Moving back into painting

I mentioned that I wanted to go back to painting but with the aim of maintaining the energy of the marks I’ve made with the brushes and prints. I also want to continue to explore the concept of places and journey. I started off reworking a couple of small panels...

On creating

My artistic practice for the past four decades has followed a contimuum. Guided by the sense of a need for ‘home’ but with an inability to settle imbues my work with energy. Over the years I’ve come to regard my restlessness as a blessing, it’s...

El libro de La Herradura

After experimenting with a range of formats and ideas I decided to make a book. I’ve always been interested in books as art and was keen to ‘frame’ my fractures within the format of a book, a journey through.  Printing plates made using handmade...

Context. The brush…

I was reaserching artists brushes when I came across teh work of Lorna Crane. She is an Autralian artist whe creates brushes from the things she finds whilst walking. When used the brushes create a range of marks, depending on the materials she has used. I am...

encasing in encaustic.

Although Caroline had said we just need to make a final outcome, I felt the need to pull the project together both as a reflective, evaluative process, and as a cumulative one. Although I am aware I am in an endless journey I dont like unfinished business.  Looking...

Focus on..form, fragment, frame

After a very useful meeting with Susan it’s clear that I am coming to the culmination of this project. My default panic button is saying “do more, do more!” THAT is my comfort zone, work is my escape, my identity, my existence, if I’m making I...