MINERSIMPRINT – Exhibition opening 20 April 2024
Exhibition Opening
Testing The Progress…
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.
One Day I Did Some Abstract Expressionism….
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 Should Do More …..
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.
It’s #Caturday Saturday …..
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!
Getting Messy …..
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.
It’s Not #Caturday … But …
Here’s Bill aka William ChatNoir, shoved through an Adobe Photoshop filter (Dry Brush). As you do ….
Covid Queueing.
I was flicking through some sketchbooks and saw scribbles done during the daily Covid19 walks that Husb and I did back in 2020. Honestly, we haven’t been as fit since. The little café had opened in Cwmdonkin Park (loved by Dylan Thomas) and people were queueing masked and two metres apart in the sunshine to get some ice-cream. They were pleasant, polite, orderly queues.
This Seagull Got Stuffed.
Now, a lot of people in Swansea, and other places too, don’t like seagulls. I don’t particularly care for them myself to be honest, except when they zoom down and pinch someone’s burger in the street …. or poop on Husb’s head, which has happened many times 😀
But I like drawing them. This is one from Swansea Museum‘s taxidermy collection, that’s why it held the pose so well. This is a screen print and I’m playing around with vegetable netting to add to the background. It’s a comment on the natural world being polluted by our rubbish.
#Caturday Saturday
It’s #Caturday Saturday on social media and here’s one from the archives. Sparta Puss when she was younger and slimmer, but no less lazy.
