Blog of the week – Paul Griffiths
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Paul has recently written a review of a visit he made to an exhibition of prints held at Oriel Wrecsam (Wrexham) through October and November 2012 on his OCA learning blog. You can see the article here. It is not only a comprehensive and well referenced article, but has some great examples of the work included in the exhibition. If you click on the links at the base of the article to go back through his blog you will see that here is a student who is thorough in documenting every aspect of his learning, even taking step by step photos of each stage of producing his prints. He’s only just on section one of his course, so he is definitely one to watch. Printmaking students might learn a lot from looking at what he does, and gain inspiration from his work too! Well done Paul.
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I’m always interested to read blogs from students on disciplines other than mine. I was fascinated to see the sketches that you made Paul and really empathised with your comments (PM1 Part 1-02) regarding how to move on from ‘rather conventional kinds of landscape drawing’. (in many case it’s photography). Such a wonderful phrase concerning how we now experience environment – “that restless contemporary space marked by conflict between ‘romantic’ desire and ‘postmodern’ irony”. If I too can think of landscape as ‘restless’ then maybe I can more easily being to find my own style. I’m looking forward to following your blog and also your travel blog.
Catherine, thanks for this. Sorry not to respond sooner, I have had a nasty cold with the usual consequences for the ability to think. It’s good to get a cross-curricular comment, too. I think that, for too long, I have been content to see my work as fitting into certain categories (although I have several of those) and need to think seriously about what I can achieve in future. How serious an artist do I think I am? So where I shall land (restlessly) in that ‘restless space’ is far from decided. Thanks again, Paul.
Your welcome Paul. Just out of interest, what do you mean by ‘serious’?
Catherine, funnily enough, after posting my reply, I did pause to regret having said ‘seriuos(ly)’. What I mainly mean is that there is a sense in which, in my mid-60s and after 40+ years of making art, I’m not entirely content with how far I have got, what I have achieved. ‘Seriously’ is, then, a cloak and disguise for personal anxiety. Paul.
Many thanks for the kind comments. It is always useful to obtain feedback on one’s work.