...spare but there....

The beautiful weather enticed me into my studio for a couple of hours this morning.Most of the time I simply sat and mused. Listening to the radio I caught the tail end of a comment from a pianist/composer who improvises many of her performances. She said that the work bypasses her mind and comes straight through her body....I felt that this rather summed up my drawing as an intuitive process.....and yes a drawing now sits on my studio bench.....spare but definitely there...

Inspired by Rachel Whiteread

I went up to London on Monday to see the Rachel Whiteread drawings. I was particularly struck by the glass vitrines containing paraphernalia collected over many years. This collection of various bits and pieces were used as sources of inspiration in her studio...a habit of collecting shared by many of us who are artists. Judging by the interest of my fellow gallery viewers this was the highlight of the exhibition. That is not to say that the drawings themselves were not well worth seeing but the vitrines left so much to the imagination and so much unsaid....I am now playing 'Kim's Game'!!

A beginning or an end...?

Took down the M.A. show yesterday. It rather felt like an end rather than a beginning. With the pods laid to rest in a box of tissue and their voices silenced I am wondering where I will take my work form here. Moving on is always difficult and painful. What is clear is that I will not go back and that with time I will find a new way forward....

The works in my MA exhibition have received some interesting responses.I think that in general people loved the simplicity of the work and appreciated its spareness and lack of sophistication. One person commented that the transparent shapes did not demand immediate authorial explanation, but allowed the viewer to feel the harmony of the artworks.
I enjoyed watching people on Saturday having to stoop low to look closely at the 'pods' sensing their longing to touch. For one or two the temptation was too hard to resist; a sensory experience for those who dared reach out a hand!!