August 13th, 2010

I’d never heard of the artist Ran Hwang until today – I was using the new Google image search facility – which I absolutely love as it’s just so organic now – and just happened upon an image of some of her work. I clicked through to her website and was amazed. She uses buttons and pins and large expanses of wall and creates the most amazing images. I guess it could be a modern day take on pointillism in that when you see the work up close, it just looks like a load of dots, but when you stand back and your eyes adjust, the dots merge to form birds and cherry blossom etc.

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July 23rd, 2010

Just found this really lovely illustration/print by Allan Peters on the Grain Edit website and I love it. It’s so cute. I gues I’m a bit partial to bicycles at the moment as the Tour de France is on every day and so I’ve got bicycles on the brain.

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July 16th, 2010

If you’re a follower of my blog, you’ll know that I was involved in a very interesting project recently which involved making a piece of work from another artist’s rubbish. I was sent a shoebox in the post with lots of interesting items within it and set to work on making a piece of work or two. You can read more about that process here. I just thought I’d write a quick post to update you on what has happened to the work…

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June 25th, 2010

Did anyone catch the latest episode of Imagine on Tuesday night on BBC One? It was brilliant. Entitled ‘Art is Child’s Play’ it delved into childhood experience of play and tried to make a connection between early creativity to artistic endeavours later on in life. Lots of Britain’s leading artists were interviewed about their practice by the lovely Alan Yentob and offered fascinating insights into the transformative power of their early creative experiences.

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June 17th, 2010

I had a glorious day in the sunshine today putting hte glass into my greenhouse at long last. In the aftertoon, to cool off I took the dog down the beach and went paddling in the sea. I rolled my trouser up to my thighs and pushed them up as high as they could go so I could go far into the water – it was so warm in the shallows that I wish I’d put my swimming costume on and gone for a dip!

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June 3rd, 2010

I went up to Dundee at the weekend to see the degree show and was mostly disappointed by what I saw. Only a handful of talented folk stood out. One in particular that amazed me was Linsey McGregor who’s work is paper based. On display were some extraordinary pieces of body art/jewellery and these were accompanied by a video of her transforming a flat sheet of paper into something amazing.

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March 12th, 2010

Claire Brewster’s work is about retrieving the discarded, celebrating the unwanted and giving new life to the obsolete. In her own words – “You can tell as much about a society by what it throws out as by what it puts in its museums as mementos of prior existence.” Utilising maps that are rendered obsolete over time by the ever changing borders of countries and shifting continents, Claire creates beautiful intricate cut-out art and displays them like entomological studies. Birds, insects and flowers shown migrating from country to country are in a moment, captured and pinned within box frames and put on display to form records of our  past times.

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July 24th, 2009

My other half is an artist and he recently submitted some proposals for work to the up and coming Cupar Arts Festival. One of his proposals was selected as the recipient of a Visual Arts Award established by the organisers of the arts festival, Cupar Arts & Heritage Project (CAHP).

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