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Featured artist: Jina Wallwork

Diane — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 10:06:37 +0000

Featured artist: Jina Wallwork

Jina Wallwork describes herself as a artist who was born with a unique perception that some would refer to as mysticism or clairvoyance. She says this spiritual influence is something that greatly impacts her art. Jina Wallwork has exhibited artwork in galleries across the world with such names as Jeff Koons, Yoko Ono and Grayson Perry. Read more about artist Jina Wallwork on how-to-be-a-fine-artist.com...

Featured artist: Martin Lau

Diane — Fri, 31 Dec 2010 11:18:15 +0000

Featured artist: Martin Lau

Martin Lau is an artist working primarily in photography. He has also worked in film, sculpture and assemblage. I met him at the Total Transparency show at the NO:ID gallery in London, where viewers got to see his underpants... Read more about photographer Martin Lau on how-to-be-a-fine-artist.com...

Featured artist: Diana Shepherd

Diane — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 21:22:39 +0000

Diana Shepherd went to university as a mature student and finished in 2001. She describes herself as “very lucky” to go practically straight into a school as an artist in residence for the next 9 years.

During this time she co-founded a visual art organisation with her fellow A.I.R Stephen Coley. They now have two studios, one based in her home town of Long Eaton (Charles Abbey Workshops) and the second as artist in residence at the Arboretum Park, Derby.

I met her at her exhibition in Derby, when she took part in the Art in Empty Shops scheme.

Featured artist: Stephen Coley

Diane — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 09:06:09 +0000

Featured artist: Stephen Coley

I first met Stephen Coley during an exhibition in Derby as part of the art in empty shops scheme. After wasting rather too many years in a metalwork factory, Stephen Coley went to study Fine Art at Derby University. He left in 2001 and co-founded the visual arts organisation Artblock. For the last 9 years, he has been working as a freelance artist, creating and exhibiting his artwork, undertaking commissions and delivering workshops at schools and colleges... Read more about artist Stephen Coley on how-to-be-a-fine-artist.com...

Featured artist: Anji Jackson-Main

Diane — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 13:24:09 +0000

Featured artist: Anji Jackson-Main

I came across Anji Jackson-Main during her exhibition at The Shop, in Cambridge, UK.

Anji is currently studying a Master of Fine Arts at Cambridge School of Art.

Her work is immediately engaging and she is easy to talk to. Here is a summary of our conversation about art in general, her paintings, and thoughts about the viewer…. Read more about Anji Jackson-Main on how-to-be-a-fine-artist.com…

Featured artist: Nicholas Stafford-Deitsch

Diane — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 15:48:29 +0000

Featured artist: Nicholas Stafford-Deitsch

Nicholas Stafford-Deitsch has spent a lot of time and effort creating The Toucan Feather, a book he describes as "an allegorical, inspirational novel that reveals a new symbol for people who care about the future of mankind – a sort of timely alternative to the Peace Sign". I asked him to share the ideas behind the book and his illustrations... Read more about Nicholas Stafford-Deitsch on how-to-be-a-fine-artist.com...

Artist Amanda Harker defies expectations

Diane — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 13:35:44 +0000

Featured artists appear on how-to-be-a-fine-artist.com. If you want to showcase your art leave a comment at the end of this post.

Amanda Harker likes to shock, using traditional children’s stories, lace, and embroidery to defy expectations. The viewer, lulled into thinking they are looking at something decorative and ornate, is confronted instead with ideas of obscenity and pornography. In her words, her work “mirrors the multi-layered perceptions of women”.

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Finger
Part of a series of cross-stitch embroidery based on found graffiti

Amy is
Graffiti takes on a new light in cross-stitch form.

Suck

Wanchor

Jason is a prat

Etchings on glass
Lace etchings on traditional Cyprian windows incorporate images of women.

Etchings on glass
What is hiding among the lace?

Cyprus Windows
Windows illustrate the multi-layers of seeing.

Cyprus Windows
Looking through windows can be an invasion of personal space.

Cyprus Windows
What is a window? Domesticity?

Little Red Riding Hood
This screen print onto glass illustrates a child's story with darker undertones, showing multi-layered agendas in the story.

Wolf and Woods
Wolf and Woods are part of the story of Little Red Riding Hood.