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Gallery Watching – mid way
I’m now into the seventh month of my Gallery Watching project and I am so excited by the possiblities it has opened up for my drawing and for my practice as a whole. And the conversations I have with the […]
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Gallery Watching
My Gallery Watching project at Ruthin Craft Centre and Oriel Davies, Newtown is now at its halfway point. To read how it has been progressing do visit my Gallery Watching blog: https://gallerywatching.ellenbell.co.uk/
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Gallery Watching blog
I’ve begun a monthly blog sharing my experiences about doing the project on my own website – here is the link: https://gallerywatching.ellenbell.co.uk/
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Gallery Watching
My Gallery Watching live reportage-drawing project begins tomorrow Tuesday 20th September at Ruthin Craft Centre and then Wednesday 21 September at Oriel Davies Newtown. I’m both nervous and excited!
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Destruction
My Gallery Watching project starts next month and my drawing practice has increased a pace, with my intention to make a drawing every day so far being kept. And the self-challenging never stops (I now dream about drawing continually) whether […]
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Different Tables
I try to push myself, to challenge the safe, the comfortable. We sat at a different table. It was near the door and with a view of the barista’s work space. I wasn’t comfortable. And people joining the queue kept […]
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Circus
I need to test myself. And drawing at the circus seemed a good idea at the time. It was hard. Harder than I thought I would be. I remember circuses as a child being lit up inside the big top. […]
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Marks & Spencer
I try to keep the practice alive. Mostly it is a daily breathing in and out, a trying, except that is when I have writing to do. Like today. Sometimes I can manage to write in the morning and do […]
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‘Keeping on, keeping on.’
My ACW funded project doesn’t begin until mid September but I’m still trying to uphold my resolution to make a drawing every day. It’s an up and down thing, and sometimes just a case of following the tracks. I’ve been […]
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Ebbing & Flowing (+ they said YES)
They said yes. I’ve been awarded a grant after the second try. I begin my Gallery Watching in September. The fear of what I have left myself in for comes and goes, as does my confidence in my drawing. Nevertheless, […]
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Need
It’s a compunction that certainly began at art school. Drawing was always held up to be the ultimate in expression, the fundament of it, if not the whole. For me it has gone beyond that, though I must admit to […]
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Sketchbooks
I’ve been thinking about sketchbooks. They are beautiful things, well they can be. I love the paraphernalia of them, the elasticated straps that hold them in place, the endpapers, the red ribbons that save a page. I like them small, […]