Working away at Galerie Simpson on my short residency. One of my ‘ideas’ drawings and my work station. There’s more of my art to be seen in my online Gallery in Artfinder, please click on the image below to take a look. Thank you.
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What Am I Up To? [3]
Working on something new in a short residency at the fab Galerie Simpson. Out of my comfort zone, working out the logistics of constructing prints and drawings in three dimensions. Ooooff. I’m a very 2D person! I’m also continuing my “en plein air” journey of discovery with prehistorian Dewi Bowen and filmmaker Melvyn Williams as we travelContinue reading “What Am I Up To? [3]”
What Am I Up To Now? [2]
I’m doing a short residency at the lovely Galerie Simpson on Swansea’s High Street and I’m working on something very new and out of my comfort zone…… I’ve been incorporating text into my work on and off for some years – I’m experimenting with some new pens, Uni Pen Fine Line. Looking good. I needContinue reading “What Am I Up To Now? [2]”
And Yet Another Beautiful Boomer
And it’s getting difficult to find titles for my Baby Boomer blogs now that I’ve reached number 83 – I think I’ve done every permutation on Baby Boomer that there is! I’m so loving doing these sketches and having conversations with my sitters, discourses that will eventually feed into the final work, which I hopeContinue reading “And Yet Another Beautiful Boomer”
Another Beautiful Boomer
As I scrutinise the faces of my sitters, all Baby Boomers, all born between 1946 and 1964, it’s obvious that beauty shines through from within, it’s not something that sits on the surface of the skin. It’s a shame that cosmetic surgery is so popular because it’s the life that is lived and reflected uponContinue reading “Another Beautiful Boomer”
Beautiful Boomer
I’ve been working at the lovely Galerie Simpson on Swansea’s High Street today, drawing more Baby Boomers. I’ve now drawn over 80 and I’m enjoying the sketching and conversations. Now that I’m on the home run, I realise how much I’m going to miss these when I reach number hundred. Here’s another beautiful Boomer. There’sContinue reading “Beautiful Boomer”
Creative Learning
I had a great day, working with a group of fellow artists to deliver demonstrations to primary school teachers in a lovely school on the Gower Peninsula. I showed a selection of printmaking techniques suitable for younger children including two kinds of monotype – direct line and reductive, blind embossing and colour printing with collagraphContinue reading “Creative Learning”
Reconnecting
Baby Boomer number 80 from the one hundred I plan to draw by the end of this year! I’m getting excited at the prospect of finishing the sketches and planning what to do with them, how to develop the next stage. It’s been wonderful talking as well as drawing. I’m reconnecting with many people fromContinue reading “Reconnecting”
Profiled
This is the 79th sitter out of my target of drawing 100 Baby Boomers before the end of the year and only the third to be drawn in profile. I really like doing this because we rarely look closely at people in profile during our everyday contacts. I’m also continuing my “en plein air”Continue reading “Profiled”
Ripped Abstraction
Another drawing en plein air from the summit of one of the ruined cairns of Carmel. It was precarious climbing to the top, the stones are uneven, unbalanced and wobbly and I tottered with my drawing materials in a high wind. We start off at the bottom of a hill in fine sunshine but theContinue reading “Ripped Abstraction”
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