My dear friend Helen Shaddock recently sent me an email with a few pics from her current exhibition “Coloured Matter” (more…)
Posts Tagged ‘Helen Shaddock’
16/09/2010
Mail art (I’ve lost count)
I haven’t been keeping you all up to date with mine and Helen’s mail art activities recently. But rest assured we’ve been busy busy!
Here are a selection of the ones we have been working on recently.
July 2010
August 2010
And the new one from Helen for September…
13/06/2010
Mail art part IV
Here’s June’s mail art to have a gander at.
This month I have been inspired by seagulls after a recent long weekend down in Cornwall. Whilst working on the piece I was also listening to the new
Divine Comedy track “Island Life” from their new album “Bang goes the Knighthood“.
Helen’s piece to me reminds me of islands in the sea so adding seagulls seemed quite fitting.
Below is Helen’s piece to me before I worked on it.
11/06/2010
Mail art part III
I have been a little late with getting May’s mail art back to Helen but here is a sneeaky peak at the piece we worked on together.
Below is the initial artwork Helen sent to me and subsequently how I added to it.
25/04/2010
North to South mail art – Part II
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!
20/04/2010
North to South mail art
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!
18/04/2010
Schema – A solo exhibition by Helen Shaddock
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.
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