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The hanging is finished!! It looks exactly how I envisioned it and more. When you eneter the space everywhere you look around there is something to look at so there’s an intimate feeling when you are inside. Curating the space […]
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I’ve finished my big self-portrait and also the black and white painting of my friend Leyla. Here’s some zoomed in sections of each painting, not showing to much don’t won’t give anything away. Just need to finish my last painting […]
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Alot has happened since I done my latest post!! I got the three canvases for the paintings that will be the main focus for the show. I got two canvses that are 120 x 80cm and the biggest one which […]
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Yesterday was a busy day, sorting out spaces to place our final degree show, which is just over a month’s time. We discussed spaces that would be available to be used, and listed my name in a couple. just incase […]
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Where am I? Looking back at my blog I feel my ideas have changed quite abit as the posts keep coming. I started off painting portraits that are one tonal and detecting an emotion that may seem obvious what it […]
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Artist Michael Landy came to UCS not long ago, and talked to us about his art career from when he had a piece of work selected on the BBC TV show ‘Take Hart’, and how his career went from that […]
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Today I went into the black space in the studio and projected my video onto the wall to see how it looks in a dark closed environment. The experiment went really well however the only problem I did have was […]
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Reflecting back to the previous Bacon post, I found a video of Bacon talking about how he uses photography in his work. He was inspired by paintings by Van Gogh, Valazquez and many more artists and he also works from […]
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Going back to the last few posts, I talked about Hambling’s installation ‘War Requiem’. I mentioned about doing a video of my textured self-portrait and I have now created one and uploaded it to youtube. The video is 3 minutes […]
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Talking to some people at the UCS show at Marylebone Church in London, it was mentioned that my painting has a haunting religious element to it and fits well with the surroundings . I did find it strange seeing the […]
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We had the art auction a couples weeks ago and it went really well, here’s the piece I submitted for the auction a portrait of David Bowie. Yesterday I went to the Marylebone Parish Church in London for the Contemporary […]
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From the Maggi Hambling talk that was a few weeks ago now, I was inspired by her installation at the 2013 SNAP Festival titled ‘War Requiem’. All the paintings in the building are portrait of of battlefield scenes, and she […]