Studio Visits

Welcome to the group!

Sharing our work and having interesting discourse about areas of strength and areas to improve are so useful but difficult to organise.

This space is for people to ask for a visit and become the Host stating how many people you would like or can accomodate.

The aim is to give constructive feedback about any issue the host may have.

The studio visits can be in person or via video but the main thing is to have space to talk freely about your practice.

There is no hard and fast rule about the organising of studio visits and it may be that it is easier to organise in a whats app group but if you register your interest here then we can start to shape this beautiful beast.

A Critique is a positive experience.

It is NOT Criticism.

We are here to support and lift each other.

These questions will help you consider ways of analysing creative work and help in the studio visits

1. What attracts you to this work? What makes you cross the room to take a closer look? Detail, use of color, drama, movement, materials, pattern, ornament, gesture, visual poetry, repetition, raw emotion, deconstruction, drawing and line.

2. Once you cross the room to view it, does it hold you there? What is it about the work that keeps you looking? Mystery, poetry, finding hidden treasures, a puzzle, a story, innovative use of materials or structure, surfaces, layers, not necessarily having all of the information slapping me in the face, good design, process, skillful craftsmanship and execution, immersive-ness, hauntingly dark, strange anomolies.

3. Does the work introduce a thought, concept, idea and/or make you think on a higher level? Anything that speaks to dreams, time, memory, connection, open-endedness, explanations of personal struggle, redemption, vindication, love, loss, good/evil, hope, life lessons, experience, transcendence, inspiration, imagination

Available to host and visit during the week.

Space for 3 in my studio

Location - Cross Houses

Work to consider - Abstract paintings