Canvas Cam!

To encourage me to paint at regular times and hours after college, I am thinking of installing a CANVAS CAM where people can see streaming video of me working. I think this is a good idea both for people who want to see how art is made and to get me actually making stuff.. at the moment this is about all you'll see...

So I need to find out and get all the technical gubbins together, so that I can get the ball rolling. As far as I can Google I've only heard of one other artist who has a canvas-cam- in the US - no surprise there, and there's an artist in Cornwall who has a mention of it on their website but no link. It would be great to be the first UK artist to have live painting broadcast all over the world!

Dotty About Squares!

I love patterns involving spots, dots and circles.

Last term (ie before Easter and after Christmas) I did a lot of work involving repetitions of spots in spaces divided off into squares and rectangles. This was basically a continuation of an idea I had in the first year when I covered the painting corridor in a grid made of red spots and lines. I then collaged the red paper that was left with holes in it onto a black and blue canvas. Then, at home, I painted a board to look like layers of surfaces with holes in. Now I have masses of
canvases that have layers of colour with holes in!!

Colour and the Substance of Shape

My work at the moment has been influenced by my surroundings. One artist described a recent painting as a fractured distorted version of reality where everything seemed to be collapsing on itself.




















I think that's quite an accurate interpretation.

I use ideas from cubism, pop art, and German expressionism. The blues and turquoises are very Hockney-esque I think, but instead of representing water they are supposed to represent the sky blotted out by window frames and becoming caged off or fragmented. Earlier versions of this met with the criticsm that the window motif was too obvious: so I instead concentrated on the light that would pour through and get scattered on the floors, walls and objects.

Now I am taking similar arrangements of shapes and colours and applying them to a different aspect ration, a longer thinner canvas which is more like a decorative panel...

Catching Up!!

Well. I've only just remembered my login details. Since Christmas I've been trying to update this, trying to get my details from Blogger admin and going round in circles. But it just popped into my mind finally what it was! Hardly surprising given all the stress I'm feeling about the Degree Show, Artists Statements and what the hell I'm going to do when this degree is all over...

On the other hand.. I do find blogs irritating. Why do people feel all the useless "knowledge" they've amassed is worth sharing? Unlike the self-proclaimed philosophers, conspiracy theorists, god-botherers and general purpose nutters I actually am doing this for a perfectly good reason - namely that I want to do an online art course and this is the only way the tutors are going to be able to see my sketchbook. I certainly hope some poor misguided fool isn't going to use this as a reference guide, it seems every time you Google a term these days 90% of what you get is via some dodgy blog!