Making pigments, tracing shadows, discovering texture and an unexpected sound effect: Tower Gallery artist residency week 3

Goodness knows what my neighbour thought I was doing, in the garden, wearing a mask, carrying three small bottles of powder, a jar of liquid and an egg… But I had an experiment to do, making brick and stone watercolours and egg tempera to try out in the Tower Gallery … Read More

Binding sketchbooks, chasing shadows and painting with clay: Tower Gallery artist residency week 2

Big drawings. How to prepare? The tiny sketchbooks I carry, which I bind from offcuts and scrap are – well – tiny. So, my Tower Gallery residency project being about the building, bringing my love of appropriate materials from my design life I’ve made one big sketchbook from lining paper, … Read More

Feeling my way around a building

Applying paint with sandpaper; making arcs with match pots; working on wallpaper… This is no ordinary project – and it’s happening in a tower. Clients working with me over the Summer know that I’m spending two days a week on artist residency at Tower Gallery, in the Memorial Community Church in … Read More