Exploring an Island
As it has been for everyone the past couple of years has been full of changes and strangeness. I realised that I hadn’t written a…
Creating Vectaerovenator
Buy Your Print here Many of you will have seen this artwork pop up on your various news feeds in the past couple of days,…
Fossiling Adventures on the North coast
With our fantastic dinosaur discoveries here on the Isle of Wight the wonders of our lovely north coast are often overlooked and neglected. Across this…
Drawing a Life-size Sauropod Vertebra illustration
How to challenge yourself by drawing a Huge sauropod vertebra life-size in colour!
the biggest (quite literally) scientific illustration I have worked on so far, have a look at how a drawing develops over time and how colour effects the drawing process.
Testing some new watercolours
Dayler Rowney Artists Range I found the Dayler Rowney paints to mainly be of a good mix and little separation had occurred in the tubes,…
A New Chapter
The Past few months have been a strange period of mass adjustment and what they tell you in Art School is true… staying motivated may…
Current thoughts on the MA
Even If things are broken they are not they just HAVEN’T found THEIR purpose yet, I started the MA in September 2017 already my work…
Collecting In Shanklin
Several moths ago I was introduced to collecting fossils on Shanklin beach, here the cliff exposure changes along the bay however, the beach huts and…
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Moving away from stacking directly on the shelf, I began using sand to support fragmented porcelain pieces. This placement allows for distance between the individual…
Facing the pieces
Over the past year I have been struggling with how to exhibit and show my work. I now have a collection of fragments of porcelain…
Ainslie Henderson and Poppy Ackroyd
I recently gave a short seminar on various film to the rest of my MA class, for this session I chose a variety of film…
Tacita Dean
I was recently introduced to the work of Tacita Dean and found her work in a volume of Vitamin D in the library, from the…
Current Studio Reflectons
Since starting the MA my practice has altered, I am now beginning to investigate how my current concepts have shifted and understand how this directly…
Fossil Slabs Second Experiment
Yesterday I re-visited the fossil slabs at Yaverland, this time I was lucky enough to have some help to move the larger slabs further onto…
Re-walking the Red Cliffs
These are the cliffs I walk, under, over, again and again and again. These are the Cliffs I re-visit retracing new steps each time. My…
Fossil Slabs Beach Experiment
For some time I have been wanting to experiment with some fossil slabs on Yaverland beach. the slabs themselves contain many fossilized shells along with…
Studio Thoughts
My heads too crowded There’s someone screaming about memories, whilst other calls to the cracks in my work. This…
Shanya Lieb
Glass sculptor, Lieb is an american artist Known for her glass blowing. She graduated with an MFA in 2003 specialising in glass and metalwork. she…
Suzie Mcmurray
Looking at the work of Susie MacMurray, I enjoy her playfulness with materials she describes herself as an alchemist and I relate to this material…
Shark Teeth Of Bracklesham
A range of Fossilised Sharks Teeth A Collection Of Fossilised Teeth One Of the best fossiling finds at Bracklesham is shark teeth, these range greatly…
Fossiling In Bracklesham
A large Turitella Fossiling at Bracklesham is normally a rewarding trip when it comes to finds, my first trips out there were rather unsuccessful only…
Jennine Marchand
Marchand uses white clay in a similar way to my initial experiments at the beginning of my MA, after investigating her work more thoughtfully I…
Experimenting with Projectors and Porcelain
Unfortunately the old light I used for photographing my work has been broken and not replaced, so I ended up having to improvise using an…
A Brief Introduction to the Geology of Isle Of Wight
Just a short write up about some of the islands geology. On the isle of wight we are exceptionally lucky with our geology due to…
The translucency of porcelain
High Fired porcelain wall mounted After some experimentation I have come to understand the two valuable components that allow porcelain to become translucent. My porcelain…
Studio Wall February 2018
Currently Enjoying my wall of inspiration, the photographs are from my recent fossiling trips along with my own glazes on hand cut ceramic tiles, the…
Thoughts
March 20, 2018 CONTEMPLATING THE CURRENT POSITION OF MY PRACTICE 20/03/2018 I have been considering where my practice currently lies and after conversations I consider…
In conversation with Alessandro Zembelli
I was lucky enough to gain a tutorial with the visiting artist Alessandro Zembelli, an interdisciplinary architect. during his lecture I felt that…