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Heading South….
It's that time of year again when we head South for a bit more sun..Next week we drive back to out Casa in Spain and I get work ready for the Frigiliana Art Walk. But before we go I want to reflect on this summer, it wasn't the summer we had planned but then that's...
Sketching and printing with a dear friend.
Having completed a three day workshop with Lewis Noble, VP and I decided we needed a refresher to establish what we have achieved and maybe more importantly to find our own ways of using his methods. Norwich is very unlike Derbyshire but we ventured off to along...
Sometimes the simplest solution arrives when you are not looking!
Occasionally a painting works quickly, mostly there is the play stage, the ugly stage, the awkward teenage stage and gradually the resolution to the finish line. Then there's the ones that argue continually, they change their minds about what they need and seem...
On painting.. scaling up
Add titleOn painting.. scaling up I would love to work much bigger, Anselm Kieffer size! At the moment my work ranges from a tiny 12cm square to 120cm square. Working large involves everything getting bigger...brushes, gestures, shapes etc. It's much harder...
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 20cm...
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 the wellspring of my...
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 brushes I went back to...
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 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...
Heading South….
It's that time of year again when we head South for a bit more sun..Next week we drive back to out Casa in Spain and I get work ready for the Frigiliana Art Walk. But before we go I want to reflect on this summer, it wasn't the summer we had planned but then that's...
Sketching and printing with a dear friend.
Having completed a three day workshop with Lewis Noble, VP and I decided we needed a refresher to establish what we have achieved and maybe more importantly to find our own ways of using his methods. Norwich is very unlike Derbyshire but we ventured off to along...
Sometimes the simplest solution arrives when you are not looking!
Occasionally a painting works quickly, mostly there is the play stage, the ugly stage, the awkward teenage stage and gradually the resolution to the finish line. Then there's the ones that argue continually, they change their minds about what they need and seem...
On painting.. scaling up
Add titleOn painting.. scaling up I would love to work much bigger, Anselm Kieffer size! At the moment my work ranges from a tiny 12cm square to 120cm square. Working large involves everything getting bigger...brushes, gestures, shapes etc. It's much harder...
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 20cm...
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 the wellspring of my...
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 brushes I went back to...
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 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...
Heading South….
It's that time of year again when we head South for a bit more sun..Next week we drive back to out Casa in Spain and I get work ready for the Frigiliana Art Walk. But before we go I want to reflect on this summer, it wasn't the summer we had planned but then that's...
Sketching and printing with a dear friend.
Having completed a three day workshop with Lewis Noble, VP and I decided we needed a refresher to establish what we have achieved and maybe more importantly to find our own ways of using his methods. Norwich is very unlike Derbyshire but we ventured off to along...
Sometimes the simplest solution arrives when you are not looking!
Occasionally a painting works quickly, mostly there is the play stage, the ugly stage, the awkward teenage stage and gradually the resolution to the finish line. Then there's the ones that argue continually, they change their minds about what they need and seem...
On painting.. scaling up
Add titleOn painting.. scaling up I would love to work much bigger, Anselm Kieffer size! At the moment my work ranges from a tiny 12cm square to 120cm square. Working large involves everything getting bigger...brushes, gestures, shapes etc. It's much harder...
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 20cm...
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 the wellspring of my...
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 brushes I went back to...
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 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...