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  • Video-cover

    Who Are You? A Retrospective

    13 June 2023

    In this video, which was filmed and edited by Miheer Shetty, I talk about my retrospective show.

  • small sketches #1

    Mini sketches inspired by spring in the city

    31 May 2021

    Annotation and thoughts on the small sketches. I have enjoyed this experimentation with smaller canvas’s, reducing the size has been helpful in the regard of the process.

  • 1024-Colours-by-Gerhard-Richter

    Artist Research on colour

    26 May 2021

    1024 colours (1973) is one of Richter’s well-known colour chart paintings, which he began producing in the late 1960s. They were inspired by the commercial colour charts found in hardware stores.

  • Colours in spring #1

    Colours in spring

    26 May 2021

    The poet Gerard Manley Hopkins begins his poem, by giving a simple judgement about spring, there is nothing more beautiful.

  • Larger paintings process and evaluation

    26 May 2021

    I bought this canvas from a charity shop I find this a convenient way to paint on a larger scale . I also like to use recycled materials in my practice.

  • Landscape near Martigues by Maurice de Vlaminck

    Why painting is like cooking

    26 May 2021

    “Good painting is like good cooking; it can be tasted, but not explained.” Maurice de Vlaminck.

  • fence panels sketch

    Experiments on looser paint mark making sketches

    18 May 2021

    Exploring and experimenting with colour as it is an important part of my painting practice. To explore mark-making, composition, space, and light within my process of painting.

  • The She-Wolf

    Artist research

    17 May 2021

    Art can carry a message and provoke thoughts and feelings; this is what Abstract Expressionism, in my opinion, is about.

  • This oil on canvas was a direct response to the photograph below.

    Primary sketches

    17 May 2021

    This oil on canvas was a direct response to the photograph below. I liked the blue of the sky and how the yellow Forsythia was lit by the street light .

  • Indigo Heather 4 by Liz Ackerley

    Secondary research

    17 May 2021

    I have been watching a lot of YouTube videos on the painting process. I have been inspired by the artist Liz Ackerley and her artistic process.

  • Primary-research-2-FI

    Primary research

    17 May 2021

    I have started my primary research by taking photographs of my daily journeys. Focusing mainly on what I see and what catches my attention.

  • Statues of miners depicting the county’s mining history

    Proposal for Specialist Studio practice

    17 May 2021

    Nature in the urban landscape is my starting point and initial line of enquiry.

  • Nails

    Further thoughts on evaluation of outcome

    2 February 2021

    Through out this project I have tried to focus on developing my own style in painting. I think painting for me is instinctive process, I enjoy the physicality of applying the paint.

  • Boris Johnson to give Covid briefing amid lockdown exit plan demands

    Project Evaluation

    25 January 2021

    Reflecting on nearly a year of living in a Pandemic situation all our lives have been seriously upended.

  • Kidnapped

    Photoshop images

    22 January 2021

    Thankfully , the new images are a lot better quality and they sit better in the gallery space.

  • Woman walking near blank white wall mockup in modern gallery

    Heading towards my final outcome

    22 January 2021

    In choosing which painting I will use for my final outcome I need to consider how it will be viewed.

  • The Stonemason’s Yard

    Project development in Painting

    11 January 2021

    The current restrictions have allowed me to indulge a reading habit, I reread “Kidnapped” by Robert Lewis Stevenson.

  • Acrylic paint print

    Project development

    7 January 2021

    I decided to set up a print area in my studio space to develop my lino print series further.

  • Spanner in the Workz:

    Contextual research on the artist Lee Lozano

    5 January 2021

    Lee Lozano, an eccentric artist who pursued Conceptual Art and painting in the 1960’s and then left the New York art world for self-imposed exile that included an embargo on contact with other women.

  • Other-signifiers-of-fear-FI

    Other signifiers of fear

    4 January 2021

    My starting point was to look at other signifiers of fear such as knifes , guns and tools.

  • Looking at Fear #1

    Looking at Fear and related colours

    4 January 2021

    My starting point with sketching was from the photographs I took of a spider as Tom suggested that I look at motifs and imagery, I started with insects which we fear such as spiders, moths, mosquitos.

  • Imbedding fear threw the media, collage

    Primary contextual research for sketch book

    29 December 2020

    Fear is a natural, powerful, and primitive human emotion. It involves a universal biochemical response as well as a high individual emotional response.

  • Duel with Cudgels

    Contextual artists research

    27 December 2020

    After two life-threatening illnesses, Goya was likely to have been concerned with his own mortality and was increasingly embittered by the civil strife occurring in Spain.

  • Primary-research-FI

    Primary research

    27 December 2020

    This is a photograph which I took at Yorkshire Sculpture Park in my first year of art college.

  • Specialist studio practice

    14 December 2020

    Proposal for Specialist Studio practice

  • Double espresso and Macaroons

    Final Major Project Evaluation

    8 June 2020

    In the Final Major Project (FMP) I wanted to explore still life painting as a creative practice in order to look at symbolism and the wider meanings if object forms.

  • Double espresso and Macaroons

    Final Outcome

    4 June 2020

    The three images I have submitted as my final outcome.

  • Attaching-the-frame-to-the-paintings-to-photograph-FI

    Attaching the frame to the paintings to photograph

    4 June 2020

    My original idea was to use one painting as the final outcome so I had only made one frame.

  • The finished frame

    The finished frame

    21 May 2020

    I used casting resin and an old paint brush to “glaze” the plastic on to the frame.

  • Working dark to light

    Still life paintings

    21 May 2020

    I took Toms advice to paint more and used it as an opportunity to really focus on light and shade and the effects of shadow within my paintings.

  • The frame measured to fit on top of the canvas

    Heading to a conclusion with the frame

    18 May 2020

    The frames development seems to be coming together quite well.

  • Object Meret Oppenheim

    Composition ideas

    18 May 2020

    It has been really difficult to make a decision on what to put in my Still-life painting as I really wanted to give it implied meaning rather than a collection of objects.

  • mixture with a stick blender

    Canvas and Frame

    11 May 2020

    I have decided to make the canvas from recycled materials as I do not have a large canvas at home and I like using recycled materials.

  • Still life With Nuts, Candy, and Flowers by Clara Peeters

    Reflection on my research and the direction of my FMP

    11 May 2020

    Still life painting has the ability through symbolism and the viewers interpretation to give a narrative of thoughts and ideas.

  • red, purple, black and silver acrylic paint

    Paint Pours

    7 April 2020

    I think if I move the idea of still life drawings into a painting I will have to use the colours which I have enough of .

  • Pandora

    Pandora

    2 April 2020

    Hurwit (1995) says that the myth explains why humans must work to survive, that Pandora represents the beautiful figure of dread, something for which men can find no device or remedy.

  • Madonna Santa Maria del Carmine

    Religious artworks

    1 April 2020

    The historical loss of the female narrative and a lament to the barriers that grew from religious interpretation , a double edged sword for the female.

  • Eve from an illuminated manuscript

    01.04.2020

    1 April 2020

    Looking at online images of Adam and Eve and how they are depicted in a historical and contemporary context.

  • queen 1979 Audrey flack

    Still life composition research

    1 April 2020

    Looking at the work of Audrey Flack for composition ideas as her still life painting have a number of interesting messages and symbols to decode within them.

  • Still life object experiments #1

    Still life object experiments

    31 March 2020

    Charcoal, coloured pastels on a newspaper.

  • Still Life With Pineapple Ice Bucket

    Still life experiment in colour

    25 March 2020

    Moving into colour and still life , colours in religious paintings were a important element in implying meanings .

  • mind map #1

    Mind Map

    25 March 2020

  • FMP #1

    Final Major Project

    24 March 2020

    I have started my FMP looking at historical female figures in a religious context.

  • sunset

    The Journey Begins

    23 March 2020

    Thanks for joining me!