Tag Archives: kunst

Just Watching And Scribbling.

I’ve got a few days off work and I did something I used to do a lot before Covid lockdowns, about once a week I’d go to a cafe for a cuppa and have a scribble as well. Cafes are good places for sketching as people are often absorbed in conversation or thought, so it’sContinue reading “Just Watching And Scribbling.”

Sketchbook Archives: 24

Looking back to my blog posts in March 2013, I was drawing a lot of heads in my sketchbooks. It’s good practice to sketch quickly at random, it really trains you to identify the necessary details and get them down.

#StandingStoneSunday – Y Garreg Coch

Here’s my mixed media work featuring Y Garreg Coch (the Red Stone), a Neolithic monument in Carmarthenshire. Throughout 2016 I did a large series of drawings of standing stones, en plein air as we artists call it. I was accompanied by archaeologist Dewi Bowen who was researching his new book on Neolithic / Bronze AgeContinue reading “#StandingStoneSunday – Y Garreg Coch”

Sketchbook Archives: 23

Here’s a selection of people sketches from my sketchbooks in February 2013. That was 7 years before Covid lockdowns when I used to be out and about scribbling so much. I sort of got out of the habit after lockdown, but also there seem to be far fewer people just hanging out in the cityContinue reading “Sketchbook Archives: 23”

#HomeKeyToHome : Going Large 5

I worked with a group of adult students to produce a range of gel-plate prints, exploring colour and texture with leaves and grasses, recycled materials like bubblewrap, and carved wooden blocks. Then we ripped them up into tiny pieces and used them to construct 4 collages on A3 sized paper. These collages were heading forContinue reading “#HomeKeyToHome : Going Large 5”

#HomeKeyToHome : Going Large 4

Here’s another giant blow up of a small collage made from tiny fragments of gel-plate prints. It’s part of an exhibition for The Senedd, the Welsh Government building in Cardiff. The exhibition is called “Home, The Key To Hope” and it’s centred around artwork and writing by people who have recently experienced homelessness. I tookContinue reading “#HomeKeyToHome : Going Large 4”

#HomeKeyToHome : Going Large 3

Over the past few months I’ve been working with a group of adult students to develop an exhibition for The Senedd, the Welsh Government building in Cardiff. I took the lead on creating a giant display of collages that are exhibited on 4 enormous panels, about 4 metres high. Each of these panels was originallyContinue reading “#HomeKeyToHome : Going Large 3”

#HomeKeyToHome : Going Large 2

This is a tiny part of a giant collage currently on display at The Senedd in Cardiff (until February 13th 2025). The individual pieces are greatly enlarged fragments that are in reality about the size of a finger nail. They started out as gel-plate prints that were ripped up and restructured into collages on A3Continue reading “#HomeKeyToHome : Going Large 2”

#HomeKeyToHome : Going Large 1.

I’m an educator as well as an artist and I work a couple of days a week for a national homelessness charity as an arts tutor. Over the past few months I’ve been working with a group of other staff and our members (service users) to develop an exhibition for The Senedd, the Welsh GovernmentContinue reading “#HomeKeyToHome : Going Large 1.”

Sketchbook Archives: 22

Here are a couple of rare landscapes from way back in 2012. I hardly ever portray landscape, I don’t feel much of a connection to be honest, these were done quickly with watercolours during a late summer walk at Mewslade on the Gower Peninsula and I had fun with the shapes and colours, rather thanContinue reading “Sketchbook Archives: 22”