Pigment and Place. I bought and thoroughly enjoyed Eleanor Nairne’s book Brutal Beauty about the work of Jean Dubuffet. Dubuffet appealed to me because he rejected traditional art and favoured the use of unorthodox materials, texturology and assemblage. I found myself mesmerised by his paintings of the life of...
Making Sense of my Making – Monoprint
The print as trace. Monoprint is an entirely new element of my practice. Until this module, I had never before attempted to make a monoprint. I purchased some books on it, built a kit of equipment, watched a lot of videos and began to experiment. I welcomed the fact...
Making Sense of my Making – Poetry
Poetry, the golden string that weaves it all together. With a BA (Hons) In English & Creative Writing, again, like Photography, this was a more familiar practice to turn to. However, the element of risk came from the act of sharing what I had written; the risk of vulnerability....
Making Sense of my Making – Photography
Photography & Psychogeography as a Form of Inner Mapping This was where it all began, what I clung to as I found out we were developing a body of work which demonstrates a personal exploration of contemporary arts practice. We were prompted to think about our existing practice (did...
Assemblage
As I’ve walked, through the landscape and seasons, I have collected wild flowers and brought them home to press. I wasn’t entirely sure if I should/would use them in my body of work. Then, admittedly after reading a lot of DeLanda and Deleuze and Guattari, I was thinking about...
Critical Mirrors
Recently, I met a potter, who unwittingly became a critical mirror (Brookfield in Mezirow et al, 2000, p.146). I was on holiday, fresh from the frenetic nature of the end of term, with my family in Cornwall. We had spent the day exploring the north coast and were teasing...
Devouring Books…
This is a comprehensive list of my critical and wider reading for anyone who is interested in how I got to where I am with my thinking and inspiration! It goes off on a lot of tangents like a rhizome. References List: Albani, L. (2022) The Sea Blazed Gold....
Epochal Moments and the Landscape of Becoming
After experimenting further with creating different pigments, gathered from significant walks, I had the idea to layer the pigments in a palimpsest print. The process of layering the different pigments, from different but significant places to me (and historically), felt important, crucial, magical even. I kept renumerating – dare...
Where the Path Merges With the Stream
Following the golden string not out of liminality, but into it…...
Capturing the Landscape
In seeking to connect my outer and inner landscape, I wanted to explore processes that allowed me to physically make a connection with the landscape through my artwork by capturing it. Obviously poetry and photography are at the heart of this, but I have also experimented with a variety...