Its become a reflective period, studioless its given me a chance to turn my back on old paintings and old ways of working, it feels like a time of cleansing, a chance to let life open up again.
Last or current song you listened to (no cheating, we all have naughty comforts)?
Dylan’s newest unreleased track ‘Murder Most Foul’ its 17 minuets of lyrics (stick with it), a perfectly pairing song for the times
and the last or current show/film/video you watched ?
Instagram has been a way of staying close with family, friends and the art world some stories that i have been really enjoying are @joe_Warrior_Walker and @aliceellisbray. I’m fascinated recently at how other artist are responding to all this, these two artist are little Cornish treasures and certainly making the most of it. Oh and a Video by Mark Jenkin on Vimeo called ‘David Bowie is Dead’
What are you reading right now?
‘The Anthology of Contemporary Romanian Poetry’ always have this by my side.
What's the last thing you cooked? (recipes welcome!)
Melanzanie Parmigiana and Homemade Garlic Bread
What's the next thing you are going to cook?
been thinking of home and the sea lately (Cornwall) been a while since i have had some decent Fish that be nice.
If everything in your house was going to be the same colour what colour would you choose?
i couldn’t choose id like everything to be the colours of a Gauguin Polynesian Painting tho.
Which words or phrases do you most overuse ?
‘Im Over It’
Do you have any superstitions?
Saying Good Morning to every Magpie i see. done it since i was a kid
What makes you laugh (feel free to share any videos, memes, record a joke, your pet)
The old pissed up Cornish boy’s chat in the pubs..i miss them
Which artist-living or dead would you like to share your quarantine practice with? Why?
Egon Schiele - i could watch that man draw all day.
there is such a delicacy yet visceral-ness in his lines.
Karl Weschke - i like to sit with him, perched on a rock somewhere in Cape Cornwall and just talk, think he had some stories.
Exercise 2
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
Check out Michael's exercise three piece here
