Just a quick one; a couple of little updates!
| Regular readers of my updates will recall my last exhibition at the Chinese Arts Centre in September, in which I displayed photos from PlaceMaking workshops in the UK and China. Part of the agreement in this collaboration with Tameside College was that the work would also be exhibited in the Art Department’s gallery space on the Ashton campus. That work has now also gone up, so the prints are currently enjoying a brief resurrection through the month of March. If you’re local, you can pop in to the gallery which is situated in the Waterloo building at the site on Beaufort Road, otherwise you can still find all the images and further information about the workshops on the project pages of this site. |  UK PlaceMaking at Tameside College |
With thanks to Dave Bennett for photography and editing
 Tamana Lotus; March 2014; Acrylic on Canvas Board | I also mentioned a new series of photographs recently that came out of my travels last summer. Titled Peaceful Places, they can be purchased as individual prints or as a photobook. These are currently on display at The Earth Café underneath the Manchester Buddhist Centre. Although these images have been something of a tangent from my recent practice, I have enjoyed working with them so much that I was already considering making some paintings from them and having received some very positive feedback from the show at the café I was motivated to produce this new piece. It is a reasonably direct representation of a lotus growing at a Buddhist temple in Japan and I have explored the concept of ‘peace’ further through the application of paint by employing calm, soft, almost meditative brush strokes and trying to stick to a light palette. |
It’s been refreshing to get back into painting, especially as I have come up against a couple of rather frustrating dead ends in pursuing other areas of my recent practice, so while this may be the first painting I have made for a while, I have a feeling it probably won’t be the last!
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