3rd year begins

Its been a really slow start for me this year. Lots of things going out with Uni, left a job that i wasent happy in and have been in for four years and now have no job. Poor but happy, living off of sass money and handing out the odd c.v now and again. I find it difficult to get back in the swing of things. However, im starting to see some progress.

 A quick snap of my studio space, gathering crap already...

 Framed painting that i worked on near the end of summer

 Very small experimental painting

 Another mixed media experimental painting

 A painting that i worked on in the studio to get me started.

 The following pages are from a little book that i created for one of the one week module projects that we have to do, i chose to do materiality and meaning. For this one week project we were only aloud to use the colours black and white, we also had to only use one mark which was a simple line. I handed my book in as my final piece. These are only a few pages so that you get a rough idea of what i was doing. Its all very experimental .

 This self portrait is from the second module that we had to do, its based on a poem that everyone was given. Its based on the idea of me looking down at my old self, finally getting over things that have happend to me in the past and moving on as stronger person.

 I've also started to work in my little chairty shop find book.



Completed sketch book.

Front cover



Another small sketch book update.

I have recently been in a bit of financial bother which has left me with alot more time at home and less going out. I went in to the third year studios at Uni today to visit a good friend called Allan who has been using the studios to work in over the summer. Visiting the studios has got me really excited about going back, i have alot of new ideas and i know what route i want to go down. I think that third year will be more focused and tutors will expect us to know what line of work we want to do. I have been missing the whole atmosphere at Uni, i miss looking round at everyones work and just being really inspired by whats around me.

I have found more time to do my artists book but i feel that i should put it down for a while and concentrate on creating larger pieces. I deeply miss painting and doing large mixed media works. So this will be the last update on the artists book for a while. I will maybe put a post up of the final outcome at a later date.

A good friend of mines called Jone (who is also an artist) has gifted me two old cannon photographer cameras and a tripod, the cameras come with diffrent lenzes too, they are fantastic. Jones left me with over 80 hand made frames too, all are diffrent styles and sizes. So i have plenty to work with!
The next update will be of framed works.



Some recent sketch book stuff

Lyrics book found in a charity shop that will be used as a sketch book at some point.

Some old art ( very old )

 For sale

Oil painting, A3. Done in 2007

 For sale

A5 Acrylic sketch (framed)

For Sale

Acrylic Window, A1 (Framed)