Cate - Just Diving In

A lesson in doodling to help develop drawing skills. Originally created for my year 8 class.

The (in)accessibility of Language

Year 8 Art lesson SurrealismLesson_Year8

UCA Farnham MA Fine Art Grad Show is open all this week :)

Blue filters over the harsh lights add to the mood.

MA_Show_Escalator_FINAL - Transition and the Ordinary. A film about the everyday.

A free bird leaps on the back of the wind    and floats downstream    till the current ends and dips his wing in the orange sun rays and dares to claim the sky. But a bird that stalks down his narrow cage can seldom see through his bars of rage his wings are clipped and    his feet are tied so he opens his throat to sing. The caged bird sings    with a fearful trill    of things unknown    but longed for still    and his tune is heard    on the distant hill    for the caged bird    sings of freedom. The free bird thinks of another breeze and the trade winds soft through the sighing trees and the fat worms waiting on a dawn bright lawn and he names the sky his own But a caged bird stands on the grave of dreams    his shadow shouts on a nightmare scream    his wings are clipped and his feet are tied    so he opens his throat to sing. The caged bird sings    with a fearful trill    of things unknown    but longed for still    and his tune is heard    on the distant hill    for the caged bird    sings of freedom.

Turquoise on the Escalator. I wanted to capture the idea of floating and movement separate from the moving escalator.

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The Escalator

Escalator

Part of a series looking at ordinary places. The escalator - just an ordinary scene. Experienced every day by a million people. 

Exhibition of current work with fellow MA students showing at Platform One, Wandsworth Common Station until 16th July.

(CateField) Experimental sound sketch evoking the chill of a city in the early hours of the morning. All sounds were recorded at Waterloo Station during the morning rush hour. Sounds have been sampled and manipulated using Audacity and Garage Band

I have a positive view of the world (I’ve been criticised for this too). I believe that humans are largely kind, friendly and helpful. (By the way, I work in Education and have worked in Social Services :)). I am no Pollyanna, skipping around pretending that everything is amazing all the time, but I do enter new experiences with an outlook of wonder and delight, and so I make no apologies for the optimism and beauty in my work. This is who I am.

Trains, people and time. Transition and ordinary life. ‘The unrecognised, that is the everyday, still has some surprises in store for us’ Lefebvre, 1998