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Painting Process: Red underpainting

I picked this red underpainting to add around the blue mesh in the middle. It feels positive to get rid of the white background and fill the canvas! I have been thinking a bit about the boundary between the ‘heavenly’ or the ‘otherworldly’ and the touchable, earth we spend our lives on. This was inspired…… Continue reading Painting Process: Red underpainting

Painting a structure for the sky: Process

From this wire sculpture To these plein air sketches of the sky – the composition idea To picking a canvas size and shape. To this digital sketch Through doing the sketch I figured out what distance the concentric circles need to be from each other, as they expand outwards, to create the illusion of looking…… Continue reading Painting a structure for the sky: Process

Locked + Loaded Virtual Exhibition

Honoured to be a part of DegreeArt’s virtual exhibition ‘Locked + Loaded’ which launched last night. It was a wonderful experience to ‘meet’ the other artists on a zoom opening event, and get to know the DegreeArt team more. There have been many silver linings amongst the unexpected new challenges faced in 2020. Our first…… Continue reading Locked + Loaded Virtual Exhibition

Glazing Painting Continued

I am working on a painting that I started a few weeks before the first lockdown began in March. I was so excited about the prospect of this new mode of painting back then, and couldn’t wait to experiment with this canvas. It’s now nearly eight months later and I’m no longer excited about the…… Continue reading Glazing Painting Continued

Meet the Artist Degree Art Interview

Degree art has released a short get to know the artist interview, asking me a range of questions, about my art inspiration, about me, my university degree, and my hopes for the future. https://videopress.com/v/ttn8wWmZ?autoPlay=true&controls=false&loop=true&preloadContent=metadata the interview

Bringing the dome shape to life

Trying to capture the sensation of looking at this view of the sky in person, which I now can only remember, and attempt to re-experience in my memory. The canvas or paper will never be big enough to contain such a vast view. So I use sculptural drawing methods to create the (illusion of) the…… Continue reading Bringing the dome shape to life

Artist: Albert Irvin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7F4l1A_AsAw&feature=emb_title I hadn’t heard of Albert Irvin before, and I don’t know why! His work has a crushing immediacy to them, the marks he makes have real weight to them, which I want to look at and read about. In this Tate video, he says that abstract painting has an ‘immediacy’ and direct-ness to it.…… Continue reading Artist: Albert Irvin

The Tree Charter

https://treecharter.uk/get-involved.html A great resource for learning about the history of woodlands in Britain, and what can be done today to sustain natural woodlands.

Excerpts from Ben Streets Essay ‘Making Room’

Passages from the Freelands Painting Prize Catalogue 2020. I now know there are things to be learnt from reading what someone has written about your own artwork – especially if that person is a very eloquent writer! If you want to pick up a copy of the catalogue all the details are here. any address…… Continue reading Excerpts from Ben Streets Essay ‘Making Room’

Freelands Painting Prize Opening

Last week was the opening of the Freelands Painting Prize 2020. There was a COVID friendly online opening event, and then the physical show opened the day after. It was a wonderful experience to take part in such a show, there were interesting conversations had at the zoom opening event which I wish I could…… Continue reading Freelands Painting Prize Opening