My University course finished for the year before Easter. I’ve now completed the first half of ‘second year’, although in elapsed time it’s my third year of six because I’m…
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My aim is to create art that uplifts and inspires hopeful optimism. My processes incorporate illustration, crochet but especially the translucent and vivid medium of stained, fused and blown glass. Catalysts for my work are history, mythology and folklore.
My studio has been in Newcastle city centre for about 4 years. That was suddenly cut short by the building’s landlord. The management company and driving force behind the studio…
Julia Stephenson is the Head of Arts at the National Glass Centre in Sunderland, where our University course is based. Her talk gave us a fascinating (and often amusing) glimpse…
The Art Fund podcast ‘Art and Stuff’ for 21 January 2021, featured Sarah Stone (c. 1760 – 1844) an illustrator and painter. She specialised in natural history and scientific illustration….
Sofonisba Anguissola (1532-1625) was the court painter of Philip II of Spain. She was one of the first known female painters and achieved international recognition in her own lifetime during…
In 1993, Mildred Thompson worked as a guest artist in the Spruce Pine, North Carolina studio of glass artist Harvey Littleton. Her interview with him was published in in Art…
Rosalind Faram’s current work is wildly jolly, full of bright colour, broad brushstrokes, patterns and sexy chutspah. Faram’s talk on her creative life, in contrast, slowly revealed a long, often-dark,…
Huma Bhabha is a mixed media artist and self-taught sculptor. Bhabha was born in Pakistan in 1962. She grew up experiencing the rippled after-effects of partition, colonialism and alienation. Her…
The problem, in a word: time. The producers don’t allow enough of it. They deliberately set artificial, wildly inadequate deadlines for the work to create “drama”. It’s clearly a formula…
This essay investigates the relationship between the Art Nouveau (‘new art’) movement in 1890s fin-de-siècle Paris, and its revival in 1960s San Francisco. The 1960s are exemplified by Kelley Mouse…
Last September in that brief, enchanted interval between lockdowns I saw William and Evelyn De Morgan at the Laing Art Gallery in Newcastle. It was a pleasant surprise to learn…
The Creatives Lives talk this week was by the ‘issue-based’ photographer, Paul Wenham-Clarke. His work is beautiful, emotionally moving and seeks to address environmental and social concerns. Some of the…
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