tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-243557962012-01-26T16:36:06.320ZBlog about my latest art work, exhibitions I've visited or am part of and photographic and art made in response to areas in my life.Padmayoginihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15291459057310941368noreply@blogger.comBlogger1941100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24355796.post-82527508050594169592012-01-26T08:12:00.009Z2012-01-26T16:36:06.330Z

The London Ice Sculpting Festival was on again at Canary Wharf, there was a sporting theme to tie in with the Olympics.( I'm wondering just how many art events will be on sport/competition/Olympics this year) So I'm still waiting for all the artic animals to appear one year.The setting in the heart of all the finance and commercial buildings is interesting if a little strange. The tall buildings

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Still busy this week with sorting cards and prints for the craft fair at The Mill tomorrow 9th December 11-5pm The Mill is at 7-11 Coppermill Lane, Walthamstow, London E17 7HA (Google Maps. Waltham Forest Arts Club is also having a stall there with a number of artists work, and there will be knitwear, jewellry and cakes. I do actually like looking round craft fairs myself, there are a growing

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I went to see Grayson Perry's latest exhibition at the British Museum, The Tomb of the Unknown Craftsman last week. Exhibition info here.I really like Grayson Perry's work, including his vibrant irreverent ceramic pieces, with their collaged surfaces and painted and scratched designs of which there were several in the exhibition. He had spent a few years researching the objects in the British

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I have been over to the Occupy London Stock Exchange camp outside St Paul's a few times now.The protest group was stopped from camping outside the London Stock Exchange by the police and so set up next to St Paul's Cathedral, which next to Paternoster Square where the Stock Exchange is.Paternoster Square is like many new developments in London, a piece of private land, and concern to many

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The exhibition at Atlantis Bookshop has come down and is up at the Moontree Gallery in Bournemouth thanks to Courtney who has taken these pictures of the show going up. Courtney is giving a talk there this evening, Merlin to Infinity at 7.30pm. LInk to the Moontree Gallery heregI have been working on the Street photography exhibition for The Mill "Mill on the Street" The Mill has formed as a

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Courtney and I put up our exhibition on Monday, I'd finished another painting, Land of the Dragon which went up as well. Following the intuitive and imaginative way of working that I've used for the other paintings in this series, the landscape slowly emerged. I knew it was waiting for a being of some sort of being and a red dragon seemed to be the creature needed. This landscape actually turned

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I have been continuing to explore this more symbolic and mythical strand to my work where symbols like the moon seem to appearing in abundance. I am still working intuitively with these paintings, reflecting and allowing forms to arise in my mind or directly on the canvas.In Tree of Stars, and Homage to the Moon I was drawing on the traditions of the Tree of Life, or World Tree. The tree that

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Early Monday morning Oxford Street's High Street Fashion Week, , got off to a colouful and dynamic start with acrobats, unicyclist, jugglers and a human spinning wheel. I really enjoyed the vision of circus performers and the circus music playing in the heart of the West End.Traffic was brought to a standstill and early commuters watched as the fashion themed circus performers took to the centre

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Vestry House Museum was the scene for a drawing event on saturday that Julie Caves, Julian Beere and members of the Waltham Forest Art Club organised. It was a perfect afternoon, the sun was shining and the gardens were moving into Autumn with plenty of apples on the trees.A number of younger visitors enjoyed themselves studing and drawing the plants. I got chance to make a quick sketch of one of

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It was great yesterday to meet up with a group of fellow artists to hang our art offerings on the Lime trees near Walthamstow bus station. It was part of the E17 Art Trail, Art Grows on Trees. I have been part of this from the beginning some years ago, and it was good to have some new artists involved this year, with even more art work on the trees. I had been making lots of tiny

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I've still been busy working on some more paintings for the next couple of exhibitions and getting things ready for the E17 Art Trail. My paintings, Stones Guard the Mysteries of Earth, above and Night of Mysteries below, both include standing stones. In the painting above, the colour of the harvest and corn came first in the work, evolving into swirling cornfields reflecting the patterns of

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I've been working hard on a series of new paintings for some exhibitions comimg up in the Autumn with some friends of mine. The top painting is called Landscape of Ancient Dreams. It's an acrylic on board and I'm pleased with the colours of the acrylics and the glow of all those moons! Often in this form of painting my process is highly intuitive, I don't ask many questions of myself and just

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The annual Art Car Boot fair, info here was held off Brick Lane again on the 19th June. I always enjoy the mix of stalls and sense of a little bit of anarchy in the event. In the end Peter Blake couldn't make it apparently, but Gavin Turk, Billy Childish, Pam Hogg and taxidermist Polly Morgan, (whose tiny quail chicks on toothbrushes were in the news), were some of the artists there.There were

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Last weekend was the Chelsea Flower Show, I always enjoy being surrounded by the gardens and plants. This year a lot of the gardens had a very subdued palette of colours, which wasn't helped by it being the coldest Chelsea that I've been to for some years. There had been some sunny days in the week, but on Saturday when I went the weather had turned cool and showery.Diarmuid Gavin's pink pod

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I got to see Ai Weiwei's Circle of Animals Zodiac Heads, his new sculptural installation at Somerset House, last week.It is an installation of 12 bronze sculptures of animal heads, the animals being the traditional animals of the Chinese Zodiac including, dragon, horse, monkey and rabbit. Ai Weiwei based his sculptures on traditional Chinese designs and they are quite striking in the courtyard of

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I have been busy getting work ready for the E17 Designers market on this Friday at the Asian Centre, 18a Orford road, E17 9LN May 13th 7-10pm. link to site and more info here The craft markets have a really good range of products and do showcase what skilled designers we have in the area. There is also live music, wine and soft drinks and goody bags to be won, so a good evening out if you can

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Ruth and I went out to Arundel for my birthday It was lovely weather, blue skies and sunshine and I had my new Sanyo Xacti photo and video camera that Ruth had brought me.We started at the cathedral at the top of the town via a short taxi ride from the station. The spire was missing from the cathedral being restored, but due back on soon.The cathedral was finished in 1873 and built in the French

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It's halfway through the Photographers Gallery Street Photography now project.top picture is from Photographers Gallery Instruction 24. "Follow the money" Stephen Mc Laren.I have managed to follow all but 2 sets of instructions. It is quite challenging keeping the instruction in mind and finding an image to fit the brief. This is the last image with others from the group I uploaded to

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I was pleased to be able to get down to the march last Saturday and to cheer on and talk to some of the protesters as well as taking some photographs of the days events. The scale of the cuts is huge and we don't really know exactly whats going to happen yet, but the arts has just lost millions too and that even though as an industry it contributes far more to the economy than it recieves,It

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Just been out to see the exhibition of the Egyptian Book of the Dead at the British Museum before it closes in a few days time.Really busy in the exhibition, slowly queuing to look at the work in the first few rooms, rather tired when I got to the final room, which was a shame because there were not many people there.It was a moving and intense experience, I am always cagey about exhibitions

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I headed down to the Whitechapel Gallery this week to see John Stezaker's exhibition of photographic collage work. I have started to make some small collages myself as cards and have been interested in this way of working for a long time. John Stezaker had some interesting work, most of the work was based around portraits, a lot of Film stars from the

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Sunday saw the annual Chinese New Year celebrations around China Town, Soho and Trafalgar Square. After being caught up in a rather scary crush in some of the narrow streets last year, I went primarily to Trafalgar Square.I think there even more people this year and it's estimated over 300,000 people celebrate the event. Trafalgar Square was packed as were all the pavements and streets around,

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I have started putting up the second part of my Four seasons exhibitions at the Hornbeam this week. The Season being Winter this time.There are two paintings downstairs," Snow Falls into Silence" and" Winters Morning Dawns Clear and Calm". These are acrylics of winter landscapes, the colouring has a touch of an imaginary world, snow flakes fall down and glitter highlights one piece.Upstairs

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I was walking in St James's Park last week and was pleased to see the pelicans near the path. I hadn't been that near to them before and was surprised as I came near to see that one of the pelican's was allowing people to stroke its head.I took photos of the swans and pelicans and also tentatively stroked the head and neck of the nearest pelican. The feathers were soft and cool, longer feathers

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Alban has been organising another exhibition of miniature magnetic art works,( fridge magnets) as part of Nottingham's Light Night Event. There looks like a lot of good events on if you are near the Nottingham area. info about Light Night Events hereI really like his idea of leaving the fridge magnets around on the street for passers by to pick up and have joined in when I can. Alban's blogspot

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I visited the London Ice Sculpting Festival info here, today at Canary Wharf, where there were a number of international teams carving their sculptures from blocks of ice.They were having problems this year as the weather has turned much milder and with all the recent rain, sculptures that had been made yesterday had already melted. Today they were dripping and shiny with slick ice as fast as

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I've just been going through my sketch books looking at the drawings I made at my class in the British Museum last term.It was good to spend a bit more time in the different galleries again and to be with a group of great people. I had to get used to the dozens of people looking over my shoulder again, making comments to each other about the work and being photographed!. It didn't take me too

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The South Bank and London Eye have been lit up with lights and a traditional market for the festive season. I was walking round before Christmas enjoying the festive atmosphere of the market. Walking along the river front towards the London Eye the Houses of Parliament were lit up and reflections glowing in the river Thames.It seemed a popular spot for people taking photos of each other with Big

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I've been taking photos of the Christmas lights and decorations, ice rinks, markets and shop fronts on my visits around town.I always feel a bit excited when the streets are lit up, what ever the occasion. I didn't manage any fireworks this year so the Christmas lights are making up for that. Bit disappointed with the lights at Covent Garden this year, though the kissing tree is a bit of a

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By chance picking up my photographs from Print Space in Kingsland road ( who are worth looking at if you need photographic printing, link here. ) I spotted this exhibition in Flowers Gallery which is just a few door up.Really evocative photographs by Nadav Kander of views along the Yangtze river in China. Almost painful some of them, the contrast between the rapid industrialization and the

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I was off taking photos of the Lord Mayor's Show on Saturday, continuing with my documenting of the traditions in London. I hadn't been to the show before (quite often because the weather was bad and/or it's the season for colds and virus.)I was surprised to find that it was such an old tradition, apparently it was the 795th show, which is quite incredible and there was at least one man dressed

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I've put up a collection of photographs in the Hornbeam environmental centre and cafe, they are part of my Four Seasons theme where I hope to follow the Autumn season with the other 3 later as they happen in nature.The first part is called Autumn patchwork and is a collection of 8 photographs, punched with eyelets and tied together with raffia. These include the brilliant red of Acer leaves and

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I spotted an exhibition in Art Licks list Their link here if you want to hear about art openings in London.The exhibition was Hermetickals by Katherine Tulloh her website here. and was in Transition Gallery gallery website here. It was Katherine's interest in Swedenborg, his alchemical work and his dream diaries that drew me to her work.. On display a series of vibrant watercolours, which

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I went to see the October Plenty Festival at the weekend. The Lions Part a group of performers were running this Harvest Festival event an Bankside, Shakespeare's Globe and Borough Market.There was a great Berry or Green Man, Corne Queene and other costumed performers including a Hobby Horse and a wagon of harvest plenty.In the Globe they put on a play, The Tempests Masque which was good fun and

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I finally got to Frieze this year. I had been meaning to go for some years and hadn't managed it. Frieze seems to get a lot of hype and I suppose is the main International contemporary art fair here in London.Perhaps because I had expectations of it, I was a bit disappointed in the actual show. There were some good international galleries showing work that I found a bit different, but lots of

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In my quest to find remaining British traditions I have been out about when the weather was fine and one trip was out to Hampstead Heath for the Conker championships, welly wanging and morris dancing.The morris dancers were from Cecil Sharpe House, somewhere I still need to visit, and they had traditional costume including the hankies. Interestingly I did hear a few comments from people about how

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I have joined in with a new Street Photography project is a collaboration by The Photographers Gallery and Sophie Howarth and Stephen McLaren who have written the recent Street Photography now book.The project started on Oct 1st and instructions are posted online each week by leading photographers to inspire participants in their image of the week. Any one can join in at any time and 1 photo can

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I entered a quirky exhibition a little while ago called Flux in Space, link to exhibition page hereI liked the idea that the exhibition would be part of the space mission." 127 artists from 26 nations created an original postcard sized work of art in various media interpreting the themes of Space Exploration & the Arts, the Shuttle Program, Outer Space, Rockets, Astronauts, Astronomy, etc. In

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I had seen the event at Clarence House advertised for a few days before deciding to go on a day when there was to be an ethical fashion show at St James Palace (on the same site).I hadn't been there before and didn't know that Clarence House, Marlborough House, Lancaster House and St James's palace were all on the same site, just across from Buckingham Palace. Actually I have never been to the

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I picked up my photograph from Lauderdale House and found a really great exhibition of work there by David Hollington. His site here. I was intrigued by the mixture of Hindu and Christian/British symbolism and landscape and drawn to the delightful energy and expressions of the animals and birds in the painting.It's always great to find another artist tackling the subjects of spirituality, myth

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I managed to have a look at a few more exhibitions last week, as part of the Art trail as well as putting up some more free art for Art Grows on Trees. Dean had made some more of his great apples and bananas for the trees, and Alban had brought more of his fridge magnets for the trees and around the Trail.Dean had some more of his work at the Vestry House Museum, Sculptures and drawings including

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I'm just catching up with some of the photographs I've been taking over the last couple of weeks, there seems to have been a lot on this time of year, including the Deloitte Ignite festival at the Royal Opera House. I was drawn to Ignite by the Forest theme, curated by Joanna macGregor and Marina Warner's introductions to a number of short films.I did find the Opera House, which I hadn't been to

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Today I was putting up some more free art around the trees by the bus station in Walthamstow, with Dean, Dean putting up more of his great plaster fruit, his children helping out and Alban putting up some of his mini art works as fridge magnets. Alban's site here.Quite a lot of people were looking and picking art as soon as they were going up.I managed to have a look at the Walthamstow and

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The Southbank was filled with Morris Dancing and Folk Music the weekend 4th and 5th Sept.I managed to see a number of Morris troupes, take some photos and listen to a bit of music while I was there. I have been bringing these aspects of pagan and folk traditions together in my mind and thinking about a body of work in this direction for some years.The connection to the land or environment is

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On Saturday I went armed with prints and badges to the Lime trees outside the bus station in Walthamstow to put up some free art work.I always really enjoy putting it up and having passers by surprised by the gifts offered. The work didn't stay there long, I enjoyed seeing one young woman hugging a print to her chest looking really happy. I had a bit of time on Sunday to go exploring some of the

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Yesterday I joined Katja, Martin, Brenda, Valeria and other artists installing the visitors, as part of the E17 Art Trail, in the Vestry House Museum gardens. It was good to work with the team going backwards and forwards finding the right spot for all the beings and lovely weather, what more could you ask? I think people will enjoy going round looking for all the visitors. After the E17 Art

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This year I finally managed to enter some photographs in the Lauderdale House Photo Open competition, after thinking about it for a number of years. Info about Lauderdale house and events on here I really liked the house and park around it when I visited, the house is on Highgate Hill, an area I don't really know. There is a good cafe/restaurant there too always a plus point, and regular

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I am hanging my work tonight at the Hornbeam Environmental Centre and Cafe, ready for the private view and press event tomorrow as part of the E17 Art Trail info about the trail here The exhibition Common Grounds is a group show at the Hornbeam and FRP, the recycling project next door. There is some great work on show including painting, photography, textiles, artists books and mixed media

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The South Bank has a festival of Brazil on till the end of the month, and one of the works Project Morrinho is a model city, inspired by the work of young people in Rio de Janeiro, which is being built outside of the Festival Hall. I liked all the details including several this is not a favela signs. I'm not sure how well the conditions in a favela are really evoked by the piece, though I think

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I've put in a photograph to Outside World in an exhibition called Take Away. It's the sort of exhibition I like where you get to take away an other artists work at the end of the show.artists were asked to respond to the theme The Outside World and I chose one of my photographs of the Olympic site for the reasons I wrote about below.The exhibition is at The Outside World, 44 Redchurch Street, E2

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The 100sqft exhibition opened on Sunday at the Cholmeley Boys Club in Dalston. I hadn't been there before and enjoyed the quirky space, filled with various degrees of faded and well worn furniture and objects.That little corner of Dalston looks like it's getting some more creative re development, though the main street is much the same. The new rail station does look a bit like a maximum security

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I managed to get over to Hackney Wicked this year, an arts event held over a variety of studios and spaces around Hackney Wick. The area is still pretty run down, although the Olympic stadium and park are literally just over the river from Hackney Wick.There was a market there, which runs quite regularly, vintage, crafts, bric a brac and food. I liked the vibe, the alternative nature of the

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Ruth and I went out on a day trip to Cookham this week. I had wanted to go for a while as I really respond to some of Stanley Spencer's work. There are special deals on train fares too which make it easier to travel.It was really hot but fortunately overcast for the early part of the day, otherwise I don't think I'd have managed. Though not many signs, we walked down what seemed to be the only

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The Leytonstone Art Trail starts from 24th July till the first of August I have a piece of work with the 100sqft exhibition which is being held at the Luna Lounge 7, church lane. The 100sqft. The 100 pieces of work are prints along side Carne Griffith's work in the Luna Lounge and the Launch of the main 100sqft exhibition is on August 1st at the Cholmeley Boy's Club, Dalston.I have put in one of

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Ruth and I went to see the Summer Exhibition at the Royal Academy, these hare sculptures are the installation outside.I like to go each year, though I haven't entered work there for some time. I like to see what's been chosen, it is so subjective, the choices made by invited artists in some rooms as well as the work chosen from the public submissions.This year a lot of the work chosen from the

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Ruth and I went down to Lyme Regis for a few days, the weather was a mixture of strong winds, sun and clouds. We went on one of the fossil walks and found lots of fossils, mostly pieces but one good dinosaur vertibrae too. There was a tiny aquarium on in the harbour and these pipe fish moving in a graceful dance.I love the sea air and the expanse of sea and sky, the sea is a real turqouise

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Waltham Forest Arts Club is showing work now at the Waterworks Nature Reserve info about the waterworks here in an exhibition called I Do Like To be beside The Lea. More info here There is a good mix of work, sculpture, including a large fascinating piece by Martin Adams, Martin's site here Photographs,including some atmospheric photos by Paul Tucker, info about Paul's work here paintings and

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Alban Low has organised a Fab Fridge Magnets event at the Bath Arts Festival opening tonight till the 13th JuneThe little miniature art works, over a 100, are going out on the streets of Bath to be picked up by passers by. details here, There is a blog spot with details of all the artists taking part in the event here One of my tree pastels is on one of the magnets. I liked the idea, similar to

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I had thought the exhibition finished but was really pleased to find that Celeste Boursier- Mouge's installation at the Curve in the Barbican was still there. ( on till 23rd May) It has a flock of Zebra finches loose in the large space with a number of electric guitars that pick up the sounds made by the birds perching and walking on the strings.Absolutely fascinating, the finches are

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Saturday 15th of May is the opening of the Waltham Forest Arts Club exhibition Beyond Words. Our new venue, since the Changing Room Gallery will be closed for redevelopment, is in the Red Room in the arts and theatre pub, Ye Olde Rose and Crown in Hoe street Walthamstow. info about the venue hereI have put in 2 pieces of work, one artists book called Bird and one mixed media piece a bird light

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I have been wanting to see Frederic Leighton's house in Holland Park for some time, having heard about the amazing Arab room, when I finally decided to go I found out it was closed for major restoration work. But last week it re opened and I went along.Leighton was born in 1830 he was a painter and president of the Royal Academy in 1878. He commissioned this studio house in 1864 and sitting in

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The Hospital Club in Covent Garden is showing Video painting the first decade,by the Open Gallery, info here I have been interested in the idea of video painting since I first heard of it a couple of years ago. Mainly because it is one of the sorts of video work that I'd like to do. Hearing from Hilary Lawson, who founded the Artscape project in 2001, when he shot the first video paintings, was

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At the Tate for a workshop on how to talk about your work, run by Emerge and Shape. info here Very useful, I took a brief look in some of the galleries and at Michael Rakowitz's exhibition, Strike the Empire Back.The exhibition posed the influence of science fiction on the American and Iraqi military, especially Star wars. Michael Rakowitz took the symbol of the arch, crossed swords, used in Iraq

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I went to see the exhibition of Billy Childish's work at the ICA last week. Info on the exhibition here. I didn't know too much about him apart from the fact he lived in Chatham and wrote poetry and music and was a bit of a punk. It was good to see some of his work, artists books, paintings, prints, videos and poetry. A good article about Billy Childish here." you also walk up the sides of trees

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I have been thinking about a series of images and texts for Woman's Day and experimenting with spray painting and printing some paper.The series is called True Romance, this is the first piece that looks at the issue of equal pay for woman. I was surprised to find that equal pay was first enshrined in the 1950s and to see the discrepancy that there still is especially in part time work.It

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The British Museum has an exhibition of Mexican prints 1910-1960, Revolution on Paper, on at the moment till 5th April. I have only just managed to get there recently.The exhibition focuses on the socialist revolutionary prints by artists from the Taller del Grafica Popular, the national print workshop, Rivera's famous cover image Emiliano Zapata and his horse, and work by david Alfaro

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There was an Ice Sculpture Festival at Canary Wharf a short while ago, and I went along to check out what was happening. It was a bit of a surprise to see all the chainsaws and heavy hand tools, I'm not sure what I was expecting, and fascinating to see the forms taking shape.The theme was Cool Trading, so some more abstract shapes and figures were being carved. But there were also opportunities

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The Waltham Forest Arts Club has a winter exhibition on at the Vestry House Museum at the moment. I have 2 small paintings in there and was invigilating on Sunday.It's a small space in a quirky local museum, but it is valuable in being one of the few spaces available in the borough to show art work.There is a range of work on show from video, printmaking, 3D, painting and photography. My

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I have been pretty busy these last few weeks, I have started teaching my courses at the City Lit. (November and December) and have been sorting out cards and other items for the Christmas craft fairs coming up.I also have 3 large photographs at the exhibition, "Roots and Remembrance" at St Andrews, Leytonstone. The exhibition is part of a programme for the arts, Tree of Life, more info here

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This year I finally managed a couple of art fairs, I have been planning visits for a number of years but never manged to get to any. Autumn seems the time of year when all the fairs are happening, literally some at the same time. I suppose this is to encourage visitors/buyers from abroad to come over and see them all.I didn't manage Frieze, but I got to Zoo, which this year was held in some old

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I went to the Photo Month Photo Fair at Spitalfields Market to check out the new format of the show. There weren't as many stands as I thought, though there was a mix of people and organizations there showing work and services.I think it is a much more competitive market for photography now than it was even 5 years ago, with most people able to take their own photographs now, with many mobiles

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Last week I went to see the Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan, their website here at the Barbican. I had heard their director speak at the conference of Buddhist Arts at the V&A and he had shown clips of their performances.Im was impressed by their work and looked to see if they were coming to Britain.This performance,Wind Shadow was a rather darker production than those he had showed us, but

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I have 3 photographs in the Photomonth open exhibition this year, at The Old Truwman Brewery site. F Block, T4 15, Hanbury Street E1 6QRI sent in 3 of the series of photos I'd taken of the monks from the Tashi Llunpo Monastery, when they came to London earlier in the year. In this exhibition some work will be printed and hung in the space and some will be part of a continuous slide show in the

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Last week I was pleased to be giving a presentation about the connection between my art work and my practise as a Buddhist to Faith and Image, a group of people interested in art and belief at ST Mary's church in Woodford.I had been invited by Graham Dixon and he kindly put together a PowerPoint of my work with an introduction by himself including some great images of Buddhist caves near the

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Saturday morning was the start of the East London Printmakers exhibition Wonderland, at The Museum of Childhood in Bethnal Green info here. Katja and Jean and other artists I knew from our group shows had work in it and it is an impressive exhibition. Nicola Green and Zairo Zaldua had an installation called My Childhood Faith, incorporating faded old family photographs and boxes, giving a sense

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Yesterday I took my work down to the Changing Room Gallery for the Friends of the Earth exhibition. I am showing some photo collages called Windmills In My Mind, they are exploring the ideas about micro-electric generation. Part of my thinking is about how, in this case wind turbines, could look more fun interesting and colourful, if they were on ordinary homes and town buildings.I took photos

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I was in the Central library in Walthamstow for the artists books event with Laura yesterday. It was great to see Laura's collection of artists books, I added a few myself and we put out the collection on tables for people to browse through.We also had a good selection of materials for people if they wanted to try making a simple book themselves. Although we didn't get a huge amount of people

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This year I am trying to see some parts of the trail that I haven't had chance to look at before and one of them was the privet view where Michael T. Holland shows his photography and this year Virginia Cucchi and friends were showing Naturalist Evolution. The weather was hot and sunny so the outdoor gallery was safe on Michael's hedge. He was still putting up some work when I was there, a great

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Well the Art trail is definitely underway. I put up my exhibition in the window of Waterstones book shop on Friday with the help of my sister Pauline. I always find it daunting, the first part, starting to place the items in an exhibition, so it was great to have her skills.The staff in Waterstones were a real help too, finding us a background poster and fixing it up. I am happy with the

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The Art of Politics exhibition has opened at The Changing Room gallery.There is some great work on show, Martin Adams has several pieces that deal with the local political situation with wit and invention. His mixed media piece "Sweet Temptation" had edible sweet treats in a box,with piped lettering on the sweets including "Influence", "Power" and "Renumeration" As the text concluded "Get

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I went recently for a traditional seaside day out, starting at Leigh on Sea and walking along the sea front towards Southend. Interestingly for those of us who don't know, Leigh on Sea train station isn't next to the town, I always forget this sort of thing, that train stations can be a way out of towns. However the walk along the sea by all the boat yards was great and the nature reserve is

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I'm just starting with a bit of a season of exhibitions, the first one being part of The Art of Politics, at The Changing Room Gallery. I'm working on a piece called The Pound in Your Pocket, which is exploring the ideas of local currencies such as the Totnes Pound,details here. the Lewis Pound and the Brixton Pound.The idea of having local currencies is to benefit the local community by spending

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Tonight was the start of the build up to the 5th E17 Art Trail with the launch of the guide. It is a guide this year rather than a map as there are over 350 artists and local people showing work.The trail runs from the 5th till the 13th September, and I'm taking part in a number of events. I have an exhibition in Waterstones Selbourne walk, Walthamstow of my new Artists Books. Books I have been

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I have been lucky to see the monks from the Tashi Llumpo monastery at St Ethelbergha's and at Asia House where we had a day to study and have a chance to practice some of the spiritual offerings they make,including torma and butter sculpture, sand mandalas and block printing.The monks made a small peace sand mandala during the day and it was great to see that practise again, with the ritual

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The Hampton Court Flower Show was on last week and I was there again with my sister, trying out my new camera and enjoying the show. Generally Hampton Court Show feels more spacious than Chelsea Flower show, but this year Hampton Court seemed very busy, which was fine until I had my handy cart filled with bargain priced plants.The perfume and colour of the plants is what draws me time and time

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My painting," The Call of the Soul" above is on show at the annual Leytonstone Festival and Art trail which is running at the moment. I have a piece in the Waltham Forest Arts Club group show in the One Stop shop and was part of the E17 designers craft fair in the library at the weekend.In the One Stop shop,I really liked Martin Adam's piece ."Water lily" a lovely elegant and pure form. Shirley

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I just caught the last day of the exhibition, Visionaries at the Wallspace Gallery near Liverpool Street Station, which was great because it was a really good exhibition. I am always looking for artists who work with spiritual themes, and here was a real collection of different work.Three artists that I really like, sadly dead now, Albert Herbert and Norman Adams and Cecil Collins but lovely to

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It was the 5th Artists car boot fair recently in part of the Truman Brewery site down Brick Lane.I hadn't been for a couple of years and there were probably even more artists and people visiting this year. It was a really hot day which meant even covered in sun tan cream I couldn't stay to long, unfortunately.Richard Clegg had some amazing cacti sculptures in car parts, I really liked the idea,

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The Arts Club Summer Exhibition went well. There was a good selection of work exhibited, including sculpture, prints, photographs and paintings. Katja Rosenberg always has some great participatory art work, this year it was on the theme of heros. It was good to invigilate on a couple of days and interact with the visitors.Being in the park means that if the weather is bad, few people come along,

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I took my pieces of work down to the Changing Room Gallery for the Waltham Forest Arts group Summer Exhibition. As usual my work is very different from last years. I have been working on some 'wanted' posters, using examples of behaviour that goes against the law in some way, but using birds instead of humans.This is what I wrote about the work for the exhibition.In this piece I have explored

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I just caught the Gerhard Richter exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, I had been wanting to see his work for some time. In reproduction it has perhaps even more of an ambiguous sense something between photographic reproduction and painting.In his work from the sixties Gerhard Richter used black and white photographs from magazines for his paintings, which obscure identities and play

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Made it to Chelsea Flower show on Saturday early, before all the crowds came for the famous sell off. It was good to see the main show gardens easily and to be able to walk around the marquee without too much effort. As usual the sheer amount of plants and flowers always gives me a sense of restoration and pleasure.A lot of the gardens this year had a more cottage garden feel, with gorgeous

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The V&A recently held a day of rare Buddhist dances, I was able to see some of them and sense some of the power in the forms, particularly the Japanese Theater Noh. This piece was called "Kayoi Komachi" and was based on thestory of a wandering priest who encounters the ghost of a ninth century noblewoman who was one of the "Six Immortal Poets" Ono no Komachi. Because she had been a cruel lover

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We have a festival of Buddhist culture happening at the moment, a film festival at the Barbican is just starting, and I have been to a seminar on contemporary artists influenced by Buddhism. and part of a day of Buddhist dances.The V&A have been hosting some of the events and opening a new gallery of Buddhist sculpture, sponsored by the Robert H. N. Ho family foundation that broadly supports

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I added one of my images taken on the 22nd April for the Earth Mosaic a project that is gathering hundreds of thousands of photo images from around the world taken on the 22nd and is making a huge mosaic with them. The idea is to take a photo of the world around you and I took this one of the churchyard at the top of the road, with a few bluebells around the graves and Lime tree.I have also

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I've had a couple of images by Albert Herbert in my reference collection for some years, without knowing anything about him. Recently I have been looking him up and looking at some of his paintings online.I really respond to his work, which although has biblical themes generally, seems to have an openess and spiritual vibrancy that speaks of wider connections to spirit.The gallery England and co

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I decided to put some work into the Pastel Society open this year at the Mall Galleries and as it was a sunny day to wander into ST James park. Unfortunately they were dredging and doing work to the lake, which was fenced off. But the trees were coming into leaf and the cherry blossom particularily lovely.I was taking photos as I walked around, noticing all the flags around too, probably because

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One of Dan Hays Colorardo impressions series.I went along to the V&A last weekend for a symposium on new approaches to digital printmaking. This was in association with the University of the Arts, (Fade) The ARHC, and the Computer Arts Society.I wasn't sure what to expect, but I was following up my interests in digital work. There were a number of artists talking about their work and

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I just caught a small exhibition of Ib Geertsen's work in the Tea Building on Shoreditch High street. It was the bright colours on his paintings that I saw through the window that drew me inside for a better look. His work had a familiarity about it, though this apparantly is the first solo show of his work in London. But as he has been painting for over 70 years and his work and style has been

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There is an exhibition of Roni Horn's work at Tate Modern till 25th May, I was struck by her series of photographs of the Thames, that incorporated text as footnotes, thoughts, reflections and quotes about the river and water including things like, "The river is a drain" "Going into water is like going into yourself" " The opacity of the world dissapates in water"Her large glass sculptures were

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