I was strolling along Princess Way in Swansea last evening and saw this gorgeous reflection of Saint Mary’s Church and some trees in the glass frontage of a building. I took a photo and today I uploaded it into Adobe Photoshop, cropped it and shoved it into a “Cutout” filter. I like it, it has the feel of a screenprint about it.
Yeah. Okay. It’s YOUR bed. Anything for an easy life. What do I know? I’m just a trained monkey!
In case you’re interested, the wallpaper is Laura Ashley and the blanket by Melin Tregwynt. And I got them both in a sale …. which makes me happy 😀 And the cat is Sparta Puss.
This screenprint I did inspired by the Miners Wives in the Miners Strike of 1984-1985 has been accepted into the Miners Imprint exhibition at Taliesin Arts Centre, beginning tomorrow (April 20th) from 13.00 – 15.00.
The work was commissioned by Swansea University to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the creation of the Miner’s Library and 21 artworks were chosen for this exhibition – you can see them here, some are for sale. It’s such a privilege to have my work included in this.
When I’m carving a lino block I like to check on it’s progress regularly. I do this by taking a rubbing with a piece of white paper and a block of graphite. Still a lot of cutting to do on this one though.
It was twelve years ago, in a Moment of Madness. I worked in oil bars onto a huge piece of cardboard stapled to the wall of my studio. I don’t know why I came over all Abstract Expressionist and I haven’t done it since. I didn’t really know where to go with it so it eventually ended up as mulch on my allotment.
I was rummaging through my archive files and spotted this portrait of fellow artist Patti McKenna that I did back in 2014 for an exhibition in Fringe Arts Bath. I’ve never really thought of myself as much of a painter, or portraitist, but looking back at this after 10 years, I really like it and think that maybe I should do some more.
Here’s a sketch of Sparta Puss I did during the first lockdown in 2020. She got used to me being around all the time and was a bit miffed when I went back to work. Yes, she IS that chubby!
I did some teaching at GS Artists in Swansea today, as part of the 9-to-90 Creative Community programme, looking at charcoal and landscape. I used images by three different landscape artists, in black and white, Glenys Cour, David Hockney and Kyffin Williams, to examine the difference in styles. I did this demonstration drawing inspired by the Glenys Cour image, using different types of charcoal and techniques to get texture and intensity.
Here’s Bill aka William ChatNoir, shoved through an Adobe Photoshop filter (Dry Brush). As you do ….
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