A little bit of Drawing

And a little bit of print

A window into my studio

Here are a couple of recent pages from my Visual Diary

Here is our current year two BCA Visual Arts Students…HOW LOVELY!

…….this is Sadie with her cat Knoxie, (Latin for black…or is it Night?)

Hi,
currently I am Year Two Leader for the Bachelor of Visual Arts at the Faculty of Creative Arts, Manukau Institute of Technology.

This image shows a brooch I made in our exciting Jewellery dept, I am not a jeweller, but there is some great stuff you can experiment with and I think it is a little like 3D drawing.

Artist Statement: 

In my practice I like the idea of breaking down barriers between disciplines, drawing seems to have less rules than any other area of art making.  This promotes situations where you can present work across disciplines, dipping in and out of media and processes, grabbing anything at hand or whatever presents itself that is most apt or useful to your particular idea or area of investigation.

I like to think of the range of materials and methodology as hugely varied, unlimited and boundless. Planning paintings usually involves manipulating lots of found stuff and processes that are probably not logical.

Making is a direct response to an idea or image, it can emerge from a collection of images overlaid on my studio wall, of a photograph of the clutter on my desk / kitchen bench / laundry shelves or a display in an Opportunity Shop window.

It is interesting to note that often something is lost in the translation of the immediacy of the drawing into a more finished painting. I am used to this outcome now and have different expectations as a result.

I have two kids……………………. this is Bede &….