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I spent the day making a belly cast of my friend's pregnant bump! I brushed up on my casting skills by watching a bunch of video tutorials before starting and I leaned back on my past experiences of casting. It was all quite exciting, remembering how important the release agent is. We decided on just [...]
Last week I attended a morning of life drawing at the Airetiko Ariel Art Retreat in the Las Alpujarras mountains, southern Spain. It was an exhilarating and creative experience because I had no time to think and I didn't know what was going to happen next. Would the super fit models hold their poses long [...]
All about Eve, an older Eve on a large scale oil painting on canvas - http://eepurl.com/bYwQPf
crs1138 and Miss Plunkett came out of early retirement last weekend to VJ at a lovely outdoor party in the mountains of Southern Spain. I have only VJ'ed once in the last three years and couldn't locate my hard drive of clips at first because we have moved house twice in the meantime. We set [...]
The University of Alcalá, Madrid has chosen my watercolours to illustrate this years flamenco program. So I suppose, I can take it as an endorsement from the flamenco establishment!
And just so you know, I do a good line in turquoise art too! - http://eepurl.com/bU9RqL
March 2016 – ongoing. I feel chuffed to have more of my sculptures accepted into the indoor gallery part of the Kitty Harri sculpture garden. There is so much beautiful art to see. Every time I look around, I get distracted by something different. New art is added to the collection regularly and artists are submitting [...]
This months newsletter is all about stoneware birdbaths - http://eepurl.com/bR77EP
Trying to paint in the same studio as a five year old was a bit of a challenge. Inevitably I ended up with some blue ink on my nice pink painting, you needn't worry though, I managed to fix it. I have a selection of coloured inks, each in it's own saucer and each with various [...]
My new style abstracts got extended to some hearts - http://eepurl.com/bOKJ8j
More pink! Someone once said to me, as I pondered out loud about my attraction to pink frilly things, "Not to worry, it's just your hormones" - http://eepurl.com/bNCzir
Thank you to my talented friends, Albi Knight (film student) and Dara Harbison (photography student), for inspiring these photographs with their light paintings. New Year's Eve shenanigans around the campfire! I instigated the photo session not knowing what would happen. I set up a sturdy tripod and found the long exposure setting on my camera. Eight second [...]
