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Jan 26
1 min

The Dilema of Daily Painting

As third lockdown began I have already started the year by beginning a new daily painting project. getting out every day and connecting w...

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Pandemic Exhibition: The Burton Gallery, Bideford

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Jul 15, 2020
2 min

Pandemic Exhibition: The Burton Gallery, Bideford

This exhibition is startling. Using a grain of rice to represent one person the artists have assembled a challenging and provocative numb...

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Jul 15, 2020
1 min

Considering colour

If I think of the work that I do and the work of others that admire, it is often about colour. Whilst doing the final work for the MA col...

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Jul 6, 2020
1 min

Bringing all my work together

The thing I most wanted to achieve over the last three years was finding my consistent style, ensuring my work looked like one person did...

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May 6, 2020
2 min

The concept of the bricolage

I have been looking at different genres of writing and at authors who have used a more contemporary style of writing both about both moth...

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May 4, 2020
1 min

Final taught day of the MA

Yesterday the MA taught program came to an end. I had worked out I could sit in my garden to zoom. The day was idilic. it was wonderful t...

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Drawing from the models without visits to the studio

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Apr 30, 2020
1 min

Drawing from the models without visits to the studio

Today I have been contacting the pregnant models that have been to the studio and two who were due to come together; cousins both pregnan...

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Apr 27, 2020
2 min

Tutorial with Mark

It was good to get feedback on the essay today and begin to feel like it is getting somewhere. I have the bonus of an essay that is formi...

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Apr 23, 2020
2 min

impromptu Critique

As there was suddenly a space needing to be filled for a critique I felt it would be helpful to get some feed back on the drawings I have...

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