Blog Post 1

This week I’ve completely redesigned this website. I just wasn’t happy with it because the work it showed wasn’t the work I’m making now so I wanted to take back control and make it look how I had imagined it could do. I also thought it was about time I started a blog so here we are.

Last week I went on a course at the St Ives School of Painting called ‘Paths to Abstraction’; it was very interesting and showed us different ways of making one’s work less representational. Since I started the MA in 2018 I’ve got used to reading around everything that I do, so I’ve looked at ‘Search for the Real’ by Hans Hofmann, ‘Peter Lanyon’ by Andrew Causey, and ‘Ben Nicolson: drawings and painted reliefs’ by Peter Khoroche. I really liked the drawings in the Ben Nicolson book, I had no idea that he was such a brilliant draughtsman but what I liked was that he made the view he was drawing his own, it wasn’t just a representational drawing, it had a life of its own, containing him as well. I found the book engrossing to read as it described the development of his career and artwork and how this intertwined with his family life.