• Paris in the springtime art trip

  • Paris in the springtime art trip

    Courtesy of Oslo University’s Studio House in Paris, I was able to visit the Palais de Tokyo, The Louvre and the Pompidou Centre, as well as spending time sketching and making art in the Studio. Here are a few highlights:

  • Forest Art

    A rainy Tuesday spent making art in Alice Holt Forest, near Farnham ….

  • ‘Avian Flu’

    (wood and wool), 2023, (work in progress), by Joy Millett This work responds to the pandemic of bird flu, which has affected many species of birds recently. It will be sited at the popular nature reserve of Farnham Heath from June until October 2023, as part of this year’s art trail. Although there are no…

  • Tauba Auerbach, Artist

    Auerbach uses a variety of media – painting, photography, book design and musical performance – to explore the limits of of our structures and systems of logic. Of particular interest to my artistic practice are: View all Auerbach’s work at Tauba Auerbach – Works

  • ‘Shapes’ Workshop: Saturday, 22nd April at South Hill Park Arts Centre, Bracknell

    There will be an activity workshop for young children, called ‘Shapes’ from 11am on Saturday, 22nd April. The workshop will introduce them to some of the basic architectural shapes to be found around the house and knot garden.

  • ‘Mirrored Architecture’

    (Coloured acrylic), Joy Millett The four shapes in this site-specific sculptural piece mirror some of the architectural details seen in the neo classical style of South Hill Park country house: the dentils found underneath the cornices of rooms, pediments above some of the doors, arches around the staircases and the Palladian staircase above the knot…

  • Alice Anderson, Artist

    Whilst I’ve used wrapping with wool to draw symbols to define the various components and sensitivities of language, Anderson wraps copper wire around everyday, increasingly disposable objects so that they can be remembered. This reflects the shifting relevance of the physical world in a society that is increasingly becoming part of a digital one. The…

  • ‘Language’

    (Wood and wool), 2023 by Joy Millett This piece uses a semiotic system to explore an invented, non-specific language. It has the usual components of a language, such as ciphers or symbols, space, colour, perspective, texture and rhythm. It alludes to a means to communicate, whether it be verbal, non-verbal, visual, instinctive, or nuanced. It…

  • John Locke

    “The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not be under the will or legislative authority of man, but only to have the law of nature as his rule”