A pair of tiny black books, part of my collaborative book project with Suzie Ross. I sat in the sun on a wall by a river with Suzie today, and drew and talked about our project. Very excited to pick these books up from her today, together with some others for me to keep working […]
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bottle tops and cardboard tubes
I’m showing you some prints I’ve made today in a joy-filled online session that I participated in this morning – with the community arts group that I help to run (https://gwendraethartslab.com/). We worked with things from our rubbish bins – things like bottle tops and cardboard tubes, taking me back to the joy of being […]
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studio workbench
works in progress on the bench – carrying on with watercolours, for my collaborative work with Suzie Ross – text transcribed from the small joys that I collected a few weeks ago from friends a very lovely and simple one: “collecting blackberries this morning from a bridleway where I spotted a ripe patch yesterday” the […]
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watercolour
Working with watercolours today, as part of collaborative project with local artist Suzie Ross (@suzieross007 on instagram). Memory, landscape, connection. Struggling with the colour palette, working on top of Suzie’s colours. Its so interesting, working with another person, they don’t do what you’d do; so responding is always stepping into the unknown.
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joseph beuys (I)
This will be the first of a number of posts about Joseph Beuys. Because he is a creative hero, and because I am writing about him in an essay, and I want to share the good bits here – as and when I write them. A shaman alchemist artist; an artist of transformation, generosity, pedagogy, […]
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desk top landscape
Desk top landscape. Gleanings from today’s readings: Arte Útil : Useful art / Art as a Tool Artists = instigators A spiritually necessary art.
A short video that is influenced by talking with some amazing people in the ‘Akimbo’ creatives workshop, including artist Jamuna Barry – and some writing and images that she made, about the ways in which trees and fungi help one another, or otherwise. Silently, and underground. Here is a link to Jamuna’s blog post about […]
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shipping joy
An outline business plan? What would that be like? Why do I feel so happy?
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a small book
This post is about a small book that I’ve made about being a person – its to start out my journey at this, my new website and blog address.
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