A New Chapter

I have recently graduated with a First!! So now it's onto the next chapter! 


My plan is to work three days a week and spend the rest of my time working on new art and other projects related to my eventual career aim of art therapy. 


In the mean time here are a couple of pictures from my degree show...

‘Untitled (Chine Collé Print) III’, 2012. 37.3 x 21cm. Etching, Chine Collé and Embossment on Magnani Litho White.

Showing in Birmingham

Yesterday was an extremely long and busy day- third year Fine Art and Fine Art Illustration hung our show at the Custard Factory in Birmingham. There were moments when I didn't think it would come together (for example, at about 11am, with seven and a half hours till the opening night when all the work was still packed up in the middle of the room!) but when it was finished it looked great!

My work was quite easy to hang (although there were a few complications because the walls were harder than expected!) and I was really pleased with how they looked in the end:

Etching and aquatint on Magnani Litho 310gsm. Series of 4 pieces titled 'Space and Form I, II, III, IIII", 2012.

This has been a great experience in understanding what will be important for the degree show. I think this work looks at about the right scale to be unframed, but I think that smaller works for the degree show will need to be framed to have the right impact.
Fingers crossed that the rest of Intermission will be as successful as the opening night! It's on 9.30am to 7.30pm until Sunday 19th February.

New year, new post (finally!)

Now I'm back at Uni for the second half of my final year, I felt I should get back to blogging again! It's been a very hectic first week back, but it's also been fairly productive too. I went to Birmingham yesterday to the IKON gallery to see the Stuart Whipps and John Myers exhibitions- both were really interesting and have made me think about how my work could develop over the next few months. The light was also really nice so took some photos of some of the Brutalist structures around the city.

Digital photograph of Birmingham Central Library (John Madin)

I am continuing to explore printing processes and have moved into aquatint and etching (although I am planning some screenprinting soon.

This image is an etching that was part of the work I submitted to HDTI in Coventry and is now displayed in their offices. More images of work will be posted soon!

As ever, feedback would be great!!