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Monthly Archives: May 2015
The making of Sequel II.
This piece was inspired by a work called Sequel 1967-8, made in latex by Eva Hesse. I saw the work when I was reading about Hesse and the image caught my eye as I had just managed to successfully make … Continue reading
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Tagged charcoal, drawing, marks, materials, paper, photography, video, Willow
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Planning towards a series of works.
In thinking about how to take my work forward in line with thinking about the idea of ‘absence’ I was sat looking at a previous work that I had done, and actually feeling quite despondent. Its like my journey through … Continue reading
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Tagged charcoal, collage, materials, mixed media, painting, photoshop, Willow
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Reflections on reflections on reflections.
Continuing to think about my work and re-writing my artist statement there are many things going around in my mind. So in some respects I want to unload them here. I have gone backwards and forwards through my log, re-reading … Continue reading
It started with a comment from a friend……
The comment I refer to was – ‘I’ve had a willow tree come down in one of my fields, do you want any?’ Well I had to at least take a look. I brought home a branch covered in catkins … Continue reading
Growing tubes 2.
Following on from Growing tubes when all my specimens had sprouted, I wondered if they would make it through the winter. They are kind of looking a bit grotty, but now all 8 have sprouted- I’m staggered. An accumulation of … Continue reading
More experimenting with printing from acetate.
Following on from earlier interesting results from my experiments with printing from acetate, I decided to try out using the photographs of my group of 8 willow sculptures. I quite like the effects achieved through the layering of the acetate, … Continue reading
Charcoal dust drawing- Void.
This is one of a number of drawings like this I have made now. I have documented on video to try and illustrate the process of the making. As I was thinking about this in relation to ‘absence’, my mind … Continue reading
