Karen Howse
Artist explorer based in North Cornwall. North Cornwall
This is the final week before the MA assessments and the show opens to the public. I have finally found a soulution to my angst over the final show. I was finding it difficult to see how I could show […]
Only a few months to go before the MA show in a room at Lamorva Painting studio. My work is so concerned with the approach and process i am finding it difficult to be goal orientated and think about making […]
I visited the Jerwood Drawing Prize exhibition at the Burton Art Gallery in Bideford on friday. It was an interesting experience, which made me acknowlege the importance of drawing in my own practice. This prize shows the huge diversity in […]
In essay mode now. We’ve been told we need the 1st draft in by the 23rd March. I have only just started it! The essay helps make sense of the work in words, but its hard to do the art […]
My computer has died, so no pictures this post. How do you balance the theory/writing with the art? Mybe its worse on an MA course, i just don’t seem to be able to flit seamlessly from writing to making. I […]
Just beginning to realise how dissapointed I was with the pinhole camera failure. How much is bouncing back from these hiccups a part of having resilience as an artist? I recently read an interesting book. Hare brain, Tortoise Mind by […]
The final stretch of the course is upon us and I have a sneaky feeling time is going to speed up from now until August and the final show. I am still wrapped up in experimental mode and resisting the […]
The crit went well, and I got some thoughtful feedback on the work. It feels like a real privilege to have a group of people spend focused time with your work. They seemed to understand it. In our crit format […]
Just made a series of ink drawings responding to place for my college crit. We have a project space to show work in progress or present finished work as an exhibition. I have chosen to show work in process. All […]
This week has been about exploring presence and absence through drawing! I’ve been continuing with the 52 ink drawings in the woods, and am now re-making them in the studio. Re making the marks and adding colours from memory and […]
The blogger interview was well worth taking part in. It is interesting to be pushed to approach your art practice from a different perspective. My aim this week is to bury myself in work. Why do I always feel like […]
College has started in earnest again, so I’m back to my usual tired mode from too much travelling and sleeping on a friend’s floor. I have been doing quite a bit of research in the library though, and come up […]