Don't Hesitate

"JUST DON'T HESITATE TO EXAGGERATE COLOR AND LIGHT. DON'T WORRY ABOUT TELLING LIES. THE MOST TIRESOME PICTURES ARE THE STUPIDLY TRUTHFUL ONES" - WM MERRITT CHASE

Life Drawing at Milgi, City Rd. (23/01/12)

After a year-long hiatus from life drawing classes, my interest in form and figure returns.
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Egon Schiele, 'Nu Assis' (1910)
I am continually fixated with Schiele's bold, linear style. It somehow retains such sensitivity.


Five minute warm-up. Pencil.


Ten/fifteen minute study. Pencil.

A final ten minute study. Pencil.

(N.B.: Aplogies for the less-than-great image quality.)

Cardiff School of Art, First year 'rotations' (2011/12)

Works within the Fine Art specialisms of Sculpture, Printmaking and Painting.

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PAINTING

Aubergine and sharon fruit. Oil on paper.

Pear and plums. Oil on paper.

Clementines. Oil on paper.

Bear mask. Oil on canvas.

Romany peppers. Oil on linen.

Pomegranate. Oil on linen.

Lemon and clementine. Oil on linen.

Alec. Oil on canvas. To be completed.

PRINTMAKING

Self portrait. Intaglio print.

Dead mouse. Intaglio print.

Walking bears. Chine colle.

SCULPTURE

Shaker light. Steel.

Prototype for a lampshade in paper.

Drawings and other summer work (2011)

Various pieces created in preparation for starting at Cardiff Metropolitan University (previously UWIC).

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What the cat brought in. Watercolour and pencil.

Alec. Oil on canvas.

Self-portrait. Pencil.

Tanqueray, asleep. Ink on paper.

Bottles. Watercolour.

UAL Foundation Diploma (2010/11)

Selected work from my Foundation course in Art and Design.

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Final piece for Summer exhibition, consisting of hundreds of selected monotone and sepia images pinned up in a cascading form.

Detail from final piece. An extract of 'The Wasteland' by T.S. Eliot mounted on board.

Initial collage for the project.

The stimuli for the project came from Nigel Henderson's 'Head of a Man' collage (1956).

School and Sixth Form (2008/10)

A few images remain from work between 2008 and 2010 - the halcyon years of GCSE Art & Design, followed by A-level Photography and Art.

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Above: Acrylic, ink and watercolour over acetate.

Detail from an enjoyable, albeit predictable 'Memories' project. Watercolour.

Detail from an exam piece. Watercolour, acrylic, lacquer and ink on paper.

Above and below: Initial darkroom prints.

Self portrait. Acrylic, 2009

Self portrait. Acrylic, 2009.

Grace. Oil on board, 2008.