about how best to present some of my photography in my degree show and have decided to make a book. This will be a story told by images and few words. The images will be drawn from […]
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Untitled blog post from "BA (hons) Fine Art"
Over the Easter break I have had some of my paintings framed and done more work on two of my canvas paintings (with a view to choosing some of this work for my final degree show). I’ve also had time […]
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Untitled blog post from "BA (hons) Fine Art"
I am looking forward to revisiting Orford Ness when it is open to visitors again and making more work based on my perceptions as I walk there. In the meantime I have been researching other artists inspired by this unique […]
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Untitled blog post from "BA (hons) Fine Art"
I’ve been reflecting on the role this blog has played for me. The blog has helped me greatly to stop and reflect on previous work so that I can learn from past strengths and weaknesses. For example I consider my […]
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Untitled blog post from "BA (hons) Fine Art"
I was thinking again about the sublime and how the theories of the sublime relate to my work. Last year I researched the sublime in the work of the photographer Andreas Gursky. I learnt that the sublime is an evolving […]
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Untitled blog post from "BA (hons) Fine Art"
On Wednesday evening I went to see the opening of the Contemporary British Painters exhibition at the crypt gallery Marlebone Church. It was a lovely gallery in which to display the work and I enjoyed the evening. My painting, Wasteland […]
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Untitled blog post from "BA (hons) Fine Art"
Yesterday, a painting day in my studio. I’m looking forward to going out and about again to draw and paint but the atmosphere outside has been bad – news channels are reporting high levels of air pollution over large parts […]
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Untitled blog post from "BA (hons) Fine Art"
Today, the news carries reports of the findings of a UN panel on climate change. They are now definitely linking climate change to human activity and predicting increased flooding and heatwaves as the ice floes melt and the sea level […]
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Untitled blog post from "BA (hons) Fine Art"
Today I was looking at some of the sketches of structures in my copy of the book Barbara Rae Sketchbooks. I enjoy the looseness, colour and line of her sketches which are made outdoors. They inspire me to paint my […]
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Untitled blog post from "BA (hons) Fine Art"
Another place that seems to conjure the sublime for me is Dunwich with its strange contradictions e.g. the Sizewell nuclear power station and the Minsmere bird sanctuary. The work that I started based on the Gorse Walk at Dunwich Heath […]
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Untitled blog post from "BA (hons) Fine Art"
Now seems like a good time to reflect on what I have written so far and where I am at now and where I feel that I am going with my degree project. I started by looking at artists who […]
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Untitled blog post from "BA (hons) Fine Art"
This painting was made today – it is inspired by one of the photographs that I took during a visit to Orford Ness earlier in the year when I walked round the place. I wanted to capture the sense of […]