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Walking off a Cliff: Creating when Injured
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
NaBloPoMo XVII: The Virtue of the Virtual
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
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NaBloPoMo IV: Digging and Delving
“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
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NaBloPoMo III: The Extraordinariness of the Ordinary
“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
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Walking the Earth
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
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Art in Progress
I’ve started a suite of mixed media works on canvas, using my newly-renovated garden as subject matter and outdoor studio. Here’s a section of the first.
I’m using a technique I developed while doing work for Arthouse Co-op’s Sketchbook Projects. Continue reading
Posted in Art, Mixed Media, Painting
Tagged Art, Canada, Digital Printmaking, London, media collage, Mixed media, Painting, Visual arts
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