Category: Third Year

I am thinking of this painting as one that has many final states – captured in photographs and then reworked to keep exploring. Although the physical painting is only one final image, the other states will be recorded here in photographs. This is a really FREE way of painting. I far less worried about spoiling…… Continue reading Painting this new (and existentialist) idea continued

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2019/nov/27/the-art-of-looking-catherine-mccormack-ceilings?utm_term=RWRpdG9yaWFsX0FydFdlZWtseS0xOTExMjk%3D&utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=ArtWeekly&CMP=artweekly_email I saw this article on The Guardian Art weekly email and immediately knew I needed to read the book! I now have the physical book. Here are my notes from it: THIS BOOK IS AMAZING As humans we are hierarchical and believe that the higher up something is, the greater its importance, and we…… Continue reading Book: The Art of Looking Up

The book Godfrey, M., Serota, Nicholas & Tate Modern, 2011. Gerhard Richter : panorama, London: Tate Publishing. Pictures by Gerhard Richter are neither documentation nor fiction. Nevertheless, they depict human life Godfrey, M., Serota, Nicholas & Tate Modern, 2011. Gerhard Richter : panorama, London: Tate Publishing, P.6. It’s interesting that when you put a cluster…… Continue reading Artist: Gerhard Richter

I realise that I have been hanging my paintings a little too low in the past. Since the work is about height and scale they need to be hung so that the viewer needs to look up at them slightly, to enforce the sense of height and scale and the experience of looking up. This…… Continue reading Hanging paintings for assessment

I was reading the book ‘The Art of Looking Up’ (blog post on it to follow) and it really makes me want to paint. Mid reading it I got some oil proof paper, stapled it to the walls and got out my oil paint! I am going off the monochrome work I have done thinking…… Continue reading Painting this new (and existential) idea

I made two maquettes last week, but I still haven’t written them up here. This process was very material heavy and I didn’t feel inclined to write anything about them here until now. I think I was still processing what I had made! The reason I wanted to make a maquette was to understand my…… Continue reading Making sculpture maquettes – adding a paper model to the existing sculpture

I decided not to rework this canvas en plein air before adding the white structure lines. I thought that I would add the lines, and if the canvas still needed reworking I could do this after the structure in is, which is something I’ve never done before, but which could be interesting. I decided on…… Continue reading New Finished Painting

Kasia thinks these two drawings have the strongest composition. They fill the canvas in a way that feels right, whilst other compositions feel disjointed and the mass of black is a square shape in the painting with no flow to the rest of the painting. I’m surprised she picked these two tests above others. The…… Continue reading Talking about these sketches

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2019/nov/25/anselm-kiefer-when-i-make-a-truly-great-painting-then-i-feel-real I read this article, and it’s interesting to hear of a painting who is inspired by such scientific topics. It’s amazing that work so seemingly unordered, messy, crazy, intense, can be inspired by such clean, definitive theories. “These advanced mathematicians are attempting to find a theory of everything,” he says, when we sit down…… Continue reading Anselm Kiefer Article

Is the perception of time generational? I.e. our culture is getting faster so is time speeding up? And do older generations have a slower perception of time than younger generations? Lancaster City centre is no longer the place for shopping. Then what do people go into town for? For entertainment, for meeting up with people,…… Continue reading Notes from ‘6th Annual General Meeting’ More Music networking evening on 27.11.19