Degree Show Ideas

Posted on 7 March 2008

Hello,

In the past few months I have been looking into the concepts of my practice, the idea, the material, the reason to produce. In January I handed in my dissertation that looked at drawing in the essence of making a mark from the body and from the mind. This was the largest piece of written text I had done and found the experience stressful to say the least! But the things that I reflected on afterwards was what changed my appreciation to artists and their personal practice.

Some of the work shown below has been submitted to the Henry Moore exhibition and New Contemporaries, and I intend to submit work to other exhibitions or shows as well.

Below are a few shots of what work I have been doing over the passed three months. It tracks the different concepts I have thinking about and how I want some of the work to be displayed. The work ranges from trace drawings, woodland paintings, shots in my studio, post-it notes of small drawings and mack metal installations. These are just testers for what I might want to show for my degree show in May.

Thanks for your time,

Ed.

Looking at the Line

Posted on 11 December 2007

Hello,

I have been quite busy lately creating work for my degree and work for The Lincoln Christmas Market. A lot of ideas have come from the walk I did and I have been especially looking at my line-based compositions. These small black and white drawings show my observational studies and the descriptive quality in the land. They are intermit and have a personal quality to them.

In the black and white sketches I was interested in layering them on top of each other so that you can see different perspectives and marks. I choose to use tracing paper as a starting point because of its transparent medium. When the A4 paper was folded into long landscape concertina I was able to flatten the tracing paper (through a press) and create a drawing which encompassed five sketches. I found this process interesting, but want to explore this layering further.

I then made the same product out of resin. The finished product felt incomplete and wasn’t portraying what I intended. So I moved into glass work, which gave me some exciting outcomes. I did a number of these to sell for the Christmas Market taking place from the 6th - 9th December. The black and white glass works have the most potential as they amplify the different marks on the glass.

In the studio I have also been creating some black and white landscapes which deal with marks, gesture and ideas of paths. I found out from my walk that I want to study colour in a very minimal way, as colour can be very provocative in its nature. I want the expression of my work to be as organic as possible, and not have my audience read into the colour, but read into the lines and marks I create.

I will be exploring this further and on a grander scale when I finish my dissertation! Thanks for listening and enjoy the images,

The Guardian

Posted on 10 November 2007

Hi all,

Just thought I’d share with you a link which shows my walk being published in The Guardian.

http://jobsadvice.guardian.co.uk/graduate/story/0,,2204330,00.html

Enjoy, Ed

The Viking Way

Posted on 8 November 2007

Hello everyone,

People who are quite interested in my work might want to know that I have just recently done a 86mile walk around Lincolnshire. The walk is called ‘The Viking Way’ and is a 150miles lone. I decided to split the walk in half as I felt I needed more time to see the surroundings, than just walk past it!

So far I have completed the part from the Humber Bridge down to Lincoln City. On the way I passed places like Caistor, Tealsby, Donnington on Bain, Horncastle and Woodhall Spa. The Wolds had great views and I could see for tens of miles in all directions.

On my journey I tried to capture my experience by sketching and note-taking on the way. I found this tool to be useful in gathering information from nature. The quick sketches I did helped me capture the landscape and the more I did, the better I got at understanding the compositional layout of the land.

Hope you like some of the work and it would be great to hear some responses.

New site

Posted on 23 October 2007

Hi there, I hope you enjoy visiting my site.

The work section has been redesigned to show thumbnail of my paintings, which should make it easier to use. Let me know what you think! Ed

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