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Since our move to North Wales we’ve been able to appreciate setting up a more permanent base. Due to various reasons we moved house every year of university which made it difficult to really setting. I have spent an awful lot of time not painting over the last year. Working a full-time job has reducedContinue reading “A New Beginning”

I have been working at a local factory that is still in development. My job has come at the right time and seemingly at the right place too. I have already learned a huge amount and dare I say sometimes enjoyed myself! I was offered a sensory course on food tasting run by Coleg Menai.Continue reading “Pale Yellow”

Menai Canfas – Aberteifi /Cardigan The last few months have had their challenges. I have started a new part-time job to help tide me over and support my art creations. Delivering food from local restaurants in the evenings by bicycle isn’t exactly a dream job but it’s helping to keep me afloat at the moment.Continue reading “Exhibition – Debut”

At this stage of preparations I have ordered relevant frame moulding lengths and gladly most of them have arrived. Unfortunately some key elements to most of my frames are out of stock for up to a month which puts a little bit of stress into the whole affair. This has left me with the questionContinue reading “Framing Dilemma”

Recently I have been feeling a slight depression with my work. Preparing for my December exhibition has been going on for two months now and not an awful lot of process has seemed to be made. I do not feel very happy with any of the sketches I’ve produced so far and the clock isContinue reading “Rust-Tipped Flashes”

This post has been published later than I would have liked. For weeks now I have been struggling with technology after accidentally breaking my laptop screen. Having also had issues with my phone for some time now I haven’t been able to write much. Since a family member has ever-so-kindly supported me with the purchaseContinue reading “Exhibition – Early Struggles”

Things in life have been a bit busy lately. I have been working out how to best frame my work, experimenting with a few designs and colours. It’s amazing how much a frame can ruin a painting’s feel… or enhance it. I didn’t have frames in mind when I produced my degree show because framesContinue reading “Framing Minefield”

This week has been hectic! The contract of my shared student flat had finally come to an end and so my next step was to move in with my lovely fiancé Dot! Our new place is much larger than the last and is more central in town. We had fears of the street being tooContinue reading “Move”

I have written regularly over the last few weeks but I have been unable to share it publicly. These times are incredibly difficult to speak about and I know for sure that it is not my place to write officially on such extreme matters. My voice has always been through my artwork and the tensionContinue reading “Speechless”

As my time as a student in Aberystwyth School of Art draws to an end I have spent some time reflecting on my experiences here. I am hesitant to write an emotional outpouring about all my trials and tribulations. University has been tough, but not in the ways I thought it might. My main fearsContinue reading “Overview”