I’m isolating at my parents’ house in Norfolk, which is fortunately better equipped than my studio back at home. Crucially, they’ve recently acquired a printing press and jumble of old materials, so I’ve been teaching myself how to make etchings. I don’t know what it is about being here, but I haven’t felt like painting at all, just printing and lots of drawing- my drawing callous is grotesque.
Whats last or current song you listened to (no cheating, we all have naughty
Metal Fatigue by Allan Holdsworth, I am not ashamed.
Paella- For want of a better word. No Spanish person would have called it paella. Could more accurately be called leftovers with rice.
What's the next thing you are going to cook?
If everything in your house was going to be the same colour what colour
Definitely green- I think it has the most diverse spectrum. There’s a shade called ‘chic lime’ that Jeffrey Bilhuber uses which I love. I’m quite anti-houseplant too, so it would be nice for some
verdancy.
I consulted my sister and apparently it’s “get outta here!” which I suppose speaks to my incredulous nature.
I’m unsuperstitious to the point where it circles back and probably becomes superstitious again- I always make sure to step on the cracks.
What makes you laugh (feel free to share any videos, memes, record a
My siblings and I have been getting a lot of mileage out of the ‘aggressively country child DEMANDING to pet this dog’ meme
Which artist-living or dead would you like to share your quarantine practice with? Why?
Betty Swanwick! We would sit in the garden and draw all day, inhaling cigars. We would probably just chat actually.
Exercise 2
Draw a horse from memory- extra points if you can figure out what their knee situation is.
We are probably going to get through a lot of these homework sheets - so write a question for other people that you want to know the answer to ?
I don’t know if everyone else feels the same way, but I have felt in particularly close quarters with my vices during this period of isolation, so:
If you had to live with one vice for the rest of your life what would it be?
We are putting together a mixtape - what’s your go to song for dancing? being in the studio? chilling out? falling in love?
I’m going to put forward Spectral Mornings by Steve Hackett as studio & chilling out music. This is what my mum calls ‘anti-social music’ so... topical? Great for clearing out the room. Crocodile Rock by Elton John for dancing, I Have Been in You by Frank Zappa for falling in love, then Broken Hearts are for Assholes for falling out of it.
For Exercise Three, we ask our artists to pick one of the following subjects as a starting point to make some work using an A5 piece of paper/cloth/whatever you like to the size with no restriction on media. These will be published on our website and available for £110 each.
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Still life: pick 3 items from your surrounding and recreate them
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Draw the last text you received/Page 15 from a book you are currently reading 7th sentence down
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Draw the last exhibition you saw/in style of the last exhibition you saw
Going for number 3, draw the last text you received, you can check out Plum's exercise three piece here
“Avon is recruiting. Reply with your NAME and EMAIL to see how much you could earn.”
