Sunday, 21 October 2012

THE WALKER ART GALLERY LIVERPOOL






 We visited the Walker Art Gallery as part of our studies on the theme of grids layers and reflections, and to see the entries in to the John Moores painting prize .
The first gallery was this one pictured which I personally found very bautifull having studied interior design for three years there was a great calm about this room.






We then ventured in to the swinging sixties and seventies which I remember well as my party years and we looked at the fashions from that era my friend Liz and I laughed at some of the stuff we dared set foot out the door wearing ABBA style. 






 After a coffee which we needed after the long walk from the coach we proceeded up the staircase(sounds like inspector Morse),to take in the brilliant and not so brilliant artworks there for all to view for free.  We had previously had a talk by Richard about all the art  that there is to see for free in the North West. and he showed us some slides ,some of which were in this exhibition, I particularly liked some of them pictured here.





















Sunday, 14 October 2012

DOLPHINHOLME HOUSE FARM (residential trip)

On the way to the yert
"YERT" I had never heard of one of those before and was curious to find out what it was like inside, surly it had to be cosy and warm seeing as there was wind and  rain outside.
Alas there is a lovely black iron log stove with a lovely pile off logs to get warm, once we got it going that is.  The artistic juices just werent flowing at this point,  I always work well under pressure but stiff with cold ha! Though I have to say this is the perfect place to visit for a while and draw and paint in solitude away from it all, at one with nature.

My friend Liz and I got the fire going for the young ones and then we went out on a field trip to collect interesting bits of nature that could possibly be worked with to create a good design.   Looking back now the whole experience was made more interesting by the awfull weather and  I have found myself telling friends and family about it.
                                   
HOME FOR THE DAY


PLANT PHOTOGRAPHS

GRIDS & LAYERS



I will work with this image







Ihad a piercing do you like it folks ?

This shot fits in with my theme of anguish as it reminds me of cabin fever!

Gettin wood fothe fire!
Can I move in ?



I changed the images on my computor to look like this






Iam pleased with the out come of these prints

We were still on the rotations at the time and I was not sure about my pathway .  Iwas in the textiles group with Danniele and we did some experiments with different techniques with dye and some drawing of plants and leaves,