Friday, 13 February 2009

Tomatoes!

If you are familiar with my obsession for this amazing fruit, you will understand the exclamation mark in the title. I requested to paint these today, and was surprised that Allen (teacher) took notice of my suggestion. . . My composition is definitely improving and I think that I am generally moving in the right direction - perhaps it was simply a case of being more excited about what I was painting.

Wednesday, 11 February 2009

Boom @ Royal College of Art . . .

This is the RCA's work in progress show before the final graduation show in june. The Architects were all dealing with themes of Boom and Doom: tackling how to design for a new rather depressing world of limited space, deforestation, lack or resources, etc. There was some interesting work in the Art and Animation sections, although I could not easily understand their development, as there was very limited information available. It seems that I am consistently drawn to work that clearly shows a process, which I find to be more accessible - at the RCA; this seems to occur most frequently in the work of the architecture students.

Friday, 6 February 2009

4 Green bottles . . .


Todays oil painting effort . . .

Wednesday, 4 February 2009

Palladio @ Royal Academy

16th Century Architect . . . nuff said!

Tuesday, 3 February 2009

Unveiled @ Saatchi . . .


Slipped my way across London on the ice, whilst my school was closed, to visit this exhibition today. At points the themes of oppression and conflict by the middle eastern artists was hardly subtle yet there were certain pieces that struck an emotive chord with me: the most obvious being the empty tinfoil vessels of women in prayer by Kader Attias; as well as Halim Al Karim's haunting triptychs of photographs. (Phone pics again - will try not to forget camera next time!)