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November 4, 2015 22:46
I've recently with the help and support of my amazing husband set up my new studio in Huntington Beach.
I have the urge to make sculpture again whilst continuing with my drawing in this new space.
So what is inspiring me at the moment? I feel most at ease expressing what I know and this at present is my own personal experience. I have started to look inside at what makes me, well me. Having travelled the past couple years and lived an 'expat' lifestyle at times I have felt isolated. Isolation aswell as many other feelings including happiness :) are areas I plan to explore.
My most recent study completed only a few hours ago, is a self portrait of myself as a child. It's title is 'Sam killed a seagull'.
One of my childhood memories of growing up was my beloved pet cat Sam, aswell as our back garden. The day Sam and his friend (a ginger tom cat belonging to our neighbour) Timmy caught a seagull was truly an unforgettable scene. I came home from school to my back garden covered in white feathers, from one end to the other. I remember feeling anger too. I hated seeing the birds be toyed with and not put out of their misery. It was perhaps only a couple years earlier, I lay with a black bird in a shoe box (one of Sam's previous near murders) praying that it's little soul would be saved. I waited with that bird until the sun went down and my Mother was calling me in to bed. The next day it was gone.
I decided to make my line drawing more detailed than usual and more complex in terms of composition using a Staedler pigment liner 0.1mm.
Posted November 4, 2015 22:46