Category: About My Art

Using art practice to revitalise the work of managers.

About My Art, Art at work, Inspiration, Local inspiration & activities, Photography, Travel

What have you been working on?

I just got back from a week in Chicago. Flew out last Sunday (short unexpected stop over in Philadelphia) and returned to London yesterday on a magnificent two story airbus.

Flying over Ireland on return
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Social World Inspiration

About My Art, Beauty influence, Ideas, Inspiration, Museum

I had a few days of annual leave from my 9 to 5 this week. With this time I managed to make a few skins in preparation for bigger paintings and to help finish the smaller pieces.

Experimenting and playing with making skins

I managed to meet up with old friends for lunches and suppers. It was at these events where I later became struck at how much my social world influences or at least threatens to shape what I do with my art.

Cultural references

London Pearly Queen’s 👑 outfit seen while visiting Sommer Town Museum, this week. Triggered our conversations about class, place spaces belonging. It made me think about aesthetic traditions and whose aesthetic is most dominant in the art world and why. I also considered occasions when the aesthetic of the less dominant is allowed to shine and be expressed. I concluded that there is a virtuous story to tell about duty, goodness and working hard that I discovered my art was at risk of being embroiled in.
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A Dance Interval Epiphany

About My Art, Alvin Ailey Dancers, Fantastical art, Painting-practice, Photography, Theatre

As I write ✍️, it is the first interval at Sadlers Wells on Saturday 16th September. We just finished watching the first act of The Alvin Ailey dance Roy’s Joys.

Photo shows. Interval activities, most get an ice cream, some read a book, I start to write a blog post
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