I’ve been rather busy gardening and distracted by figuring out everything to do with painting outside in a way that looks decent and will last. Also still contracting for King’s College on their natural sciences degree course, ironic, me, a person who barely scraped their maths and sciences GCSE’s working with all these professors and […]
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Here’s my very abbreviated quick start pamphlet guide to art history for people who are too impatient to listen to audio tour guides. If you look up the top art movements ever the renaissance comes up as number one, and yes for technical reasons it was good but it lasted hundreds of years starting in
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Instead, they put me on the floor. Yup let’s be honest, you put your artwork into a show, and at the PV you walk round in anticipation looking for it hoping it won’t be either on the ceiling or on the floor. We all do it, if it’s comfortably within viewing range that doesn’t require
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So its that time of year again, what to submit to the summer exhibition at the Royal Academy? I haven’t decided, I have a short list of my own and they are generally peices ready to go that are easy to transport. I have a couple of wildcards, they’re all peices I love so it’s
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‘’All good artists make the world around us seem more complex, interesting and enigmatic that it usually appears.’’ Martin Gayford, A Bigger Message Conversations with David Hockney. I agree with the interesting and enigmatic part but not so much the complex. A lot of artists strive to make their subject less complex and therefore more
Crepuscular tidings. My birds are currently available at @artologie18 gallery in Cuckfield. Originals, prints, framed and unframed, coasters and cards. They have flow off to roost there for a while among the other lovely things, paintings and seasonal gifts. Artologie is a bit different, the artwork is actually stuff I like, impressionist and figurative work, every piece
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There’s no one around, or is there? a suggestion of some people but you only see their shadows. Look carefully and there’s 2 people in the restaurant enjoying a quiet space on this Brighton morning. This was my piece for the summer exhibition this year at the RA. It was the product of a particularly
Edward Hopper painted Nighthawks (originally titled Night Hawks) in 1942. Hopper posed as the two suited men and his wife Josephine posed for the woman. Look at enough Hoppers you’ll notice the women all look familiar; they are all Josephine. Part of the enduring interest in Nighthawks has been the hunt for the diner that
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The first time I called myself an artist in response to someone asking what I did was 2 years ago and it felt really weird and a massive risk. It was a really nice day and I was digging out invasive species of giant ragwort along Shoreham beach with a group that manages the beach
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Yes, here it is, the thing I was putting off for years because of analysis paralysis and a general fear and loathing of new technology. My old site ceasing to exist several years ago, unnoticed while I toiled down endless digital salt mines doing things like a ‘proper’ job and all that while continuing to
