Wednesday 31 August 2016

matt mcdermott



matt mcdermott's lovely treatment of rilke's gravity's law

Tuesday 30 August 2016

maximo laura



get some colour in your life this morning and check out the tapestries of maximo laura. i'm not a stranger to a bit of tapestry but these are genuinely dazzling.

Monday 29 August 2016

graham dunning



make magazine comes up with the goods yet again with graham dunning's manual techno. i love things i just couldn't do if i had all the resources and time i could wish for and this is one of those. proper sound art!!

Friday 26 August 2016

Thursday 25 August 2016

lee albert hill


back to paint and canvas. i'm not quite sure how lee albert hill arrives at his images but it's a geometric abstraction that i like

Tuesday 23 August 2016

susan hotchkiss


i like an abstract painting. of that's there's no doubt. always have, always will. not that i've got anything against representative painting tho it took me a long while to get into and appreciate it. just that  abstract imagery caught me young and i've been looking at it and making it ever since.

and susan hotchkiss captures everything that i like. colour, composition, stretching the form. i can't believe i haven't come across her before or that this work isn't a familiar name. so i'll nail my colours to the mast on this one. it's about material. it's about craft, it's about gender.

if these were made of paint rather than fibre; if these were fine art rather than technique associated with craft; if these had been done by a man i can't help but feel they'd be higher profile.

and i'm loving the skills i'm seeing in these

Monday 22 August 2016

sarah gillespie


came across sarah gillespie by random the other day. these rpints and drawings are just dazzling. if you do one thing this week take some time out and browse thru these images if, in any way, they're up your street.

Friday 19 August 2016

peter davis


i've painted a couple of pictures trying to capture what it's like living or growing up on an island but not even come close to peter davis. these are sublime images. he;s currently exhibiting in the bonhoga gallery in shetland.

Thursday 18 August 2016

kafka



i have fond memories of watching this away back in the day. haven't watched it since and entirely forgot steven soderberg directed it. i must watch it gain. so here it is.

Tuesday 16 August 2016

sarah gillespie


some really beautiful prints of invertebrates from sarah gillespie. landscapes are equally well executed. get a cup of tea and have a proper browse....

Monday 15 August 2016

nigel bird


loving this from nigel bird. you just can't go wrong with paper and ink!

Friday 12 August 2016

amelia langford


and then you come across someone you have to think would be compulsively drawing no matter what. am loving the work of amelia langford, esp the way she transitions from black and white to colour use

Thursday 11 August 2016

julia gukova


back in the day there used to be a polish movie poster shop i liked to visit, it's gone now but what i remember about it was that the images were so different from what i was used to. so, looking at what's on here and seeing as i'm rereading cathrynne valente's excellent deathless, here i am dipping a toe into russian illustration via julia gukova. what's interesting is how themes are developed - this one's from the wizard of oz. definitely check out her take on alice in wonderland

Wednesday 10 August 2016

thomas muller


it's always unwise to assume what you're doing isn't being done by someone else. i'm a big fan of line drawing and loving thomas muller's work (be awae if you're looking for it - there is a german footballer of the same name).  it's great to see what someone else does with a similar technique.

Monday 8 August 2016

linoryjki - inks



not all inks are the same. here's a handy wee intro to inks - i'm really taken with linoryjki so check out the others in the series if you like this one. good chance to practice polish!

Friday 5 August 2016

the antipodes project



things i'm almost bound to like. collaborative work - check. nutty drawing project - absolutely! chwck out detail of these via juxtapoz

Wednesday 3 August 2016

mona robles


there's always going to be a place for a godzilla interpretation in my house so here's mona robles with godzilla vs king ghidorah. she does all manner of stuff and i'm particularly taken, in these days of pokemon go, of her take on those - if only there was a conversion option in the game!

Monday 1 August 2016

plaster of paris printing



in the not too distant future the nights'll be drawing in and it'll be time to get the printing tools out. i've got some pop lying about after a tiling project and came across this - an unusual printing project i think i'll have a go at