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What a Day!! Last proper day of university, and it was full of last minute touch ups to paintings and a lot of stress, touched with excitement and a lovely camaraderie between fellow students. I spent a fair bit of […]
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Last post: I have been painting studio space for the last couple of days in preparation to hang my paintings for degree show. There is definitly a feeling in the studios of excitement and camaraderie between students. Work is being […]
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Possibly my last blog before hand in. The last three years has flown by!! Looking back I have wrestled with many areas of university life. It has been the most rewarding and frustrating time of my life. I am constantly […]
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Two photos to follow. I imagine they will be the last two to post on this blog as they will be the last two paintings that will possibly be in my final degree exhibition. I have been a little distracted […]
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Found the group tutorial interesting and insightful. Talking about one’s work is always difficult, especially when one’s work in very personal. I have come to the realisation that painting portraits is relevant, and my compulsion to paint the people who […]
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My painting from my imagination. It tells a story. I have struggled with this work due to working in a completlely different way. Having no reference points except those in my head it is really a challenge. I don’t particular […]
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I have watched ‘The British Face’ several times now….a DVD about portraiture, in association with London’s National Portrait Gallery by the Irish actress and theate director Fiona Shaw. What a relevation!!. Shaw interviews painters such as Stuart Pearson Wright to […]
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I have been looking at the British Portrait Awards. Looking through one of their exhibition brochures…I once again became fascinated by the differences in style and approach by the various artists. I was particularly impressed by Charlotte Harris…who went on […]
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I have been looking at artists Jenny Saville, Francoise Neilly, Nick Leapord and Luca Pailizzi. Jenny Saville paints fairly disturbing portraits of mainly women and some men in various stages of surgery.Her work features copious amounts of flesh, distorted and […]
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Coming back to the question WHY I paint faces/people, and does there have to be a WHY? Well,Yes, I believe there does. Artist’s are led by influences that motivate them to paint what they paint. Sometimes a bit of digging […]
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Trying to understand WHY over the three years at uni I have been drawn to painting portraits. Its been my biggest hurdle trying to understand my own compulsion to keep painting faces. Does there have to be WHY? WHY NOT? […]
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I have been working on several paintings. Working at home has been working for me recently as all the time at uni has been taken up with the degree auction. Now that is finished, time to start work in the […]