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Drawing 2: Parallel Project

Bryan Eccleshall talks to student Sarah Youseman

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Louise Bourgeois – A Woman without Secrets

I visited this exhibition in Edinburgh with some trepidation. Was this woman’s work to touch a familiar and unsettling nerve and leave me restless and thoughtful for days in its wake like a poignant and provocative movie unleashing a tidal wave of draining emotion? Yesterday’s visit has indeed left me contemplative but not unsettled. Bourgeois’ […]

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Leonie Broekstra

Leonie’s image in the style of Vermeer first caught the eye of Elizabeth…

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Carol Smith

Here’s Doug Burton talking about Carol Smith’s work for Printmaking 2: Developing Your Style.

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Penni Redding (part 2)

More sumptuous textiles work from Penni

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Voyage of Discovery: Potential Collaborations?

  A very fruitful way of inspiring new creative journeys is to take something unfamiliar and start working with it. This could be something as broad as a new genre, style, theory, medium or piece of technology. The act of having to negotiate with something different will cause you to apply a new ways of […]

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Joanne Ward

The challenge here was to produce two large drawings, a study of natural forms and a collection of man-made objects…

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Anne Giddings

I’m grateful to tutor Clive White for drawing my attention to the interesting work Anne Giddings is doing for her level two Landscape course…

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Fish, on a plate

Quietly, over the last year or so, Leanne and Mark have been photographing examples…

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David Fewell

Here is assessor and tutor Jim Unsworth talking in his own inimitable style about what he appreciates in David Fewell’s ‘Fish on a Plate’ drawings. For those of you unfamiliar with ‘Fish on a Plate’ it is the second assignment (Observation in Nature) in the Drawing Skills course. I will be posting a compilation slideshow […]

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