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21 January 2012
Along the lines - Metropolitan line
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For the Sketchbook Project I'm "writing the lines" - each of the lines that make up what used to be known as London Undergrou...
New materials
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Exciting to see the work made by design team Glithero. The video of "Bench Mold" on the first page of their website gives me ide...
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20 January 2012
What a difference a title makes (2)
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"The Desert Ablaze", 1953, by Jean Dubuffet . The title works on its own - all sorts of images and questions come to mind when I...
What a difference a title makes (1)
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A painting by Barnett Newman ; the date is 1954. It can be categorised as Colour Field painting (a "direction" in Abstract Expres...
En passant
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You know how it is - you're looking for something on the web, and come across other interesting stuff... I've been looking at this ...
Ropes and beads
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Brazilian artist Maria Nepomuceno uses ropes to make nets, hammocks, and other space-occupying structures. She allows her materials to obey...
19 January 2012
False start (shades of red)
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After gathering all my red, yellow, and blue scraps, I started with the red ones - ironing, tearing into strips. It made sense to lay out a...
18 January 2012
Tomb of the Unknown Craftsman
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Went late in the day (less crowded); lingered, and saw only half; will be going back. Loved the exhibition - Bought the book - This ...
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Object du jour
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This beautiful object, the shower mixer This beautiful object, the shower mixer, will be hidden in the hole in the wall - If the ligh...
Desirable door
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Woburn Square, Bloomsbury.
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17 January 2012
The pleasure of notebooks/journals
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Domestic upheaval (of the bathroom-renovation kind) means that the stack of "morning pages" notebooks that have been languishing u...
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Coffee/tea shop
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My travels to the ends of the tube lines landed me in Cockfosters, northern end of the Piccadilly line. No charity shops, but I found the J...
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16 January 2012
Journal Quilts 2012
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This year Contemporary Quilt 's JQ challenge is "Shades of..." and involves using 75% or more of a colour in the monthly A4-...
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15 January 2012
On the Piccadilly line
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How did they do that?
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"Northampton squirclamshell" from here (originally from here somewhere, which has lots of interesting folded things to look at....
14 January 2012
Art I like - Marian Bijlenga
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Large work from small elements, carefully disposed - The evolution of the work over time (and space) - Marian Bijlenga 's work has...
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Gesamtkunstwerk
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New art from Germany at the Saatchi Gallery (till 30 April) - see it online too. Without knowing anything about the artists, I found the wo...
12 January 2012
A coincidence of "woodcuts"
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Mere days after seeing a work by Gerhard Richter that uses lino printing ink as a "drawing" medium, I've come across the woodc...
Mended ceramics
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See the work that lies behind Janet Haigh's mended ceramics here . She's done a lot of research on mending...
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11 January 2012
Wordless Wednesday
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