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In May, I was fortunate to have a week’s holiday in the Algarve, Portugal: For this month, I am planning to start a new embroidery, another large red thread based on an ink drawing I made in February:...
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Found
I went to visit one of my favourite museums to see the exhibition Found, curated by Cornelia Parker at the Foundling Museum. Rachel Whiteread – Bronze shoe heel and instep The exhibition involves...
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I have started a new embroidery, it is big and a bit daunting but I am looking forward to the challenge. Once I have stitched all the lines, I will start to fill the spaces with satin stitch I have...
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New Embroideries, watercolours and drawings
It was a great evening at the Towner Art Gallery Private View in Eastbourne, I felt very pleased to be part of the East Sussex Open Exhibition and thought the show looked pretty good. I am gradually...
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Watercolours from Turkey
I have been in Turkey for almost 4 weeks now. I have made a lot of drawings and some watercolours but had difficulty in getting good quality reproductions of them. I seem unable to capture them...
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Sketchbook drawings from Turkey
I didn’t produce as many watercolours as I had intended during my trip to Turkey this year: I found myself more engaged with my sketchbook: I like the pebbles here, they often have a white line...
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New drawings and embroideries
I am now one month into my MA and I am making lots of new work which is quite different to what I do at Draw. I have to present this new work to my fellow students and tutors in the form of a show...
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Works in Progress
There is just over a week until the end of term and on December 13th, I must present some work to my fellow students and tutors. I began this new work by making rust prints from found abandoned objects...
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New Work in Progress
I have, for some time, been concerned about the environmental impact of the textile industry and also the welfare of garment workers in many countries that we know to have terrible working conditions...
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Drawings and MA Research
I have created a website for one of my Research Journals for my MA. There is quite a bit of content in it and I intend to add to it as I go along. I’ve included a link to a short video Dress For Our...
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#whomademyclothes
The patchwork blanket is now complete, with 1,138 labels sewn on to represent the number of people who died in the Rana Plaza complex, Bangladesh in April 2013. The title of the piece #whomademyclothes...
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Approaches to Drawing
I have started to teach a new 10 week course on drawing at the Camden Arts Centre. The course is titled ‘Approaches to drawing’ incorporating a wide variety of media and subjects. I have put a lot of...
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Latest drawings and new working processes
I have now completed the first year of my MA, I felt a bit swamped by the amount of written work I had to do and I was rusty. Time spent drawing was a welcome relief: I also managed to find a bit of...
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Life Drawing in abstraction
I attended a life class on Sunday that encouraged everyone to embrace their mistakes and question what makes a good drawing. This is often on my mind, many of my favourite drawings by other artists are...
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Continuing with Abstraction
I did these soon after my life drawing in abstraction session, the first five are charcoal and the last one is watercolour I’ve reverted back a bit to more representational drawing, this one has a...
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Rambert Dance Company
I was fortunate enough to visit the Rambert Dance Company in London and draw at their rehearsal. The rehearsal was at an advanced stage so the dance was fairly polished with a lot of fast, swift...
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Watercolours and Drawings
I seem to hover somewhere between abstraction and realism, I find it hard to be abstract This drawing started as a blind contour drawing, and like most of my drawings I end up interfering to get it to...
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Watercolours and Drawings
The first selection of drawings from the studio for 2018: And a photo of me at the Columbia Threadneedle Prize private view, looking awkward but happy. On until February 17th SaveSave SaveSave...
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