Over the past 5 or 6 weeks I’ve been producing work in response to my day trips to Colne and Nelson. In an earlier post I talked about making collages and quick abstract responses with paint and ink which were […]
A couple of weeks ago I carried out my second residency day this time visiting Nelson, a neighbouring town of Colne and home of The Shop. I’ve previously mentioned The Shop, a creative space ran by In Situ, and the support […]
Over the weekend I posted a brief round up of my time in Colne last Friday and today I want to go into a little bit more detail about how the day went and how I felt about it. As […]
The Royal Birmingham Society of Artists (RBSA) has announced a brand new festival for 2016, opening up the world of printmaking to artists, beginners and families. Printmaking is an art form in which an image is made on a block, […]
My residency day in Colne took place on Friday and it was a mixed experience for me. For the past year I’ve had my heart set on a residency believing it to be the key to finding out where my […]
This week I’ve finally made some progress with Think, Question, Print and I’m hurtling towards my first residency day in Colne, Lancashire. I haven’t been completely neglecting the project over the past few weeks though; I’ve been making plans for […]
After settling on a location for my self-directed residency I need to begin thinking about what I want to achieve during this time. The main aim for the research day(s) in Colne, Nelson and (possibly) Brierfield is to immerse myself […]
The final days of the collaborative print residency at Kala art institute in Berkeley, California were full of productivity and decision making. We decided on a title for the series of prints, while also editing the selection from 20 to […]
With the final week of our residency in front of us, we both individually and methodically responded to the final prints in the collaboration. Each of us left our most challenging contributions to the last few days in the studio, […]
As the collaboration progressed, we both conferred about the development of our responses. On several occasions we felt stuck, or frustrated that the idea we had wasn’t working in print. At these times we talked it through, eager to glean […]
As soon as we exchanged our prints I felt comfortable about responding to Guillaume’s work. The prints were open and left space enough for me to have a dialogue within them. There were a few prints that I initially found […]
The weeks are flying by and I need to make a choice about the location for my ‘residency’. At the moment I’m keen to use one whole day for exploration and observation – during this time I don’t want to […]
In creating prints, I often have the finished image in mind before setting out creating it. I don’t naturally work in this way, but many printmaking methods require this kind of planning and preparation, especially woodblock printmaking. With this collaboration […]
So after last week’s bombshell vote in favour of Brexit I feel slightly compelled to angle the project towards the issues that could potentially emerge from this for artists. This may be a knee jerk reaction on my part but […]
A blog documenting the progress of my project funded by an A-N Professional Development Bursary.
With each week into the residency at Kala art Institute, we became a part of the community of local and international printmakers working there. I have taken part in various artists’ residencies in the past ten years, and find the […]
As we both began to find a rhythm to the way of working together efficiently in Kala printmaking studio, prints began to emerge. Each of us seemed tentative initially, to make the first move. It was like we were creatively […]
