Opening night for this summer’s exhibition was a great success and I saw many familiar and new faces. I had some lovely comments regarding my work which is always a great motivator to keep on going. By day 4, 7 paintings had been sold and a commission taken so I could not be more…
The next exhibition will be here in France during the summer. It will be at the same venue as last summer, Castillionnes, Nr Bergerac here in France. It will run from 15th August to 25th August. I’ll be focussing more on floral subjects and the exhibition will include some sculptures as well as monochromatic works. …
Demonstrating string work. This was my half strawberry now finished and you can see in the gallery here. Conversing in front of Dream of Beans. Waiting for the Maire’s speech. Preparing for opening night.
I came across these paper bird sculptures and was totally amazed. We are not talking origami here. The Colombian artist has created paper sculptures of more than 100 species, and they are startlingly realistic. It’s quite mind blowing that these are made out of simple colored paper. You can find more amazing paper sculptures by…
I discovered this artist a while back and often refer back to her paintings. The simple reason is that as far as injecting light into a still life, these are some of the best I’ve seen. Because I work mainly on textures, ie string and fabric, it is very difficult to achieve this kind of…
I am currently working on a tree lichen series of works constructed in polymer clay. I am constantly looking for inspiration on how other artists produce 3 dimensional works on canvas and came across the amazing work of Amanda Smith. Amanda Smith’s work is comprised of hand-built and slip-cast clay, which is then painted with…
Kozo, the bark of a Japanese mulberry tree, is the main substance of these mixed media sculptures and installations. For thousands of years this bark has been harvested annually (the tree is cut leaving a base that grows back quickly), and made into an extremely strong and beautiful paper. The natural beauty of the white…
The paper sculptures of Peter Gentenaar are really quite incredible. He makes all his own paper and this is then re-inforced with thin bamboo ribs which makes it strong. The forms are actually caused by the drying and shrinking in unison. It is not pre-determined at the beginning of sculpting. This makes these sculptures even…