On the brink of 3.3 – final unit of the degree

I began this expedition in 2018 as a way of squaring my art circle which had begun in 1967 and died an ignominious death in 1968 due to massive cultural dislocation. Yorkshire was barely out of the 1950s while Brighton was spaced out and dropped out and jangling through its hippie flower-power summer of luuuurve phase. We had more hair than skirt length, everyone slept on other people’s floors, nothing had a lock on it, and meals seemed to come from nowhere. Not surprisingly, my brain fell over and refused to function so I went back to Yorkshire, straightened myself … Continue reading On the brink of 3.3 – final unit of the degree

Brief for Project 10, the final unit of 3.2

Completing Project 10. I’ve been encouraged to trust my instincts as to direction and I’ve experienced this as very supportive, given my more evolutionary than planned way of working. The meaning of ‘project plan’ only became clear at a recent … Continue reading Brief for Project 10, the final unit of 3.2

Project 10 assembly line

The experiential catalogue Let’s call this a sketch pad, a rough diagram, a list, a mental assemblage of elements, an aid to unconscious conjecture about the story I’ve told in this unit and that teeters on the edge of the 3.3 cliffhanger. Fasten your seatbelts. I’ve used digitally altered photography as reference material for paintings Written ‘tombstone’ material (no more than 75 words as per tradition) for finished work I have animated worm dads, scared cats, and novice spiders on their first dangle thread in Procreate and put them in a wild space I have augmented many paintings with digital … Continue reading Project 10 assembly line