Blog Post: August
Table-top litho printing and experimenting with small paintings
Since I went on the Liz Hough course at St Ives School of Painting in July, I’ve been trying out ideas using acrylic on board.
Last week I went with some fellow artists from Krowji to a CAMP printmaking kin day, organized by Nicky Harwood of the Creative Gym and Caroline Wilkins which was a lot of fun, topped off by an excellent veggie lunch at the local cafe. Nicky showed us how to do a tabletop litho print using very simple materials and this is something that I’ll definitely incorporate into my workflow and I’ll also try to overprint onto a drawing or painting next time I’m in the studio as I’d like to find a way of combining these that works.
The selection of images above shows some of the little paintings I’ve done, the litho print I made, and Nicky demonstrating the litho technique. I’ve also taken some work in to be framed ready for an exhibition we’re having at the Salthouse Gallery in St. Ives from September 25th for a week.
Blog Post 1
It all begins with an idea.
This week I’ve completely redesigned this website. I just wasn’t happy with it because the work it showed wasn’t the work I’m making now so I wanted to take back control and make it look how I had imagined it could do. I also thought it was about time I started a blog so here we are.
Last week I went on a course at the St Ives School of Painting called ‘Paths to Abstraction’; it was very interesting and showed us different ways of making one’s work less representational. Since I started the MA in 2018 I’ve got used to reading around everything that I do, so I’ve looked at ‘Search for the Real’ by Hans Hofmann, ‘Peter Lanyon’ by Andrew Causey, and ‘Ben Nicolson: drawings and painted reliefs’ by Peter Khoroche. I really liked the drawings in the Ben Nicolson book, I had no idea that he was such a brilliant draughtsman but what I liked was that he made the view he was drawing his own, it wasn’t just a representational drawing, it had a life of its own, containing him as well. I found the book engrossing to read as it described the development of his career and artwork and how this intertwined with his family life.