Unlearning is about changing your perception and looking at things in a different way. Professor Baldacchino in his seminar in GOMA, 2013 stated that as an artist one learns by ways of unlearning, by making mistakes, by turning art works on their head, we see things from a different viewpoint, with a different perception. Continue reading (Un)learning/(un)doing art
Finding a ‘place’ or ‘space’ can be difficult in a family home with two young children and a growing art practice. I feel it is important for my family to experience me painting and being creative as this may influence them, but like all kids, art is just such fun. As can be seen from the images, the family dining table features strongly and is a hub of activity. In the Spring I have made plans to move to the garage and make a ‘place’ for myself there, so watch this ‘space’. Continue reading My Place (space)
This series of chalk drawings began as a demonstration to one of my S5 pupils studying Portraiture for the Expressive unit. We both started the drawing together and I tried to encourage my student to be a bit more expressive in her approach. I was standing working she was seated. As the work progressed I found the need to add an additional sheet of A3 paper onto my study as it had developed somewhat. (This can be seen in eye 1 and eye tulip). Continue reading Current work/work in progress
These are quite different studies, of the same subject, The Five Sisters,(which I find myself returning to time after time),and capture, in their own way the essence of the subject matter. The ‘Five Sisters’ shale bings, a reminder of the extensive mining which occurred in the West Lothian area and beyond until 1947 when the Burngrange disaster struck this small mining village, killing 15 men in an underground explosion and fire. Continue reading Nostalgia: The Five Sisters
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