I had the very great pleasure to visit the new Hans Peter Feldman exhibition at the Serpentine Gallery recently. It is open until June 5th. Feldman’s output shares many themes with my own and so I had the usual,’ I wish I had done that moments as I went round as well as the...
I’d like to share with everyone the work of one of my drawing 1 students – Joe Clark. He is a capable student and very motivated. We are having some interesting discussions because when he first came onto the course his work seemed to have an aesthetic which was born out of advertising or...
I have been working on a website for some time now and it finally launched this week. The technical support I have received from friends, family and professionals has been so productive as to be more of a creative collaboration. I am a firm believer in collaboration and accepting pretty much any help that...
One of the reasons I like working for the OCA is that it gives the widest possible range of people the chance to make serious art and gain a degree if they so wish. Nowhere is this more dramatically illustrated than in the work of students serving in Category A prisons. The images here...
OCA level one painting student, Paul Yelland, has developed a consistent range of evocative images that carry the viewer into the space he has painted in a very particular way. Have a look at this:
This month’s blog is an update on my studio practice. Whatever I am making art about, to some extent I am always asking myself and the work: ‘why it is necessary that it is made?’ Some ideas are better written down, or danced, or written off. I am looking to make visual art, and...
Walking into the Elizabeth Blackadder exhibition at the Edinburgh National Gallery I had the feeling that I had walked into the ultimate level 1 drawing submission. For those of you who know the courses, there was a view from one space to another, view through a window, landscape, still life with natural and man-made...
For this blog I wanted to share with you the first assignment I received recently from my student Milena Blaziak. On opening the folder my first impression was that Milena had been working with enthusiasm, energy and focus. Her initial exploratory drawings were done on newsprint which reminded me of the incredibly intense experience...
I thought that for this blog entry I might talk a little about my own life as an artist. Students often struggle with motivation and time management and I wanted to talk a little about my own experiences as these two issues will follow you throughout your artistic career. I am an artist living...
I am pleased to begin my tenure as a Fine Art blogger for OCA. I have spoken to my students in advance and we have agreed three areas of possible interest to the OCA readership. The first is reviews of exhibitions or places of interest and I will begin with a review of the...
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