COAST of LIGHT
Art rooted in light, nature & place
Category: Creative Practice / Process
Inspiration and the creative process
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At a recent Create & Connect session, we completed the Wartegg Drawing Completion Test, devised by psychologist Ehrig Wartegg in 1934. The idea is simple. A series of lines and shapes. You complete them. You reveal yourself. You can read more about it here. What emerged from it, after sitting with the drawings for a…
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Four new colours for this month’s creative practice. JASMINE WHITE: the background, the space between things. COASTAL STRAW: dry grass in the heat, the colour of July arriving early. MAR ESMERALDA: the sea on a clear morning, deep and still. ALMADRABA, warm terracotta skin, the ancient tuna fishing grounds of the coast. Use them however…
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This week, inspired by maps as works of art, particularly those by Grayson Perry, I set out to create some of my own. This first piece incorporates all of my daily prompts (see previous blog post), woven into a minimal map of where I live. I wanted the work to feel part mind map, part…
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Inspired by the coast, interpreted anywhere.A new project for inspiration, starting today. The COAST of LIGHT prompts are a simple framework for an ongoing creative practice. They grew out of my own creative process and the places where I find inspiration, something I’ll be reflecting on along the way. The same prompts will return each…
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Process & Inspiration (versión en español abajo) This week, a look behind The Turning Ground series. It all begins simply: markers, yellow paper, a few words that catch a feeling. From there, everything shifts, is scanned, layered, and reworked digitally until the energy of those first lines finds its rhythm again in light and texture.…
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version en español abajo The Advent Challenge is finished! Twenty-four days, twenty-four artworks, a journey of rhythm, colour and creativity. It’s been good fun creating these small daily works and sharing them along the way. You can see all works collected together here: https://coastoflight.blog/advent-art-25/ Don’t forget if you’re interested in any of the works they…
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Today I’m sharing some of the colours we’ve been working with so far for the Advent challenge, a small window into the palette, rhythms, and decisions shaping the work. You can find all pieces to date on the blog via this link https://coastoflight.blog/advent-art-25/ and if you’re drawn to any of them, the prints are available…
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versión en español abajo December always begins with a spark with the first prompts of the annual Big Advent Art Challenge (Instagram @thebigadventartchallenge). This year, the journey is all about colour. So far the prompts have been: Peach Fuzz, Sea Green, and Scorched Earth. Three colours, three moods. Do with them what you will. For…
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versión en español abajo A small moment, a simple pebble. I am currently enjoying this process of pushing and following a pebble across paper with one of my coloured pens, letting it leave its own wandering marks, its own quiet map. Next I scan it onto the laptop, where those marks become something. Often I…
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Along the River Majaceite (versión en español abajo) Last Friday’s walk along el Río Majaceite, from the cool shade of the valley to the sturdy heights of Benamahoma, felt like stepping into a moving wonderland. Light filtered, water broke into patterns, and every turn offered a new texture: moss, stone, shadow, reflection. These are the…
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