Here’s the second piece I made on my training course with the most excellent glass artist Lisa Burkl the other day. Step 1: Paint a design onto the outside of a clean glass bowl with acrylic pens and paints. Leave it to dry. Step 2: Cover the painted area thinly with glue (it’s a specialContinue reading “Gilding Again.”
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Work In Progress: Miner’s Wives 2.
Here’s a second version of a screen print transparency I’m making about the glorious South Wales Miner’s Wives from the 1984-1985 strike. It’s based on some pen and ink sketches from contemporary press photos and I’m trying out different materials to redraw the image onto Mark Resist film. This is drawn with Lihtographic Tusche and an Isabey squirrelContinue reading “Work In Progress: Miner’s Wives 2.”
Grym : Power.
The rough hewn cut-marks gouged into the lino form cloisons that enclose shiny jewels of metallic watercolours. The block is printed in the deepest black oil-based ink onto a Japanese HoSho paper and when dry, watercolour paints are applied with the finest Isabey squirrel brushes. I’ve been working on a collaborative project with the multi-disciplinaryContinue reading “Grym : Power.”
Faking It (Again)
A few weeks into the first Covid19 Lockdown in the Spring of 2020, the artist Ed Sumner started the “Cheese and Wine Painting Club” every Friday afternoon on Facebook Live. It was open to anyone, from anywhere, all ages, free for those who couldn’t afford to make a donation, and over the long months ofContinue reading “Faking It (Again)”
Metallic Bits …
I’ve been working on a typographic linocut recently, a collaboration with the awesome Welsh rapper and multi-disciplinary artist Rufus Mufasa and nine other women artists in Wales . She’s about to release her new bilingual album Tri(ger) Warning(s), which has been steered by a number of key Welsh language words. Each artist has chosen oneContinue reading “Metallic Bits …”
Brand New …..
…PAINTS!!!!!! I love unwrapping things! I bought these months ago but decided not to open them until I needed to ….. and that was today. Look at the lovely packaging/ I’m going to tease you and not let you see these luscious little beauties in all their glory until tomorrow. Mwahahahahaha 😀 😀 😀
A Strange Thing Happened: The Covid Archives 1.
It’s nearly 4 years since the UK Covid19 Lockdown started. We didn’t know then that it would go on for nearly 2 years. A strange thing happened to me – I started to paint. I hadn’t done any painting since my early days at Swansea Art College back in the 1970s, but something about theContinue reading “A Strange Thing Happened: The Covid Archives 1.”
#NoExcuse – Ana Mendieta.
dinahvagina is a multi media artist living and working in Wales. Her work in this new #NoExcuse exhibition is about the horrifying death of Cuban American artist Ana Mendieta. She was pushed from / fell from/ jumped from the 34th floor of her apartment block. Her husband was charged with her murder but was eventuallyContinue reading “#NoExcuse – Ana Mendieta.”
#NOEXCUSE: NOT JUST AN EXHIBITION
A group show and beyond by Welsh artists dinahvagina, Rosie Scribblah, and the RAD Collective. November 25th 2023 to February 2nd 2024 Wednesdays to Sundays, noon til late Cinema & Co.ffee, 17 Castle Street, Swansea SA1 1JF, 07305 908260 #NOEXCUSE is a creative response to the topic of misogyny and the United Nations campaign againstContinue reading “#NOEXCUSE: NOT JUST AN EXHIBITION”
Celebrity Portrait In 2 Hours.
I taught an adult education class this afternoon with the 9-to-90 Creative Community at the excellent GS Artists on Swansea’s High Street. The theme was to paint a portrait of the Divine Diva, Dame Shirley Bassey. In TWO hours! A bit challenging 😀 But we did it. The results will be in the venue’s nextContinue reading “Celebrity Portrait In 2 Hours.”
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