In our last blog post we discussed using archives and museums to come to a more tangible understanding of your subject. With art in particular, it is popularly said that to capture the true essence of something you must draw … Continue reading
On one of the first warm days of the year we made the one and a half hour journey into London to visit the Victoria and Albert museum in the name of research. These days the word research mostly conjures … Continue reading
…..CONTINUED….. In the reek fatted air half an hour later the door opens and a voice swills the grease between their teeth and spits out sweetened breath. WOMAN’S VOICE I’m home Vasil-eesa and I’m very hungry. I hope you’ve cooked … Continue reading
I realised a while ago that over the year we have been doing this blog you have seen a lot of Merle’s artwork. I’ve always encouraged her to share her pictures and have experienced the same breathless elation at the … Continue reading
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Attempting to be creative in a day when we are pressurised to get onto the property ladder, take on a mortgage and struggle to pay back student debts along with the regular bills, is difficult and often demoralising. It’s easy … Continue reading
“The waves awoke her in the limpid hours and churned her butter thoughts to soft peaks.” Abra Hunt from The Waves, the Waves. For as long as Abra and I have had this project in mind I have had its … Continue reading
With a full nine weeks between Abra’s last post and my sitting down to write the next I began, with a certain foreseeable logic, to think about inspiration, or rather, the lack of it in this case. Of course, … Continue reading
While I was studying illustration at university it seemed imperative to find a Style…yep, with a big ol’ capital S. Those who had one felt they had reached the Holy Grail and were to be envied, while those who didn’t … Continue reading
A style of painting and literature in which fantastic or imaginary and often unsettling images or events are depicted in a sharply detailed, realistic manner. As with all things, the dictionary succeeds in being concise and matter of fact when asked for the definition of Magic Realism. On this instance I was relieved to find just two neat lines on the subject when … Continue reading
Do you know the feeling when you read something that is just so achingly beautiful that your heart swells to fill your whole chest? It’s the feeling I get when I read the undulating lines of Dylan Thomas’ play Under … Continue reading
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