Category: Creative Practice / Process
Inspiration and the creative process
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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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Cold sunrise over the marshes this morningThe day finding its creative shapeAnd now I work on mine Amanecer frío sobre las marismas esta mañanaEl día encuentra su forma creativaY ahora yo trabajo en la mía
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(versión en español abajo) Some artworks begin in the present moment, and others begin long before you realise what they’ll become. This week’s process and inspiration post goes back to 2008/2009, when I first created the original background on Photoshop that later evolved into my two Playa Victoria pieces. Those early images were simple observations…
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IN THE FIELD (versión en español abajo) Everything begins somewhere real: a cracked wall, the side of a tree, the beach at sunset. Fragments that turn into artworks of their own, layered, transformed, and filled with light. EN EL CAMPO Todo comienza en un lugar real: una pared agrietada, el tronco de un árbol, la…
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Mary Castle Reimagined (versión en español abajo) Mary Castle Reimagined: a work that began with a simple painting that has always been part of my life and grew into something layered and alive. The original brushstrokes belonged to my grandmother, a painter of quiet trees and calm horizons. Years later, I have revisited one of…
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(versión en español abajo) Sometimes it starts with a single frame, the way sunlight touches a crumbling wall, the shadow of a palm leaf, the quiet air in Plaza de Mina. This was the original photo that became the artwork, a simple moment of LOOKING UP, transformed through a simple added texture or two from…
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