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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 must be doing something...
Capturing those marks…process
Whilst I await any feedback on my Pecha Kucha and before I start the next project I wanted to spend some time in the studio exploring a couple of techniques thatI hope will enable me to create printing plates that would express the looseness of the inky drawings I...
Ruta de Arte Frigiliana
It was great to be asked to take part in the second Ruta de Arte in Frigiliana, organised by the amazing artist Maribel Martin and her husband artist and musician Brendon Taylor. I had no way of checking out the venue I was allocated before hand so was delighted when...
Success tastes sweet!
Just taken down my work at Norwich Print Fair. It's been quite a busy two weeks. This was my tenth year and after a couple of year lack lustre responses from visitors this year has been explosive! I sold 14 of my new monoprints ranging in size from 12c m up to 60cm....
Finally feel its coming together!
Whilst I always put a positive spin on making art anyone who does it will know it's mostly an uphill climb. You spend days or weeks pushing paint around, scraping it off, rebuilding until it begins to show signs of life...and then invariably you kill it off just after...
New Explorations from Brisons Veor
As a result of my week on Cornwall I have arrived back in Norwich with piles of collaged sketches, photographs, filled sketchbooks, monoprints and of course, ideas. I was particularly drawn to the geology of the area the origins of the industry. My studies of the...
Brisons Veor Residency
Back in UK and off to Cornwall for a week long residency at Cape Cornwall. I took more kit than anyone would need but set myself FOUR challenges 1. To not make final outcomes 2. To play as much as possible with Mark-making 3. To leave the audience at the door 4. To...
Leaving Spain for the summer
After the busy time at the Art Walk in Competa and family visiting I just had time to start some large paintings that I will finish on my return in September, and to finish a large one to take to Galeria de Bellas Artes Competa. I made two panels to bolt together as...
Easter in Andalucia
Luckily it rained most of March so I managed to get a lot of work done for the Art Walk in Competa. I decided to make lots a new things...some smaller circles and experiment further with encaustic. I took the large painting from Motril and sold it on the first...
Encaustic journey in January
I went on a two day encaustic workshop in Brighton. Lovely media...layers, colours, embedding what's not to like! Unfortunately the tutor used a mix with paraffin wax which I've since found out creates lots of smoke..and we made work on non-absorbent surfaces..so may...
Exhibiting in La Azucarera
I met Emma Plunket at Easter 2017 when I took part in the Cómpeta Art Walk. She contacted me during the Summer to say she was inviting artists to take part in an exhibition and would I be interested? Little did I know how amazing the venue she found would be....the...