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Emma Stibbon was an artist I had looked at previously but I was informed of her technique through Printmaking today , which was left on my desk, her use of photo etching or gravure, and using the dirt and ash of the landscapes she was in to draw with, are super interesting methods of workng and tie the work more intrinsically together.

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Glenn Tomskinson is a british Printmaker who lives in cumbria, his simple colour aquatints are beautful and the flatness and shapes of the hills he uses are amazing.

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Notes from our presentations, was really useful to know what I was doing right in my practice but also to be asked questions that I should definitly be thinking about, particularly the question of romantacism something that im definitly attached and will change my practice if I lean into or away from, the artists i look at and are inspirations are definitly romantic but I dont know if the baggage (for lack of a better word) that comes with that term is something I want to be considering for my work.

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Norman Ackyroyds talk with Rober Macfarlane changed some of my thiugh process behind my printmaking technique, particulary a quote from ackyroyd ‘the space and form of the negative white space in the print, is more important than the rest of the image’, to think of a print in this way was an eye-opener and moved my practice foward fo the better

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Photos from Eames Fine Art exhbition of Jason Hicklins work, an amazing printmaker, whilst his choice of imagary isnt something Im interested in my own work, its his printmaking technique, his use of sugar bite and open biting is something I want to use in my own work and is a source of inspiration, similiar to norman ackyroyd in that respect, Hicklin being his student.

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Alice Oswald spent years walking the river dart, taking in its history and the people that live and use the river, and wrote down in the form of a long poem from the perspective of the river itself.

Its beautifully written and touches on the simple things of the english countryside and people

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The old ways by Robert Macfarlane has been a big turning point in my studio practice, I found his book through a radio interview on BBC 1 between Macfarlane and Norman Ackroyd, his description of the cultural memories and the real history of the places he visits is endlessy interesting, and his description of the landscapes and people he meets is beautiful. Particularly the Chapter on Scotland, as he travells around the islands of the outer hebrides talking to fisherman and artists, as well as describing the physical/historical and just beauty of the land in wondeful prose.

His description of the history of the of the Icknield way, and the history of the paths across the UK and their significance to our culture.

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Screenshots of explorers sketchbooks from days past, this book was a massive starting point for my current work, featuring not just scans of drawings from famous explorers but also their notes thoughts and stories, this kind of contextual drawing is something that I really want to incoperate into my prints themselves, annotating my prints

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Trip to snowdon , 7 years ago

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Cliffs of Moher in Ireland from a recent visit last year

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Heinz Mack uses metal and glass to built these scultputres that play with your eyes, all seeming to emerge at once with overlapping contradictory shapes.

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Gianni colombo was a massive inspiration from when I visited the gallery in Barcelona, his work is extremely relevant to my own ideas of work, this piece has a huge sense of space liek the work sits in the fabric of spae and could go on infinitly. Its also got depth like layers ontop of layers. He also work in 3-d dimensioanl space, something I want to try myself, and working with kinetic sculptures.

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Pol Bury, is a sculpture who works in the geometric as well as the manipulation of photography, his work is on more than one plane. He distorts the depth of the shape of the architecture, like a computer glitch like things are collapsing in on themselves, but he also has these conecntric circles that are like focus points for the distortion.

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Alberto Biasi, has almost computer generated imagery, and gives his polygonal shapes a sense of depth and space, It almost seems ona  different plane like its coming forth from being the lines.

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Italian Artist Dadamaino, was a member of the avante-garde art movemtn in milan, a few of her works were on display at the gallery in Barcelona. This work called the movement of things was especially interesting, it has a sense of movment on a 2-d plan and made up of jsut line work. Theres a certain sense of space in the work that I loved, as your eyes glaze over the work the lines seem to shift and undulate.

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During a visit to Barcelona in january, my girlfriend and I visited Casa Mila a house built by cantonese architect Gaudi whilst there bottom floor was transformed into gallery that was focused on kintetic art and op art from over 30 international artists, the works were especailly relevant to my practice, there isnt a good list of the artists exhbiiting and the artwork didnt work nearly as well when photographed though