Category Archives: Painting

A Return to Painting

Posted on July 9, 2021 by AnnIsikArts

The above image marks a surprise return to painting after a good number of years during which I painted only sporadically and without much success. Life and all that. An email arrived earlier this year, out-of-the-blue, inviting me onto a … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Blogging, Choral singing, Painting, Singing, Singing Sacred, Writing | Tagged Acrylic Painting, Eco Printing, L'Isle-Adam, Messa Di Gloria, Nettle, Puccini | 1 Comment

Living and Dyeing

Posted on October 27, 2014 by AnnIsikArts

“Walking was an essential component of our work. There was music. There were rich silences. Times of deep listening, experiential drawing and the gathering of “gorgeous nothings”…spontaneous poetry noted while wandering as well as performances of aleatory poetry created by reading together.”

Is this Heaven? This is Australian artist India Flint talking about the first of some masterclasses she held this year in Newburgh, a village on the banks of the River Tay (Scotland). It was a site-specific four-day intensive focussing on “… the deep experience of place through immersion in this very particular tidal riparian landscape.” She explains, … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Encaustic Art, Inspiration, Mixed Media, Nature Journal, Painting, Photography, Printmaking, Walking, Writing | Tagged Digital Printmaking, digital printmaking, dyeing, encaustic art, fine art printmaking, Gelli Printing, India Flint, Knitting, Monoprint, Monoprints, print making, printing, textile art, Walking as Metaphor, Walking on Purpose | 4 Comments

Walking off a Cliff: Creating when Injured

Posted on July 13, 2014 by AnnIsikArts

I did. Well, I slid part way down the bottom bit and smashed my shoulder, a week ago today. Might need surgery. Fingers crossed. It was all very dramatic. Two ambulances. (Did they think I was in bits that would … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Artist Sketchbooks, Inspiration, Painting, Research, spirituality, Walking | Tagged artistic vocabulary, Brown Line, Cave painting, Walking, walking accident, Walking by the Sea, wrong-handed painting | 11 Comments

St Francis Gives Me An Image

Posted on July 6, 2014 by AnnIsikArts

The last time I wrote about art, I reported how I’d broken my printer trying to print on paper coffee filters. Before taking the mangled machine to printer hospital, I had one last go at healing it myself. And this … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Christian writing, Encaustic Art, Inspiration, Mixed Media, Painting, Photography, Printmaking, spirituality, Writing | Tagged Aylesford Priory, Christian Writing, Digital Printmaking, divine love, fan, four elements, Monoprints, Spiritual, St Clare, St Francis | 13 Comments

NaBloPoMo XVII: The Virtue of the Virtual

Posted on November 17, 2013 by AnnIsikArts

I visit a lot of artists and galleries, every week. This is due to the Internet. This is one of the Internet’s greatest achievements, I think: that creative people all round the world can make virtual visits to, share, each other’s work and philosophies. Such interaction would be impossible, physically. Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Inspiration, Painting, spirituality, Writing | Tagged Art, Art Reviews, Cubism, Dora Maar, Internet, NaBloPoMo, online art, online art galleries, Picasso, Spanish Civil War, Tate Britain, virtual reality, Weeping Woman | Leave a comment

NaBloPoMo IV: Digging and Delving

Posted on November 4, 2013 by AnnIsikArts

“It’s on the strength of observation and reflection that one finds a way. So we must dig and delve unceasingly.” Claude Monet (1840-1926) Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Painting, spirituality | Tagged Art, Édouard Manet, Berthe Morisot, Claude Monet, Giverny, Impressionism, Painting, Water Lilies | 1 Comment

NaBloPoMo III: The Extraordinariness of the Ordinary

Posted on November 3, 2013 by AnnIsikArts

“Art is the demonstration that the ordinary is extraordinary.” Amadée Ozenfant (1886-1966) Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Inspiration, Painting | Tagged Cubism, Giorgio Morandi, Le Corbusier, Matisse, NaBloPoMo, Ozenfant, Picasso, Purism | Leave a comment

Walking the Earth

Posted on August 14, 2013 by AnnIsikArts

I’ve just had a newsletter drop into my email box from an artist whose work I admire: Bridgette Guerzon Mills. There was a lovely image in the newsletter of Walking the Earth, an artist book that includes encaustic, plaster gauze, sticks, leaves, bark, thread and oil stick. Bridgette, who suffered terrible artistic losses earlier this year in a flood that damaged her studio, is about to teach at The Red Thread Retreat. Red Thread Retreat is the vision of artist Lesley Riley. Continue reading →

Posted in Altered Books, Art, Art Journal, Collage & Assemblage, Encaustic Art, Folklore & Mythology, Inspiration, Mixed Media, Painting, Walking | Tagged Art Journal, artist retreat, Bridgette Guerzon Mills, The Red Shoes, The Red Thread Retreat, visual journal, Walking, Walking on Purpose, Walking the Earth, Web Site Reviews | Leave a comment

The Studio: Travelling Canvas Project

Posted on July 3, 2013 by AnnIsikArts

I joined The Studio: April Cole’s Facebook community of mixed media artists, earlier this year and decided to participate in the July group project, called Travelling Canvas. You send a canvas off and it travels round a small number of … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Collage & Assemblage, Mixed Media, Painting, Printmaking | Tagged Digital Printmaking, Facebook, Gelli Printing, Mid West, Minnesota, Mixed media, Monoprints | 3 Comments

On My Worktable Today

Posted on February 20, 2013 by AnnIsikArts

I spent a couple of days making stencils to use on my Gelli Plate. I made them from photos and diagrams of DNA, chromosomes, DNA Barcoding, double helices, human karyotype, all to do with my latest art project: Below The … Continue reading →