Category: Creative Practice / Process
Inspiration and the creative process
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Four new colours for this month’s creative practice. CHANCLA the cheap rubber pink of beach flip-flops. CALIMA the hazy, dust-filled sky that blurs the horizon during the hottest stretch of summer.TINTO tinto de verano, the red wine and lemonade mix.NOCHE the deep, warm dark of an August night, still holding the day’s heat. Use them…
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(versión en español abajo) Last month’s daily prompt number 20 (LINE) started simply: A few drawn lines on paper with my new calligraphy pen. Those lines found their way under and over two different images. The first pasted into a circle and hung on a local wall. The second, layered over the beach at La…
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(versión en español abajo) This month’s COAST of LIGHT daily prompt number 17 (MATERIAL WORLD as a pattern) found its way into a new set of works this last week. The material in question (as seen in the images above): a cracked window at Girona train station. The glass had fractured from the inside, internal…
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Four new colours for this month’s creative practice. GIRASOL named after the sunflower fields that fill the Andalucían countryside in July. CANDELA Spanish for flame or firelight, capturing the heat and energy of the month.HIGUERA the fig tree, in fruit right now, with flesh this exact deep dusty rose.PISCINA simply “swimming pool,” that bright artificial…
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Two of this month’s daily prompts: 17, MATERIAL WORLD (as a pattern), and 20, LINE, found their way into the same artwork this last week. The image of the sea was taken here at the coast, then combined with a pattern from the interior of our car. Layered together, the crinkled, patterned surface of the…
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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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