Artist Research- Paco Sainz

Paco Sainz is a master of stone, wood and bronze, and from the on-going dialogue between the artist and his materials emerge his sculptures.  Mythical, sometimes symbolic, and always magical, Sainz’s sculptures are laced with story, statement and power.

Artist Research- Lizzie Rose

'There is freshness and immediacy [to Lizzie Rose's work], combined with an accomplished sense of handling in mixed media. The range of Rose’s work, capable of both power and delicacy conveys a keenly observed sense of nature which is intensely felt.'

Artist Research- Jane MacNeill

Jane MacNeill’s richly worked oil paintings have an icon-like quality and a quiet dream-like intensity.  Recurring motifs include figures, trees, birds, animals and moths, all treated in Jane’s characteristically restrained and sensitive style.  Simple composition, subtle colour relationships, close tonality, and rich surface quality give the paintings a feeling of stillness, and a sense of the otherworldly.

The Poison Garden

A bit late but it relates to my last project but check this out; http://www.thepoisongarden.co.uk/

Artists Research- Annie Cattrell

So, I saw this work in the gallery in town back home and I just fell in love with her work, she's so cool.
she looks into medical advancement and represents it in glass. Very, very cool.
Annie Cattrell trained as a sculptor and her work is informed by her interest in areas such as neuroscience, anatomy and meteorology, the fusion between science and art. She works in a variety of media but is drawn to glass because of its transparency and through it she captures the rhythms of the natural world, moments in time, fleeting things, clouds on a particular day, the delicacy of the human lung. 

Artist Research-Embroidery Artists

Jenny Hart.
Jenny Hart was born in 1972 in Iowa City and raised in rural Illinois. She is best known for her artwork in hand embroidery and her design company Sublime Stitching. Hart’s work has been published in numerous books and magazines including Vogue, Nylon, Spin, The Face, Juxtapoz, The New York Times Magazine and others. She has exhibited in Los Angeles, Paris, London and New York. Hart is also an award-winning author of seven titles on embroidery for Chronicle Books. Jenny’s work is in multiple public and private collections of note, including the estate of Elizabeth Taylor and the permanent collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum. 
I really like the detail and style in her work and I think it's something I'd like to emulate.

There is also a woman named Louise Gardiner,
Louise combines the exciting and intricate medium of free machine embroidery with her passion for drawing and says she can drive a sewing machine like an ‘Aston Martin!’  She creates figurative, floral and flamboyant pieces of artwork using a combination of rhythmic drawing, intense and intricate free machine stitches, paints, appliqué and inks.  Every work is unique and labor-intensive, planned yet spontaneous.  These original and energetic embroideries celebrate the rich and colorful medium of thread and illustrate her sensitivity to her surroundings, lust for life and cheeky sense of humor.  

William Hershal

so, there is this wonderful story about William Hershal whilst he was designing his impossible telescope. Whilst casting the metal -in his basement-, he made a miscalculation with the temperature of the furnace and it exploded, throwing molten metal across the stone room and apparently missing Hershal by 2 feet. It lest massive cracks around the basement. There is also this chart, which was not drawn by Hershal but by John Flamsteed in 1729.

And this is Hershals telescope.

He also thought people lived on the moon in little circular cities-Circuses. ha!

So I think I'd like to do something with molten metal scaring wood. and maybe embroider cloth with some atlas pages. And i think I'd like to have the music he wrote playing, because he was also a well respected cellist and pianist and played for the Bath pump room orchestra. That was a very big deal in 1760. And something about the people in the moon because that's just spectacular.

Discovery in the age of wonder

So, I read this book, Discovery in the age of wonder by Richard Holmes. It is the most incredible book. full of ridiculous, brilliant people.
Mainly Joseph banks-[total fittie] and William Hershal-[my ideal man]
Their industry and determination, their passion for discovery is the reason we know so much today and I would really like to work with them as inspiration.
Joseph banks was part of cooks expedition to track the progress of Venus on Tahiti and William Hershal was the man who discovered Uranus.
I think what I'd like to do is focus on Hershal, as he is by far the most insane.

50 shades of pants

So, one of my first thoughts for the summer brief was to take the mick of the 50 shades of grey craze. which is awful, just awful. My idea was to have one of the smaller isles in the library full of suspended knicker and bras and stocking, the trashiest stuff I could possibly find. Like Anne Summers in a library. However I felt this my be a bit shallow and one dimensional. Still, really fun though. To cheer myself up ive got a picture of some pants