I am currently a Fine Art undergraduate, studying part-time at Bath Spa University in the UK, one of the members of the Global Academy of Liberal Arts (GALA) network. I went on a short placement to Namibia in late Summer 2025 with the aid of funding from GALA. I attended one of the other GALA […]
For many of my works, including the 3D Tubies series the titles I choose are about how we cope with what life throws at us. Often drawn from song lyrics. From Tear’s for Fear’s Shout, shout let it all out, Paris Paloma’s unexpectedly heartfelt piercing line “how gentle can our violence be, betwixt finger and […]
I wanted to expand the Tubie world into seated figures. This proved exceedingly difficult! The aluminium ducting is very resistant to bending. Simon the very knoweldgeable Metalwork technician at Bath Spa uni batted away every suggestion I came up with to achieve this. Eventually he told me to go away! As short of running it […]
My current work centres around Tubies. These 3D objects exist in the boundary of sculpture and painting. They are painterly but inhabit the 3D world of sculpture. . Please note that I have dropped the Tubie images into a virtual gallery space to give you an idea of the scale. And I am the blue […]
This is my review of ArtPlacer – the Virtual exhibition site. I looked at its main competitor Kunstmatrix. And this is why I chose ArtPlacer. The ArtPlacer site is very easy to navigate. It has sections for setting up Virtual exhibitions, an Artworks page where your artworks are searchable even when you haven’t placed them […]
This piece was a development from my Quasi abstract heads. The wood frame – the upright is attached with a dowel and screw to secure it. Building up the structure. The larger blocks will not adhere using plaster alone so I am using scrim (netting) soaked in plaster to wrap and hold the blocks. The […]
I enjoy working on large canvases. They allow me to use my whole upper body to make broad gestural marks when applying the paint to the canvas. For these 2 paintings I used household brushes rather than artists brushes as they allowed me to load a large quantity of paint onto the brush. […]