Friday 27 May 2016

Year of Printmaking: Trees out the Window



Mini print this week, looking out the window at winter trees (which now have burst into full bloom).

Friday 20 May 2016

Year of Printmaking: Maypole


I'm a bit late with this months calendar print but here's some funky Maypole dancing for May.

{Also see January, February, March and April}


Tuesday 17 May 2016

Women Artists to See in the UK



There's always lots of art to see, but lately I've added lots of women artists to my wishlist to see! So I thought I'd highlight these women; some well known and thought about for years, others unknown and waiting to be discovered.

Georgina Houghton: Spirit Drawings at the Courtauld Gallery, London 
--Free, abstract, colourful, automatic, spirit watercolours by this Spiritualist Medium painting in the mid-late 19th Century.

 

Mona Hatoum at Tate Modern, London
--Contradictions, energy and emotion pulsate through simple conceptual juxapositions.


Georgia O'Keefe at Tate Modern, London
--Big Stunning Flowers Y-E-S, but also New Mexico landscapes and skulls.

Ella Kruglyanskaya at Tate Liverpool
---Portraits, conversations, relationships, everyday life...


Maria Lassnig at Tate Liverpool
--Gestural, evocative surreal figurative work


Rachel Whiteread at Tate Britain, London
---Plaster, rubber, resin sculpture casts of negative space of the everyday.


Winifred Nicholson in Cumberland at Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendal


Winifred Knights at Dulwich Picture Gallery, London


Woman & Child - Nora Neilson Gray

Modern Scottish Women at Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh



Friday 13 May 2016

Year of printmaking: Window/curtain


I've been working on some sketches & paintings of windows lately looking at the division between outside/inside, secure/insecure, private/exposed. . . So for this weeks print here is a linocut sketch of my window/curtain to the outside world in that moment. 


Sunday 8 May 2016

Year of Printmaking: Grey Monoprints


Quick series of grey monoprints, might become backgrounds to be developed into something else....