Other Art works A VISUAL RECAP

Various images of work from my recent collaboration with the world land trust  above a collograph  'shadowboxing ' for Hare exhibition 

My studio art work  University Campus  Suffolk
a development of ideas based on the effects of deforestation 

Linocut 'The old Buck'

Watercolour 'Dancing Hares'

Linocuts and collograph drying in the UCS print room 

 Sketches I worked on for above exhibition of work for WLT

Work from past I am interested in developing work from this pastel 

Working in the printroom UCS an etching based on Hares incase
The collograph  dosn't  workout 

Exploration of ideas for the constestations of deforestation 

ART WORK as part of Birds and Bees Exhibition

         

Sunday 31st of March  Images from the Birds and Bees WLT exhibition










                         

Etching and Ink Bee work created as
part of my WLT work for Exhibition 

                Reflecting on my past works over the last Two months  
                 with the  World Land Trust.

Etching  and ink part of  image of song thrush 

Reduction Linocut Flight of the Bumble Bee

Compleated work for deadline!!

                              COMPLEATION OF WORK  in reponse to exhibition themes 

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                  Having worked towards meeting my deadline for the Next World Land Trust Exhibition 

                  

  WHAT IT ENTAILED THIS WEEK .................................................

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1.  THE COLLOGRAPH.......Focussing on a final piece of work  based on the image of HARES  was proving frustreating at the begining of this week as i was trying to work within a time management schedule i felt i had prepared enough i advance as the collagraph was finished two weeks ago the problem this week arose when the white ink still had not dried sufficently for the next ink layer. On monday this was evident as i incorporated the second ink ........ it still neede a few extra days to dry
2. WEDENSDAY I attempted again to add the second ink with disapointing results  I had coverd my opptions last week when I did a one layer ink collograph which came out well so I have decided to go with this work as a potential gallery piece it also has helped me to achieve another of my Proposal aims . 
3. REFLECTION....................................................AIMS of PROPOSAL being met
4. I have produced a REDUCTION LINOCUT
                                  ETCHING and INK
5.                                WATERCOLOUR 
6.                                LINOCUT
7.                                 COLLOGRAPH these works were part of my proposal with the trust to produce art in response to their Exhibition Themes so i have acheived the results i intended to acheive.
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9. Works compleated images below......................................
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ART TO BE FINISHED FOR FRIDAY 22nd March

Meeting a deadline............................March 18th

I have been working on meeting my deadline for the WLT next exhibition  for the end of March begining of April, Having compleated two works in response to the next theme HARES that tye in with the up and coming Spring Easter holidays : one LINOCUT

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I had been working on a COLLAGRAPH  image of hares .....But unfortunately im disappointed with the out comes and final results.......when in UCS today and working in the print room finalising the collagraph and adding the final colour I am not happy with it.... I went on to work on an Etching based on some drawings from my sketch book I was able to produce 4 images....... so hoping they will dry in time for friday> I have framed the other two works so they are now compleat.

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MEETING Kelly .............................. I had a discussion with Kelly on thursday 14th march I will soon meet up with John to talk about the Landscape and my work dealing with Deforestation issues .......

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Finishing Fight for the forest a Book based on the story of Chico Mendes an the struggle of the indigenous people in Brazil to stop deforestation and protect the livelyhood of the Rubber Tappers and the Brasil nut trees......................................DID YOU KNOW?....................that due to the biodiversity of the Brazilian Rainforest it is the only place in the world where Brazil nuts can grow!!???..................a number of years ago an entreprenuer tried to grow nuts on a plantation...the trees grew well they flowered but no nuts were produced.... the facts are not compleatly understood how they are pollinated  but it seems to depend on a combination of  certain bees and orchids that are only found in the Brazilian Rainforest...ref (latin america bereau research action ) Ltd, 1989 translated by Chris Whitehouse add material Tony Gross ed by Duncan Martin. Book Fight For The Forest. Chico Mendes in his own words .

 Reflecting on my collaberation and proposal with the WLT................ 

1. At the end of this week I will Hand in my final work on Hares in response to the new theme HARES I am confident this will happen.
2. I was hoping to have produced a collograph if on Weds this week the last cahnce for me to produce a colagraph dosnt work it will be one medium that i wanted to be realised that wont happen 
3. I will take into show Kelly on friday all the Hare images so she can discuss which ones will be part of the April Exhibition.

PEER DISCUSSIONS

REFLECTING ON TODAYS PEER GROUP DISCUSSION

Part of my professional studio practice is to reflect on aspects of how my collaboration is developing 

today i got chance to discuss how my collaberation is going 

I had atutorial with Robin and we did discused the need for me to incorporate more contextualising within my practice ... this is an area i mentioned in my last blog...... 

CONTEXTUALISING .. looking at the aspects of this i have reserched articles on the internet emphasising the effects of deforestation on the indigenous people and the wildlife in past blogs i have pointed out my research also i have pasted links to musicians and song lyrics that deal with these issues in an earlier blog these  i have used to influence prilimary sketches and ideas in my studio space

Robin noted a need for me to focus on artists  and mentioned Gary Humes work particularly the aspects of colour and Donald Judds work particularly on hare drawings i also am influenced by Kathe Kollwitz and leon Golub who deal with social issues and i find Anselm Kiefers highly textuerd work could play a part in relation to texture which i am particularly drawn to in my work 

As part of my proposal with WLT is to create a landscape inspired painting i have looked at the works of David Hockney and Cezanne I find their use of colour in particular stimulating 

TODAY i received an email from Kelly about meeting John Burton who is the CEO at WLT this will be to discuss the ideas of what type of land scape i will create for the commission I hope to chat about Johns experiences of meeting the indigenous people and hope i can create a work in response to our chat.

 PEER GROUPS I spoke with Gillian today and mentioned my concern as to if my work with the trust was a Proper collaboration I have struggled or wrestled with these thoughts i worked hard to find a collaboration and am a little concerned that it is border line in this context Gillian made some helpful points that my art is being used as a tool to aid financial support to the trust if art sells i am producing work i response to the themes and the world land trust is allowing me to make work that will be in the gallery that is a response to the effects of deforestation this includes the aspects of social issues they have given me a student gallery spot that i can hang work up i  in response to their themes and aspects of the effects of deforestation. 

Talking about my project with Anna and Karen i got positive feed back about how i was incorporating the aspects of deforestation effects i was also able to chat about chico Mendes and his contestation of struggle in brazil as a leader of the workers union for the rubber tappers in the 1980s.

Lastly I have made spider grams to help me consentrate my ideas about how i could make a piece of art in response to CHICO MENDES plight in brazil.

Reflecting on progress

                                            REFLECTION ON WORK SO FAR .....


Looking back over the last week and my involvment in the WLT i have had the opportunity of meeting with
Kelly each tuesday for a chat about how my involvement with the trust is going.

COMMUNICATION with Trust.

1. Each week we have a chat to discuss how my role in the Gallery is going, this has been positive and Kelly has been supportive i supervising me in my invigallating role 
2. I have been able to do research on the topic of social issues and kelly is supportive in my ideas about producing issues on the aspects of deforestation within my time at WLT the final outcomes will be Exhibited in the Student spot allocated to me whilst im at the trust I will also see John Burton soon 
3. Im aware that i hadnt fully understood the need to have the recent work Birds and Bees in at the begining of the week as the exhibition is opening SO am prepared in advance for my work on Hares to be ready well before new exhibition opens.
4. Also I can email Kelly at any time but seeing her each week seems sufficient at the moment .
5. May be a possibility of getting involved with setting up next exhibition good for experience! 

AM I FULLFILLING MY ROLE with the trust. 

1. I have consistantly worked at the Gallery evey tuesday and have fullfilled my role invigalating
2. I have been producing work in conjunction with Exhibiton themes
3. My student spot has details of my artist statement and the work I have produced so far
4. I am learning skills to keep up to deadlines and time managing working on new images that fit in with the trusts themes 
5. I am researching ideas and looking at the issues that deforestation has on the indigenous peoples and their enviroment iam doing this via stories of contestation on the internet also song lyrics by Bruce Cockburn and band Midnight Oil who look at deforestation issues- these areas looking at protest and issues i have been producing work in my student space at college . 
6. NEED to do more research on contextualising my work to look at artists IMPORTANT to work on this area as it is lacking in contextualising my work at present .  

Exhibition Theme 'Hares'

   WORKING ON THEME for WLT Gallery for next month.......MARCH /APRIL

   As discussed in a previous  blogg i am now working on the theme of Hares for the next exhibition 

 i have spent time researching using  secondary source images also a helpful website ......http://www.countrysideinfo.co.uk/devon_bap/hare.htm this gives details of the enviroment that hares live in .

continued work on a collograph and lino cut ..........Time Management...

Having compleatd the collograph a final coat of varnish has been added to prepare the work for print (three Coats in all) On Monday 11th i will do a number of white on white prints at UCS 

also using my sketch book resource of images I have worked on producing a lino cut of a Hare at the moment this is a back up incase the collagraph fails !!! as time is nearing for new WORLD LAND TRUST exhibition and ...... dead lines!!

THE LINOCUT is of the hares head .....I am finding my images of hares are quite carahcature they evoke the essence of HARE!! and have a Humour about them i seem to emphasis features such as form shape which focusses on the eyes ears and body movement  i hope they go down ok.

Images here.......

MONDAY UCS PRINTING UP .......................

I spent time today printing up the images of the collograph 

1. four images white ink on white paper (these i have had to do early as they need to dry for the week before i add  the next colour that blends in with the dried white. 
2. four black ink  images i wanted to do these to see what the image will look like when printed off. feel confident that white ink will turn out well......................
3. Also did a couple of white on white prints from linocut as an experiment 
4. Now images are inked up will leave to dry till next week 

images.................................

   Tuesday 12th March 

    Gallery invigilating at World Land Trust.....

Taking my images in to show Kelly how I am getting on with the next exhibitions theme she was happy with the progress and about how i had captured the essence of hare rather.

Also discussed how i felt more confident this week in dealing with the public when it came to transactions using the electronic card holder and writing out invoices there are two main invoice books one for larger sales of Art work the other for cards books small sale items . today again i was involved with the public discussing the exhibition and selling smaller items of the goods Also got talking to an elderly gentleman about a book on Moths that he has loaned to WLT

A discussion with Kelly............................

In ten days time the exhibition at present will be coming to an end i discussed with kelly if there was a chance for me to get involved so as to see how the Gallery functions and the process of an ending exhibition and a New one commencing begins due to working on the tuesday it looks like there is a good chance of getting involved with this side of gallery experience so i feel this will be advantagous
to join in.
SOON i will be given the opportunity to speak with JOHN who is the head of WLT about how he would envisage the Landscape work that i am doing as a commission for next month.....

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RESEARCH.......
Today also i have continued to research  and make notes on Chico Mendes a brazilian whos cause was to use  peaceful forms of resistance and  protest  for the rights of the indigenous peoples in the brazilian rain forest and also to protect the forests from further destruction, His dream was ...to see the entire forest conserved as conservation guaranteed  the future of all people  and the ecosystem 
CHICO THE WORKER 
CHICO THE ECOLOGIST
CHICO THE PACIFIST
He became the trade union leader  and received the GLOBAL prize from the united nations. 

image of chico







DRAWINGS i am working also on a drawing of Chico as part of my visual practice. 

Ideas for Images

March 6th....

The blog journey continues..........................................................

Studio at ucs 

catching up now with the last couple of days though i want to put images of my work up my camera has given up the ghost .....awaiting a new one coming soon  kindly bought by my parents an early birthday present!!....

Experimenting 

IMAGES HERE..

Song thrush Etching 

Sculptured  Hands 

Image photoshop Student protests London 2013

it has been a week of twists and turns i was in college on monday working on an image based on the effects of displacement of indigenous people in rainforests i worked with charcoal and red pastel again the figure at the fore and creeping red insiduosly driving out life form..........

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Tuesday 5th My invigalating spot at the World Land Trust Gallery Halesworth. I spoke again to Kelly who I communicate with about issues Kelly mentioned my meeting up with John Burton the CEO of WLT as he has frirst hand experience of dealing with indigenous people groups this may happen in the next few weeks 
Also Kelly mentioned about getting together to discuss the land trust image inspired by land scapes. im not sure at the moment what mediums i will be working in . 
As i invigilated i got to speak to a customer about my work and studying she showed an interest in my work particularly the mixed media abstract that seems to attract peoples attention also up in the student spot is my Song thrush Bee and a small abstract WHEN i get my new camera i will show you all!!! 
Over the week end I worked on more sketches for images of Hares Im now working  a collagraph of 
a pair of Hares in motion  i used card,sand paper, pva textured wall paper i have documented these to up load images SOON!  


IMAGES HERE.......

Experimenting with collagraph

I didnt feel well yesterday which left me not able to go to UCS today but I was able to use my time to work on more images of Hares I need to have these works done by 18th ish of march in time for the next WLT exhibition (last week in MARCH ) thinking ahead as to when images need to be ready by  having deadlines to work to has helped me to focus and time manage ,
THE Collagraph i neeed to print up on monday at UCS so that will give it ten days to compleatly dry before it is framed in time for the HARE exhibition. 
AS i was saying today i worked on a water colour image of two hares i based these on sketches I had worked on from secondary source photo images of hares (see Sketch books)  




IMAGES 

Song Thrush Etching 

REFLECTING on my proposal of work... how am I doing?.........

MEDIUMS USED SO FAR.............

Bumble Bee Etching 

1. Etchings and Ink pen of Song Thrush and Bee hung in the world land trust Gallery for the February exhibition Student Wall spot.
2. Reduction Linocut abstract of Flight of the bumble bee.(exhibited as above).

MEDIUMS WORKING ON ..............................

1. Collograph of hares to be finished for Hare exhibition at the WLT.
2. Watercolour of hares ready for future March Hare exhibition at the WLT.
3. Idea to work on a detailed drawing of a Hare for above exhibition

Thinking ahead in ten days working on a landscape inspired image for WLT

ALSO  Continued Research of the effects of deforestation on the indiginus people

STILL reading Fight For the forest......

Last friday Kelly Chatted with me about my Prezie Presentation notes i need to make and alter......

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1. ADJUSTMENTS to prezie Spelling s COLOMBIA
2. WLT based in Halesworth since 1989
3. WLT work in Central Asia, Africa,South America I need to drop (etc) in the proposal
4. Kelly suggested i look up Bethan Jones on WLT web page
5. I can lift and copy the WLT map on to my blog spot
6. World Land Trust are adding me to their Artist Web

www.world land trust

The Brazil nut tree

Did you know that .............
 the Brazil nut tree can only produce nuts in Brazil....
The tree needs a certain type of bee and a certain type of Orchid for its flower to pollinate and produce the Brazil nut
The Bee and Orchid can only be found in Brazil.
When an area of Brazilian Rainforest is deforested it is illegal 
To burn or cut down the  Brazil nut tree yet ironically when all the forest around the tree is destroyed, within a year or so the Brazil nut tree will also die..... the soil is so poor that the tree needs sustenance from other trees plants fauna and wild life to survive... again we are reminded of the futility of man and his disregard and lack of respect for the planet and  nature. I'm reminded of a quote linked to Frans Krajberg.... 'The forest came before civilization and the desert after'.   Yvonnesartroomblogspot.com

Researching Chico Mendes

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today i went into invigalate in the Trusts Gallery and was able to chat with members of the public about this months Theme Birds and Bees i have enjoyed my experience of this post i can also do studiowork as part of being in the gallery. today i read a chapter of a recommended book on the Threat of deforestation title is FIGHT FOR THE FOREST it is a true story of CHICO MENDES courage to stand up against powers of expolitation  in Brazils Rubber Tree plantations. this fits in well with the aspect of my Proposal that looks at the effects of deforestation on the local people groups ........................... 

Quotes for inspiration

                          REFLECTION ...........thoughts .............................
                                         
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I LIKE THE QUOTE by Camus...................

                                 Dont walk in front of me i may not follow 
                                Dont walk behind me i may not lead .. ..just..........
                                Walk beside me and be my friend. (this is slightly paraphrased )                   
                           
                 

Reduction Lino Cut similar to one put in student spot at WLT

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Studio practice focusing on things to consider

Sketches based on Bruce Cockburn  Song...............

                                            STUDIO PRACTICE....................

Thursday 28th...................................

Thursday ..there was a talk today with Hannah about our on going Collaboration and how to document it .....................Unfortunatley i never got to it  but spoke to Karen and LJ about it to find out what i had missed Its about keeping up to date documentation of the journey of the PP Collaboration. this includes

1. KEEPING A DIARY Style BLOG of
2. DOCUMENTATION everyting peer group reviews -discusion, quotes, research,song lyrics,images, videos etc.....what inspires your work Books
3. REFLECTING on how its going changes made or needed
4. QUESTIONING progress and development
5. CONTEXTUALISING process and ARTISTS who inspire and inform this development
6. WHAT FINAL OUTCOMES will be.

At present im working towards Outcomes within the proposal made 

Feb/march Exhibition

1. Producing work in response to themes 
2. Birds and Bees MARCH i have produced etching of Song thrush and a bee also abstract Flight of the bumble bee
3. Hares to be made yet a collagraph and drawings
4. A landscape inspired painting MIXED MEDIA
5. Works depicting the effects of deforestation on indiginus peoples  UNsure of mediums bur like leon Golubs work that depicts social struggles and protest

                                     
REFLECTING on an image i am working on that is based ao a Bruce Cockburn song .....If a tree falls.............and USING charcoal as a symbol for the trees and red pastle i chatted with LJ who suggested the use of red ocre or sienna as they signified soil and are derived from the soil so i thought this was quite apt  ALSO disscussed reasons why i am drawn to do work on struggles and plights of people............. POWER STRUGGLE ........................to be continued

Sketch based on effects of displacement