It's been a long time since a city has inspired me as much as Berlin. Amsterdam was absolutely fantastic - there was so much to see. Our art-orientated sightseeing ranged from seeing traditional artwork at the Van Gogh Museum to more contemporary works at the Stedelijk, Amsterdam's equivalent of New York's Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). However with Berlin, … Continue reading Beautiful Berlin
"I think that the very great artists were not trying to express themselves.They were trying to trap the fact, because after all, artists are obsessed by life and by certain things that obsess them that they want to record. And they've tried to find systems and construct the cages in which these things can be … Continue reading Creative Outlets
Sometimes it's really refreshing to step away from all the thinking and the books and just work with a material. I had these foam polystyrene pieces (the kind you put in packing boxes) that I decided to paper-mache into limb-like forms. I didn't really have a plan or know what I was doing, I just wanted … Continue reading Studio Fun
'Sail Away' So that is my piece finally done for the auction. With all the other preparation I've put into this I hadn't actually had much time to think about what I was going to submit. I always find whenever I try and make art for a purpose, it adds a different kind of pressure … Continue reading Auction Piece
