Anne Gibbs

Yet again another lecture from a ceramics artist. I wasn't too interested in her ceramic work I found it a bit plain with not a lot happening. I liked the idea of having a collection of items together but I found Anne's collection uninteresting. I liked the places Anne visited whilst on her artist residential  I would find these places very inspirational. Her lecture showed me what artist residentials could entail giving me a better idea of what they are and give you.

Bev Milward

Again we had a ceramicist lecture, this time from Bev Milward. I'd seen Bev Milward's work before at craft fairs around Hereford and Rather liked it's sentimental element. What I liked about Bev's work was how it was all self narrated and changes as her life moves and changes. You can certainly see a development that has changed with her drawing/mark making in the work that always add more to the images she creates. I very much like her style of drawing and colour choice that make it very much her own. I also liked how she kept a similar style that she knows works like "two figures and a landscape".

Lecture: Claire Curneen

I can't say I was too excited to see Claire Curneen's lecture this afternoon as she is a ceramicist and I'm not a big fan of clay but there were still some things that I like about the way she works. I liked how she uses drawing as a way to work out ideas that may not be possible and to get a certain detail to do something. It keeps her ideas alive as they are not lost in thought. I need to draw more myself, as my mind is completely rattling with thoughts i just need to get them onto paper.

I also liked her source of inspiration. She would look at famous raphaelite paintings and Greek mythology for narratives to her work, which I find interesting to work in that way.

Low-Relief Embossing and Clay & Print

Happy Birthday to Me!

Today was a busy day with two workshops in one day. My first workshop for embossing and print was good. I didn't know what I was expecting when I arrived but I enjoyed it. I got to use the vinyl cutter which was new. We decorated blocks of wood with vinyl cuttings, sand blasted them to give them definition and used them to emboss paper with Roger using the Albion press. Afterwards we added paint to our blocks to print with again giving this really awesome print.

After lunch I went to the clay and print workshop as well but once it was explained I realized it was certainly not what I wanted. I thought it was going to be screen printing onto clay, when actually it was pushing things into clay, slips and oxides, digital transfer and printing using object. I know for sure now for certain that I don't want to do this for 3DSP. I still have to write about it in my technical file and be done with it.

Mould Making and Slip Casting

We had a workshop with Steve in the ceramics workshop we're he demonstraited to us how to make and do Mould Making and Slip Casting. It was very interesting as I've always wondered how they make their moulds. I took as many notes as possible but now I wish I had taken some picture of some of the steps.