Debi: Detail

Detail - The Journey #3

I am loving where this piece is going. I have been using the oil paints and sticks very thinly like water colours and building up the image in layers. Watch this space for the finished piece.....

Debi: Work in progress

The Journey - Series #3

 

The start of the 3rd painting in the series - oil on canvas



Debi: More recent work

The Journey - Series #2

 

The 2nd painting in the series - oil on canvas 60cm x 120cm. 

Debi: Recent Commission

Beautiful Ben

Here is a recent commission I completed for very close friends. 60cm x 60cm mixed media on canvas. 

Debi: New work 2012

 





The Journey Series #1

This is number 1 of a series of new paintings I have been working on in 2012, whilst based at the Enterprise studio space. I have decided to title the series of works 'The Journey' as it is exactly that - a very personal journey I regularly travelled as a child. I have used oil paints on canvas in this piece.
 I hope you will enjoy travelling back along the road with me.

Debi: Warhol Workshop

 

Here is a publicity shot that appeared in the Hull Daily Mail 4th July 2012. It was taken during the workshop Julia and I ran at the Ferens Art Gallery and Park St College, in the last week of June 2012. In the photograph you can see one of the students drawing over her own enlarged portrait. All 24 students went on to draw one on top of the other. The finished result was a spectacular largescale portrait of 24 faces merged into one. 

Julia: Studio visitors

Today we had three film-makers Kyle, Andy and Zak with us making a documentary about our experience with The Enterprise Group and Net 315. Only three of us were available Matt, Adam and myself, Julia but hopefully they will return in September to speak to Debi and perhaps Joan as well. However it gave us an opportunity to extend our thanks to Net 315 and particularly our mentor Chris Wiles. What we tried to convey on film was how the support we have been given since our graduation has been invaluable. .the transition from graduate to working artist has been considerably eased by Net 315’s support.

I wanted to express my feeling that the artist as outsider is an outdated concept. Nobody is an outsider if they ever really were, in reality the artist has a place in society and always has done. Contrary to the popular myth that art is easy and artists are lazy it is actually a very intense under-rated career choice. Of course it is a joy on one level to make art and to have the opportunity to do something we love but it is always a challenge to put into practice what we see in our minds eye, the output whilst important is only part of the story. To develop and promote our work we require a disciplined approach and regular constructive feedback and we cannot live in isolation because we have to take on board what is happening around us. It takes a lot of self discipline to keep going against the tide of opinion as many an artist has discovered in the hope that at some point the population at large will get it.

I experienced real satisfaction when I visited the Metamorphosis exhibition at the National gallery and discovered that I was not the only one to be inspired by Titians Diana and Actaeon series of paintings. The voyeuristic quality of art has always fascinated me and to see Mark Wallinger’s Diana, Conrad Shawcross’s Trophy along with Chris Offil’s paintings all responding to Titians work in differing ways from my own  work A Four panelled  Screen was quite thrilling. I enjoy other people’s art and want them to enjoy mine. So in the year ahead I plan along with my fellow artists to try and get my work out there as often as possible. And on that note I want to say I have now completed the Wedding painting of Porth Sele beach, not perhaps what I usually do but it has been an interesting subject matter and I hope will bring pleasure to the bride and her family.