Drawings

Recently I have been taking on drawing again. I think every artists should keep up with their drawing skills as it does fade away when its not practiced regularly. I noticed that my skills are a bit rusty after a long period of focusing on learning different mediums. It is weird how I have been studying art at the university for several years now and actually haven't practiced drawing. It seems that many artists have taken drawing back in to their practice. I have always enjoyed drawing and I am glad that I started it properly again. Many of the drawings I show in this post are based on things what I seem to "doodle" on the corner of notes in the lectures or other things I draw when I am just passing time. I have plans to print these on fabric with silk screen, pillow cases maybe,-saying this I have just revealed what my christmas presents to some people might be, but I hope they are so good that it wont matter that I spoiled the surprise!

Here I want to put a comment what my tutor said which was : "It is a little bit like knitting". It has been very time consuming and detailed, but that seems to be the thing I love doing.

Crochet balls!

For a while I have been obsessively crocheting these different color balls. I didn't know the purpose for these when I started, and I have several different ideas what might come out of them. What I do know that I want to make a lot of them and then when there is a lot, they are having a life on their own.

I want to learn to do stop motion animation, so I think these crochet balls are going to be my first experiment what comes to that. So far I have taken a series of images of them and over the weekend I am going to have some fun with them.

Enjoy the colors!

Jumpers in the Cavendish Gallery.

Hello again,

It has been so busy couple of weeks, and months actually, that I have not been able to update the blog. I have also being producing more work, and only today got around to start taking photos of it. Im going to do a few updates with what is going on, just today, I hope everybody enjoys to see the images as much as I have been enjoying making them.

First in this post, I am going to talk a little bit about how the jumper project is getting on. It is definitely growing and it is getting really heavy. I needed some help to carry it from my studio to the exhibition building, which luckily was only cross the road. I am really happy how many people have been donating their jumpers for me. It has been a big help and I am also touched by the fact that so many people seem to care about my work.

In this bit would be nice to thank the people who have been donating their jumpers for me so far:

Georgie Dixon

Abigail Webster

Jennifer Lawler

Faye Scott-Harrington

Hazel Jones

Pets in Need for Vets (charity)

Tony Holiday

Today I have been putting the jumpers up in the Cavendish Gallery, where it is available to view from Monday. I put the jumpers inside walls so that a person can actually walk in it. It is a soft, warm (a bit smelly) atmosphere as some of the jumpers are a bit old, but it is really cosy. As I was putting the jumpers up today at the gallery, I felt like I wanted to have a nap in there, wrapped in a massive jumper collage. As the project has been involving the audience from the start, I want it to be exhibited as that the audience can experience it and climb in it and feel it. This is the second time now that the jumpers are exhibited, and I am excited to hear the feedback. I am still collecting more jumpers and see how big it is going to be in a few months time!

I hope as many people who can, go and see the actual piece in the Cavendish Gallery, but for those who are not going, can enjoy the pictures.