Recently I’ve been experimenting with colour intensity and they’re beginning to convey my sense about how we work and contemporary working environments.
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Thoughts, insights, and moments from my creative and professional journey. the reflections that shape my art, my work, and the way I see the world.
Home Office Furniture: Spring Trends Inspo
I visited Covent Garden and came across a thoroughly modern furniture store. It provided great inspiration for potential colours in artwork and items I will make.
70’s inspired tubular furniture 
Colourful media units 
Classical surroundings 
Fruit colour storage 
Modern organisation
Art about Black Lives: It Really Does Matter Where Displayed
Who would have thought that Margate would be where I would discover a gallery floor full of art about the black lived experience. This blog tells the story of what I discovered and what it meant to my own future art practice, especially when considering how and where I would like my art displayed.
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Margate Photos & Sea-Themed Art in Cosmetic Head Office
I travelled to Margate and stayed at a lovely hotel behind Tate Contemporary.
I saw lots of lovely sea views and sunsets. See eight more images below
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Process Inspiration From the Bigger Players
We have a new Ikea (well, it’s one year old) in Hammersmith, and I popped in there to get my lamp base, as it is those that I use in my photo shoots for my lampshades.
However, I found the new shapes and colours on display inspired me. It was mostly monochrome (black and white on display there). I grew curious about how they managed only to charge £8.00 for a floor lamp. I then began to look more closely at how these were made and noticed how they used plastic clips to attach the ring to the fabric.
I wondered why this form of making lampshades might exist and then realised it might enable the scaling up of the production.
Normally, the fiddly bit in lampshades is tucking the fabric into the metal frame. Some artisans get over this fiddly bit using a lampshade binder; see Lush Designs in the video below.
Seeing this and other lampshade manufacturing videos made me think of what is possible beyond my art being a hobby and into a full-blown business in the future.
However, a big part of me wishes to keep my hand in the work and mix a combination of digital technology and manufacturing equipment to still allow my items to emit a personality while offering a personal and even bespoke buying service to potential customers.
Although I didn’t make much this week, I made a lot of progress with decisions on what equipment to invest in to increase my making while developing my unique style to more customers.
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