I spent the next couple of days working on a larger scale – music plugged in (with no words) and wrote and wrote – I remembered doing this once before on a painting about my mum – after I had finished I collapsed in a heap. I experimented with charcoal, paint, smudging and overwriting to […]
Fold A1 into 8 with certain directives given – firstly writing free flow followed by doing the same but with drawing which I found much harder – felt quite self conscious to begin with but really enjoyed. We were then given time to create a book using a variety of techniques that we had used. […]
“It was to this pile she gave her attention. Methodically, expressionlessly, with neither anger nor joy, she took the objects there, one by one, and destroyed them. The letters and clothes, the stuffing from the dolls, the pin cushions and pictures, she burned in the fireplace, the clay and porcelain heads, the hands and arms […]
portfolio used for applying for Falmouth University Fine Art Degree
Hair is quite a daily thing for me – it gets everywhere – after the casting workshop I thought about creating a type of cats cradle installation – whereby I could either make or cast my own lower arms/hands that would be holding my hair – which over a period of time would grow and […]
I saw an exhibtion of Bourgeious’s work at the Tate this year and really loved these drawings and prints. In the last year I have become fascinated by the seaweed that gets washed up onto my local beaches and spend much time scouring for the deformed pieces that I salvage and bring home to draw. […]
first sketches from establishing myself within the studio – have increased the size of my drawings as trying to be braver and not work on such a small scale – little steps