It’s taken some time to renew my posts after Heat Exchange 1.
Posting on-line isn’t a normal or everyday activity for me- but it has been increasingly on my mind to upload some recent thoughts and ideas for the possible direction for this new body of work and also some images from the Summer when I visited Elizabeth (Turrell) in Bristol to help with the ‘Shock and Awe’ exhibition’ (see last post).
In the studio, Elizabeth and Stephen ,Summer 2014 in Bristol
My work, (the Masters students’ show had), and family commitments in Edinburgh had, prevented me making it to Erfurt to enamel with everyone- which was sorely disappointing. It would have been super to meet up with old and new friends and colleagues and share studio time and ideas. So I was so pleased to be able to visit Elizabeth, Roger and Jessica in Bristol and have time to experiment and play in Elizabeth’s inspiring studio and home.
Evening train journey to Bristol from London
Back In Edinburgh, Corstorphine Hill. View from Corstorphine Hill Tower, a memorial to Sir Walter Scott.
‘Black and White Traces’ , brooch, 2014. Enamel, Rubber, Steel
‘Black Trace’, brooch, 2014. Enamel, Rubber, Steel
Now as Winter begins to move towards Spring there are some new shoots emerging after a long, dark and to be honest, quite difficult Winter.
My ideas turn around the samples I made in Bristol and some pieces that were part of an exhibition in Montreal “ÉMAUX AT THIS MOMENT” at the end of last year at Galerie Noel Guyomarch
Now I am looking forward to some of my own studio time again to take words and ideas forward.
Themes I am continuing to explore include:
“threads – hints- touches – marks – grids – pathways – lines – light – dark – shadows – boundaries –demarcation- delineation- discrimination- segregation- isolation”
More on how these progress next….