As I said in my previous post “keep a look out” for our next collaborative piece featuring moi (Tina Webster) and the loverly Helen Shaddock.
Well here it is! The above shows a montage of how the art work came to me a few weeks ago and how I went about adding some rather wacky colours and some linear action to the piece.
I will be posting this and my new piece to Helen this week. I hope she likes it!
I mentioned in my post about The Drawing factory that me and a friend were hoping to do a similar activity where we each produced a piece of half finished art work and then post it the 403 miles from Glasgow to London so that the other person can finish it off.
Well, we are a couple of months in to our exercise and I wanted to show you what myself and Helen Shaddock have been up to.
The 2 images above are the first compete pieces we produced collaboratively. I received the 1st piece from Helen in March this year. It came to me as a lovely Indian ink drawing which also included collage. I then added the crazy cuts outs and the pencil/pen marks to create texture.
The second image is the one that I worked on initially. I used collage taken from magazines to create the repeated triangle shapes found in the work. Helen then painted the background a mid tone grey and added white lines.
Keep a look out over the coming months to see what else we come up with. The image below is my next piece from Helen that I will be working on. It’s exciting times!
Helen Shaddok one of my talented friends from my art school days is currently exhibiting her work in a solo exhibition held in Glasgow.
Helen is a fine artists and studied at the prestigious Glasgow School of Art on their Fine Art: Sculpture and Environmental Art degree. Her work is a dynamic and diverse mixture of performance art, installations and drawings. You can see more of her work on her new website www.helenshaddock.com
Her latest exhibition is called Schema and the theme behind the work “addresses the human need to make order out of chaos and understand the forces around us” (Helen Shaddock).
The exhibition will run from the 6th April to the 1st May 2010 and is being held at Che Camille, Floor 6, Argyll Chambers, 34 Buchanan Street, Glasgow,
Scotland G2 8BD.
This weekend I went to see some art exhibitions in London with a friend. I haven’t done that kind of thing in such a long time (which is bad to admit, being creative and all!) but it was well worth the trek around east London.
One of the shows we went to see was by The Drawing Factory at Madame Lillie’s in Stoke Newington.
The Drawing Factory is made up from five uber talented illustrators/drawers named Uma Mahadeva, Amy Green, Colin Marsh, Ambrosine Allen and Jonathan Gildersleeves. They all met whilst undertaking their MA in drawing at Wimbledon School of Art.
The group gathers once a month in sociable spaces and draws together. They often pass one-another’s drawings around and have someone else complete the work or make some arty changes to it. This collaborative way of working shows great diversity in each piece of work they do. As well as meeting once a month to draw together they often post one another pieces of work which can be anywhere from the size of a stamp to larger pieces. Each artist has a different working style and they experiment using different mediums such as collage, paint, pencil, charcoal and much more.
It was a great exhibition and very inspirational! I loved the diversity of the works and I think that by letting someone else tinker with a piece you have produced can really add a whole new dimension! In fact, the show was so great that now me and my artists friend Helen Shaddock are going to try and send each other a piece of art work each month and see what we both come up with.
(Drawings by members of The Drawing Factory)
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