tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82743781121908261212024-03-11T08:08:40.632+00:00Jess Egan ArtJesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17930908566982043802noreply@blogger.comBlogger72125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8274378112190826121.post-45894088743297949182023-07-12T22:43:00.002+00:002023-07-12T22:43:59.377+00:00Paintings on Paper <p>Having a bit of fun taking advantage of some studio space I am working on with the Yeovil Creatives in advance of Somerset Open Studios in September.</p><p>Really appreciate being able to take these into a different context and step back from them a bit.</p><p>The large pieces are on this lovely roll of Fabriano paper I've got, perfect for working big but not necessarily taking up the space of a canvas in the studio at home. </p><p>The blue painting is really inspired by seaswimming and following up that urge to try and capture the perfect experience being submerged by saltwater, the sun shining and the water calm and clear.</p><p>I've come to really enjoy painting on paper, it's a different mindset because I love the movement and texture of canvas but this is a growing part of my work process. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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We can't always control the amount of time we get to do 'our own thing'. I am conscious of the many job roles I have in life and I am extremely lucky to hold those various roles but I/we definitely function better when we have taken time to answer something like this. </p><p>It might not be obvious but a lot of the art I make is based around a consideration on 'Time', the concept of it, the feel of it, how we witness it through nature and our place in it and on a practical level my work reflects it in the processes and projects I manage to fit into life, like paintings on paper, small clay pieces and playful mark making. </p><p>I don't work well when I am not making. I learnt this lesson the long way around. I try to make sure I have small achievable pieces alongside the bigger paintings and concepts I attempt and working amazing jobs like Yeovil Art Space, Art For Memory and of course 'Mother'.</p><p>This week feels like I got the balance right and I think it might have started with taking 5 minutes to answer a calling to go and lie on the ground. What are you doing today or tomorrow to make sure you answer that call? </p><p>This felt like a poignant thing to think about so I have brought this article from my Instagram page to here and I hadn't realised how long it had been since my last blog!</p><p>Will aim to post again soon : - )</p><p><br /></p><p>P.S. some images here are paintings on paper going up in the Yeovil Creatives members space with Yeovil Art Space, more on these in another post xx</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYfPORMjDYNLvYMkR2J8OuTKBtNMqEBheMA90YQyhljyeqQ-kX9R6cqqqLExcI2B-RK6Bkq5_y8NfAR8YkB66uj4k9bkOUGNaSnUBaC921BhwSriMf-K2URcNxHV7qyZ3FwdhRKW-T_Si_otIVMxKarflz2Xch9-Cshm7qdvZLqJEMSWhVudf96_ZTeuin/s1800/IMG_20230707_162607_805.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1800" data-original-width="1440" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYfPORMjDYNLvYMkR2J8OuTKBtNMqEBheMA90YQyhljyeqQ-kX9R6cqqqLExcI2B-RK6Bkq5_y8NfAR8YkB66uj4k9bkOUGNaSnUBaC921BhwSriMf-K2URcNxHV7qyZ3FwdhRKW-T_Si_otIVMxKarflz2Xch9-Cshm7qdvZLqJEMSWhVudf96_ZTeuin/s320/IMG_20230707_162607_805.jpg" width="256" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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I will be joined throughout the week by other artists also taking the opportunity to carve out some focussed time in a specific place and to see what they can learn or discover about their practice.</p><p>I am busy planning materials and threads of thought to follow and interrogate and prominent in my studio as I gather equipment are these four little studies made after my last visit to the area. Layering up mixed media (charcoal, acrylic, ink and oil pastel) and developing on site drawings into paintings, I used colour and mixed with mediums I haven't touched for some time, ones that I am not currently comfortable with and actually I really appreciated the fresh perspective.</p><p>I may not make work that looks like this next week, but I will think about lessons learnt, the freedom of play and the challenge of being outside my comfort zone.</p><p>And so with beach huts plans and experiments I also present current finished works. I am delighted to share a selection of paintings currently hanging in a collective exhibition with the Yeovil Creatives at the Octagon Theatre. Night Light, Tempest, I'll Wait and Held in the land are all for sale and can be viewed in the theatre gallery space until the end of April. </p><p>It is interesting to observe the cycles of discovery, experiments, development and 'finishing'. 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I have been delivering some of my paintings up to the very lovely restaurant at The Elms Farmhouse Kitchen. It is such a gorgeous space and I am really delighted to have a collection of my work on the walls there. My larger paintings 'Dartmoor Beyond' and 'Submerged' really pop on the darker paintwork and this fireplace gives the perfect setting for 'Travel Hopefully'. I was also interested to see how my selection of paintings, which often theme around the distant horizon, echo the beautiful Dorset landscape in which the restaurant is set.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj10TJkoms6OKxchEitg0krZZNcE2F-dapm_jT_sJ3SAUhbQEWBLfcabsI68B6GNwEdJOXVBS0lxR2xb-EZi0pNx4pWiSlvXSwN4Nj2so0rH2kAXmASZlzKVAMf3sDFOtUBTvpmXIbnOkOf65DtlImrGg4az_UKWUe4XTNGBM2Az_k8PfSYurynEnRTgA/s3456/Jess%20Egan%20Artist%20'Travel%20Hopefully'.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="3456" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj10TJkoms6OKxchEitg0krZZNcE2F-dapm_jT_sJ3SAUhbQEWBLfcabsI68B6GNwEdJOXVBS0lxR2xb-EZi0pNx4pWiSlvXSwN4Nj2so0rH2kAXmASZlzKVAMf3sDFOtUBTvpmXIbnOkOf65DtlImrGg4az_UKWUe4XTNGBM2Az_k8PfSYurynEnRTgA/s320/Jess%20Egan%20Artist%20'Travel%20Hopefully'.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5_ZdLYTN7Rc6L5GbHwzQH42W2pipAtRjPrR6JfEnFQTZWUOa2JOQDsFqpC28N2MdogXGU-UwmLKt70XmX3lSSid-0qxsbDIDTPKpjsALPy0au_U3FUy8vcfwwdvfAnJB5mq8M2nfrNGP86HSUZgXcVz1vaieEZ9TIIGXwA3tPco3P6vfdoxJiyz6oCg/s3088/20210429_191428.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3088" data-original-width="3088" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5_ZdLYTN7Rc6L5GbHwzQH42W2pipAtRjPrR6JfEnFQTZWUOa2JOQDsFqpC28N2MdogXGU-UwmLKt70XmX3lSSid-0qxsbDIDTPKpjsALPy0au_U3FUy8vcfwwdvfAnJB5mq8M2nfrNGP86HSUZgXcVz1vaieEZ9TIIGXwA3tPco3P6vfdoxJiyz6oCg/w200-h200/20210429_191428.jpg" width="200" /></a>Moon Drawings. I have just updated this site with my <a href="https://www.jesseganart.com/p/moon.html" target="_blank">2022 Moon drawings</a> and thought it was about time I added a blog post about them. The last couple of years have seen me becoming more and more obsessed with the moon and the night sky. Through all the strange experiences we had since the pandemic unfolded in 2020 I looked for the Moon as a way of connecting with something outside of our home confinements, or as a kind of natural marker of time passing and even as a companion. Actually I have always sought it's presence, appreciated it's beauty. As I child my grandmother presented me with an embroidered sampler which contained the words 'The moon doth with delight, Look round her when the heavens are bare' from a Wordsworth poem which fascinated me. The Moon has always symbolised something special.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrGet3yYudo7N2x63N4SDDNdqUElxWimyx5xchjy3rV9LDcjjtLEASckJyb4bVpWSBF3Fc1BwJ74OpHfi0bE001C2VLCb2ciwuQxw9imkXI0nTxg2Xyl8k6cnMHfeOX9qEs3N0zRxOOpgAcRVWeRUOeZZsqk-PtT5C7GyXQeoATytzXU_Ai7oyhvxIxg/s1080/IMG_20210726_220539_653.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; display: inline !important; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrGet3yYudo7N2x63N4SDDNdqUElxWimyx5xchjy3rV9LDcjjtLEASckJyb4bVpWSBF3Fc1BwJ74OpHfi0bE001C2VLCb2ciwuQxw9imkXI0nTxg2Xyl8k6cnMHfeOX9qEs3N0zRxOOpgAcRVWeRUOeZZsqk-PtT5C7GyXQeoATytzXU_Ai7oyhvxIxg/w200-h200/IMG_20210726_220539_653.jpg" width="200" /></a>In 2020 I kind of stepped up my interest and with an increase in need for some therapeutic mark making I had an idea for a project, it was around June/July at the time and I wished I had thought of it earlier at beginning of the year which would have somehow felt neater. I had other projects on the go so I sketched out a few ideas, waited, and from January 2021, heading into a second lockdown, I began. I effectively made a promise to myself that I would at least once a month set time aside to take joy in some abstract drawing, take a moment to reflect and pursue a line of celestial enquiry and know that little by little I would be making art, even if the rest of life had been taken over. I decided to return to the simple but powerful circle, set myself some small guidelines and honour each passing full moon with a drawing. The guidelines being ink and pencil only, start with a compass drawn circle and the surface could vary. Sometimes I had a plan of what to draw and sometimes I just gave in to the spontaneous.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_CCjM-BdfVVFz_R1bRn92y3kVHfo2Ohsa3qBZB9xYCyfVTyhYw11v3V2w3Ov6O1mybs8tIgWL3NWss1g2K_DNEIDLnqtMZ7iDSomj0zVwqq0G8rA4EVzh2EvSmfXDBxGcK6GoSqhs4qPtjwF2gWXV6m62SPeoLoP7q7KtYToCtX-9qOf1u1-8YZz5ew/s1080/IMG_20210726_220539_647.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_CCjM-BdfVVFz_R1bRn92y3kVHfo2Ohsa3qBZB9xYCyfVTyhYw11v3V2w3Ov6O1mybs8tIgWL3NWss1g2K_DNEIDLnqtMZ7iDSomj0zVwqq0G8rA4EVzh2EvSmfXDBxGcK6GoSqhs4qPtjwF2gWXV6m62SPeoLoP7q7KtYToCtX-9qOf1u1-8YZz5ew/w200-h200/IMG_20210726_220539_647.jpg" width="200" /></a></div>Interestingly the premise of these drawings had come from the same principles as my grids for the Somerset Reacquainted project which also began in 2020 but I hadn't really thought about them being linked until I came to put a body of work together for the 'Time and Tide' exhibition in summer 2022. Looking at my notes in these early sketchbook pages I see words like; Numerology, Geometry, Measurement, A point of reflection, A learning and understanding throughout the year. The grids are a gathering of moments and colour, looking and recording and developing. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Both the Moons and the Grids are occupied with a marking of time, a promise of personal reflection and learning and ultimately pursuing a connection to ourselves and our surroundings both intimately and universally. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghzfInJqq6ZMlUmuzaHH92eFxLaI0rQBwgag3o4DPEXjWcWN4dsoL0USxY13Fp4P8HtHBEve3FBzu4pGS7mDGid58vGDwngMOS1E3w8GEhBvGQEnyG6ENJpiY0mY4ue_qQVn7Y5I0xeK8XpiRkhZwOfvgMT553oaVfCq4mcmJMcz2NA5e1U54XGkOXcA/s3456/Wolf%20Moon%20Monday%2017th%20January%202022.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; 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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The Octagon Theatre, Yeovil - 12th May until 20th June</span><span style="font-size: 13pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">This collection
of paintings and drawings are the results of creative exploration into my
environment and experiences in the last three years. Drawing on memories and emotional responses I
translate my encounters<span style="color: red;"> </span>in daily life and with
the natural world through abstract, expressive work. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: right;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgF4LNLDmW8OWaBxw9VVXU2IewJ0sCW-z0kU19az_UwZ8tm-bOpEWlYYT8arSMJ46K6nQV6Yd9Hk2AEYrK3Q1_y_LMcuXH_BG6ExZIZSrfTm9ih8QeOxmbPv-oiKqhlsSGYyWvNf6fL6nwc7uYN55xELSWd0IVXtAKk5hnkHCMQe1aNaJOq0577G7d6WQ/s4032/IMG_4139.HEIC" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="185" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgF4LNLDmW8OWaBxw9VVXU2IewJ0sCW-z0kU19az_UwZ8tm-bOpEWlYYT8arSMJ46K6nQV6Yd9Hk2AEYrK3Q1_y_LMcuXH_BG6ExZIZSrfTm9ih8QeOxmbPv-oiKqhlsSGYyWvNf6fL6nwc7uYN55xELSWd0IVXtAKk5hnkHCMQe1aNaJOq0577G7d6WQ/w247-h185/IMG_4139.HEIC" width="247" /></a></div><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In this exhibition this comes predominantly
through abstract seascape and landscape paintings, capturing in paint my return to
places of special significance after the lockdown times, but also comes
alongside a series of experimental drawings, made in response to the lunar
calendar throughout 2021.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Observing this natural marker of time, I am
sharing a way in which the moon has become companion, and a reminder of taking
a moment to reflect on many things including for me the value of drawing and
pausing for a calm moment. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The drawings
also recognise the passage of time and the reconnections many people have made
to the natural world in recent years and how this connects us on a wider level.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjC6kz46KOtC0Rorx16vM_ZcpS4wllOcfZGgh_ZbQeb_mwhUWZQw92lpZEyKKSt52jRzLcoWlYmrMbOaqVAm4vkRRwJc8MIzyPknXV0mZnqM8My64DKDxvYQOrjzKOzG8ynGA6jSeRwPu7VApXyF41cYM2wgYHO2prhI8gBfZQ5wICcnrElhkLRG5TUqA/s2118/Jess%20Egan%20-%20Morning%20Landscape%20-%20Acrylic%20Painting%20on%20Canvas.%20large%20file.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2118" data-original-width="2118" height="247" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjC6kz46KOtC0Rorx16vM_ZcpS4wllOcfZGgh_ZbQeb_mwhUWZQw92lpZEyKKSt52jRzLcoWlYmrMbOaqVAm4vkRRwJc8MIzyPknXV0mZnqM8My64DKDxvYQOrjzKOzG8ynGA6jSeRwPu7VApXyF41cYM2wgYHO2prhI8gBfZQ5wICcnrElhkLRG5TUqA/w247-h247/Jess%20Egan%20-%20Morning%20Landscape%20-%20Acrylic%20Painting%20on%20Canvas.%20large%20file.jpg" width="247" /></a></div><br /></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"></p><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Paintings in this
exhibition are directly inspired by many places in the South West, not
depicting exact locations but all representative of experience and reflecting
on time spent by the ocean in Dorset and Cornwall or travelling across the
land.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>‘Winters Morning’ began the series
of larger paintings after a crisp and sunny morning walk through the lanes of village
of East Coker, and ‘Submerged’ and ‘Under’ are responses to the powerful but
soothing solace of sea swimming at Hive Beach and West Bay.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am recharged, as are many of us, by big
skies and light and aim to share this with the viewer.</span><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The work is
created often in my home studio surrounded by sketches, photographs and items
gathered from my walks, I record colours and motifs and compositions, but I
like to explore intuitively using the application of paint.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The process is important to me, the physicality of mark making, and so
my work is often abstract as it takes the original focus into an emotional
experience.</span></p><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEht7_OfNG7Yg8sSLdfKXNm0fNsNRjr65Z3AH_xYJTpBGwITa_xyIEOiqN-DYRP1aK81Y_APJ48dNnCps_9R1nNhtIb2EfNGyZ0NZmrOJrttPuCSwM85eByRYDYmlp37Hy6ZGStMR3CC0BB8ci6rus6iraa07CFp0Il77UEP_eVyvmApgrNxyc1BuU7QAQ/s3024/IMG_4174.HEIC" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; display: inline !important; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="3024" height="151" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEht7_OfNG7Yg8sSLdfKXNm0fNsNRjr65Z3AH_xYJTpBGwITa_xyIEOiqN-DYRP1aK81Y_APJ48dNnCps_9R1nNhtIb2EfNGyZ0NZmrOJrttPuCSwM85eByRYDYmlp37Hy6ZGStMR3CC0BB8ci6rus6iraa07CFp0Il77UEP_eVyvmApgrNxyc1BuU7QAQ/w151-h151/IMG_4174.HEIC" width="151" /></a><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The series of grid
artworks are a painterly response to a digital process i.e. moments captured in
time by photographs on my phone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
photograph every day, many different aspects of my life, a mild obsession to
record and remember.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Collecting them and
transforming them in this way began with the ‘Somerset Reacquainted’ project in
2020 and I this has developed into further work.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They are an exercise into mark making,
meditation and mindful noticing. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am
compelled to paint seascapes and landscapes but also recognise the need to
translate abstract thought, explore concepts around time and use these
compulsions to better my wellbeing and seek to inspire that in others.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJq9U8Y3jyleDLzKMcKaFJOZVg_PvGeQc0C-PyySRgtC-zs3nBtZS8TQHRaZmusjUbFBsuZ8atsX5uTKpNrOOeBEV29JcmcT-U-IhGvOwSUF23v-SNm-DDhG6hQAOdVImZ7sgNm5VOcukXPRmR21SPm2QX1h_b4aYCvtFswWXMeGXKkEhhjv1e-xWymw/s3024/IMG_4171.HEIC" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="3024" height="186" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJq9U8Y3jyleDLzKMcKaFJOZVg_PvGeQc0C-PyySRgtC-zs3nBtZS8TQHRaZmusjUbFBsuZ8atsX5uTKpNrOOeBEV29JcmcT-U-IhGvOwSUF23v-SNm-DDhG6hQAOdVImZ7sgNm5VOcukXPRmR21SPm2QX1h_b4aYCvtFswWXMeGXKkEhhjv1e-xWymw/w186-h186/IMG_4171.HEIC" width="186" /> </a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKottYXeUyhqB3dB9gAIMdTEFthCgjIjvskPmdJtBMzE9fC0bISLDQll0d6lqmmLJ6ydQiwmEFh924JZO4Lwj_FyI7RMEAfEbobZUIGzyCKBWC-un9EwClQ8X_uZVcbPTmodRqOiNi2HmD9_ihJeyP1Y1tjtfQAWrFaC_0zMHKwHiFf5S3PwB4we8nNA/s3024/IMG_4184.HEIC" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="3024" height="187" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKottYXeUyhqB3dB9gAIMdTEFthCgjIjvskPmdJtBMzE9fC0bISLDQll0d6lqmmLJ6ydQiwmEFh924JZO4Lwj_FyI7RMEAfEbobZUIGzyCKBWC-un9EwClQ8X_uZVcbPTmodRqOiNi2HmD9_ihJeyP1Y1tjtfQAWrFaC_0zMHKwHiFf5S3PwB4we8nNA/w187-h187/IMG_4184.HEIC" width="187" /></a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiczJ2cCvL8LVMOqQ6Dj7uWYEpOKy8w47bGUjHNDbSzrc-7ZOSKUN1PLlYhpUYfhthK_wJfvipByHfe0mxYqq45SEA8NvRBPD7enyQKpqex5yAP48KdpleUpfWyrjxOVmL--eQwsfUKfnThTnLVUN1nEAp_nzqOD9TtvBgE_ebYIrZRKSDfwoX6BsJ6AQ/s3024/IMG_4185.HEIC" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; display: inline !important; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="3024" height="188" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiczJ2cCvL8LVMOqQ6Dj7uWYEpOKy8w47bGUjHNDbSzrc-7ZOSKUN1PLlYhpUYfhthK_wJfvipByHfe0mxYqq45SEA8NvRBPD7enyQKpqex5yAP48KdpleUpfWyrjxOVmL--eQwsfUKfnThTnLVUN1nEAp_nzqOD9TtvBgE_ebYIrZRKSDfwoX6BsJ6AQ/w188-h188/IMG_4185.HEIC" width="188" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlQo2tq5RBpoJRc9ooxaz68OYeDz_naVpp96OLUAiZyuPiE3t7pR5o-shNY1ZyPGxFmXK06nY2OIVKI7W7ddvk3aeUzH7guNh2xaKZaewEOqv7XQ42nOlS7-5g2BqNf_EdtKnZqep_6isdnjyGB81qcmVMx9Gzm8C39uVqyW12nsM_FsfsqKP1mQ1PXQ/s4032/IMG_4142.HEIC" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><br /></a></div><p></p></div>Jesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17930908566982043802noreply@blogger.com0Somerset, UK51.105097 -2.926230722.794863163821155 -38.0824807 79.415330836178839 32.2300193tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8274378112190826121.post-17295605349413236612022-05-11T08:56:00.005+00:002022-05-11T08:56:38.783+00:00Time and Tide - Solo Exhibition at The Octagon Theatre<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZT1XQmKtw7jK0eHnQ9aMC03VSsmAqTfDu8nQno9kzq1jbLT_97bVnIhs0bZCZtVoB2T_lknR2uFsoWhGaIH8qm5eQBIGag0L2MVh4_-fC98RMSDOiUhPDsBUBGM0uoKYctyLUwzroBP56oZkga_dW0GGK4e8i7Rcach4tR-woNY7ccOA7dd4fWlkf-Q/s2000/Time%20and%20tide.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2000" data-original-width="1414" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZT1XQmKtw7jK0eHnQ9aMC03VSsmAqTfDu8nQno9kzq1jbLT_97bVnIhs0bZCZtVoB2T_lknR2uFsoWhGaIH8qm5eQBIGag0L2MVh4_-fC98RMSDOiUhPDsBUBGM0uoKYctyLUwzroBP56oZkga_dW0GGK4e8i7Rcach4tR-woNY7ccOA7dd4fWlkf-Q/s320/Time%20and%20tide.png" width="226" /></a></div><p>I am really proud to announce the opening of my first solo art exhibition at The Octagon Theatre in Yeovil. The venue is open for visitors Mon-Sat 10-5 and there will be a Meet the Artist event on Saturday June 11th 10am-12noon.</p><p>"Emerging
artist Jess Egan presents an uplifting collection of paintings and drawings
produced in the last three years.
Drawing on memories and her emotional responses the artist translates
her experiences of daily life and encounters with the natural world through
abstract, expressive work." </p><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">More information to follow soon!</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><br /></span></span></p>Jesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17930908566982043802noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8274378112190826121.post-42457279651722854932022-05-09T09:30:00.000+00:002022-05-09T09:30:15.061+00:00Drawing and Painting The Beach Hut Residency<p>Sharing here much of the things I made during my residency x</p><p>Using warm up drawing exercises like continuous line enabled me to 'get going' and I discovered a looseness and satisfying watery feel in the marks.</p><p>I gave myself plenty of options with surface, from canvas to loose sheets, sketchbook and concertina and learnt more about my materials in terms of what works for me on a portable level and am increasingly realising a love for mixed media and layering in my drawing - Pencil, Pen, Ink, Watercolour, a little pastel have all had roles to play and I enjoy learning their effects.</p><p>I have also really enjoyed indulging by desire to record and document, taking many photographs and note taking, gathering a plethora of information and experience to 'mine' for future work. I haven't shared everything here, there is too much! But please enjoy a scroll through the below images capturing my lovely week.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-1pxKRm5nrfEAIPZTNa4SOS6uZmcyVfe3j3gA3o3RsGV4l9nB6AtBD5JIXrbwXcHKB8LHuvyHfozdIStz4nKDpL2HspR2dED4SOpTJNVkEeYJA-PZZv_HSy0U0yUNoMWfVanf_JjsrbTtkuT1xTEQ_QwpvtR3Et22V4EjY9BSb4wHKLVBdNQeKSNBfQ/s4000/Jess%20Egan%20-%20concertina%20drawing%20-%20Lyme%20Regis%202022%20.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3000" data-original-width="4000" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-1pxKRm5nrfEAIPZTNa4SOS6uZmcyVfe3j3gA3o3RsGV4l9nB6AtBD5JIXrbwXcHKB8LHuvyHfozdIStz4nKDpL2HspR2dED4SOpTJNVkEeYJA-PZZv_HSy0U0yUNoMWfVanf_JjsrbTtkuT1xTEQ_QwpvtR3Et22V4EjY9BSb4wHKLVBdNQeKSNBfQ/s320/Jess%20Egan%20-%20concertina%20drawing%20-%20Lyme%20Regis%202022%20.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">4 x 6 cm when closed</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><br /></div>Jesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17930908566982043802noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8274378112190826121.post-68344742294203971212022-05-08T08:36:00.002+00:002022-05-08T08:36:31.476+00:00The Beach Hut Residency<div style="text-align: left;">One week, in March, in a beach hut. At my nearest local seaside town of Lyme Regis. A self funded residency. With the most unexpectedly sunny and dry week of March. I started the week in three jumpers and woolly socks and ended it in shorts and flip flops. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgi4fzF6ZWOQ6S-CHOH0REgLqAZe8qmfnUjnbz5qHFV0E4FFZLLB0bUG4EW0UoW9Sl7WGUQFeoVjtiF5Bq8Kl-NvE74yEU7u8RKsQBaGzU-TQQ73v25IUutHR9GbKVDWVtfrZ1t2rSiR8tiv1k_6qNzU5FAOlEe7NmIR0Tbwk0lzzMAHNpF4wNqA5pZ8A/s3088/PSX_20220325_181823.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3088" data-original-width="3088" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgi4fzF6ZWOQ6S-CHOH0REgLqAZe8qmfnUjnbz5qHFV0E4FFZLLB0bUG4EW0UoW9Sl7WGUQFeoVjtiF5Bq8Kl-NvE74yEU7u8RKsQBaGzU-TQQ73v25IUutHR9GbKVDWVtfrZ1t2rSiR8tiv1k_6qNzU5FAOlEe7NmIR0Tbwk0lzzMAHNpF4wNqA5pZ8A/s320/PSX_20220325_181823.jpg" width="320" /></a></div></div><div style="text-align: left;">I was unsure about undertaking this exercise. Over the last couple of years I have become more intrigued by the concept of residencies, immersive experiences. We have been in an unsteady world where our schedules may be even harder to align and after some discussion with other artists realised that a self planned, self funded artist residency could be a valid course of action. I investigated various options last year and then realised this idea had been staring at me every time we visited our nearby seaside town of Lyme Regis. Always appealing but I just hadn't clicked the huts with my art practice and it turns out they are quite affordable in the off peak seasons.</div><div><br /></div><div>I am delighted I took on the experience. I planned, learnt, communicated, reflected and enriched my art practice.</div><div><br /></div><div>I kind of decided before I went that there would be no rules, I took as much as I could in the way of materials, I wanted to experiment and play, and with my little beach hut studio I had everything at my fingertips.</div><div><br /></div><div>The week served to remind me of my creative voice, my independence, my curiosity. I reminded myself how important it is to make this time, for my art practice, because it's harder without practice. Creating everyday is vital, observing, noticing responding, making. I hope to embrace the the dual complexity and simplicity of artmaking and of nature. The energy of what is around us is too important and beautiful to not try and capture in some way and it gives me solace. </div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: right;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLSNE-QZ-dPK_7eixcHAuGOK85kPPOST297rmL8OMmc1TR2m04wWMQlw7eNhMrOwgIdxwqwm6ombAluztEco5JSP9hHCsdBAGegpx0BH2br1eHnMDoMh7LPn_8aje9l5aSHFcOQ1zJNBvbJRDShmmwfvsxP7PYuRDxEnmfc34_HRBWqQxqYStz8ZNuTQ/s1080/IMG_20220321_191302_044.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="810" data-original-width="1080" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLSNE-QZ-dPK_7eixcHAuGOK85kPPOST297rmL8OMmc1TR2m04wWMQlw7eNhMrOwgIdxwqwm6ombAluztEco5JSP9hHCsdBAGegpx0BH2br1eHnMDoMh7LPn_8aje9l5aSHFcOQ1zJNBvbJRDShmmwfvsxP7PYuRDxEnmfc34_HRBWqQxqYStz8ZNuTQ/s320/IMG_20220321_191302_044.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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What! This year has been busy in some of the best ways and I have worked on my website but obviously not as thoroughly as I thought :-) So perhaps that will be a good intention for 2022, but, in the meantime, while I plan all the things I would like to write about and show here on the blog I will show you some pictures of a little sketchbook I made for a holiday we had recently in Cornwall. We manage to get down there most years in some way or another but this was the first time it was just my little family booking a holiday on our own and we stayed a few nights in Penzance, focusing on coastal views, favourite places, galleries and a long overdue visit to St.Ives, it was bliss.</p><p>I prepared a few things to take away with me to scribble in and on but I am quite proud of this little art object. When I hold it in my hands and feel the paper it takes me right back to sitting on the wall of the harbour side in St.Ives with seagulls flying around, the crowds behind me, with just my materials and the harbour and the sea in my own little bubble. I had created a cover for the concertina in ink beforehand so when I got back it seemed right to add to the fineliner sketches with more loosely applied ink. I'm a bit in love with Quink at the moment and am enjoying the atmosphere it can create and the changes in its colour as it dries ❤ so more on ink another time as well.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-tMbfPO7PQ4k/YZ1e-Oe8HlI/AAAAAAAAmu4/vkmVGH8UTFECakTsmymv2BZByBSz_uhMQCLcBGAsYHQ/s1080/IMG_20211117_093539_298.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="256" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-tMbfPO7PQ4k/YZ1e-Oe8HlI/AAAAAAAAmu4/vkmVGH8UTFECakTsmymv2BZByBSz_uhMQCLcBGAsYHQ/w256-h256/IMG_20211117_093539_298.jpg" width="256" /></a><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-DFRMiTDjJ7I/YZ1e94X-T3I/AAAAAAAAmuw/L7s413acleUtQUBQrc_rQrgBuZkwInmWgCLcBGAsYHQ/s1080/IMG_20211117_093539_320.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; display: inline !important; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="257" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-DFRMiTDjJ7I/YZ1e94X-T3I/AAAAAAAAmuw/L7s413acleUtQUBQrc_rQrgBuZkwInmWgCLcBGAsYHQ/w257-h257/IMG_20211117_093539_320.jpg" width="257" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-6Gn42eSm2-g/YJ5M2-SaNDI/AAAAAAAAlWw/c7LeC1re5MoFg2_hsploV7b4e3ndzpPMACPcBGAYYCw/s2048/Jess%2BEgan%2BArt%2B-%2BResilience%2B-%2BPainting%2BOn%2BCanvas%2B2021.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2047" data-original-width="2048" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-6Gn42eSm2-g/YJ5M2-SaNDI/AAAAAAAAlWw/c7LeC1re5MoFg2_hsploV7b4e3ndzpPMACPcBGAYYCw/s320/Jess%2BEgan%2BArt%2B-%2BResilience%2B-%2BPainting%2BOn%2BCanvas%2B2021.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>When I think about Resilience I think of inner strength, perseverance, power and simultaneously a truth to yourself.<p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">When I really listen to myself and I don't need to be anything else but true, I am here, looking out to sea. I gain strength from the horizon and the vastness of the sky. I am mindful of rock and sand and wind and water and time and my place in all of this. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">The main backdrop to this project is a series of podcasts that artist Natasha Rand has recorded with residents in a local Somerset Care home and with Yeovil elders and carers. The podcasts for me offer a reassurance of experiences from the past and a joy in connecting our generations. A comfort. You can listen to them too at <a href="https://yeovilartspace.uk/together/">www.yeovilartspace.uk/together</a> </p><p style="text-align: justify;">After an exhibition in the Yeovil Art Space with work accumulated through the project, (young peoples groups, writing workshops and, like mine, commissioned artworks from the Yeovil Creatives the individuals who joined the conversation and imparted their life stories as wisdom for the podcast.</p><div><p></p></div>Jesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17930908566982043802noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8274378112190826121.post-65222895754206343122021-05-06T10:07:00.003+00:002022-05-20T17:09:46.964+00:00Somerset Reacquainted grids<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: white; font-family: georgia;"><span style="text-align: left;">The squares really are are back, well, I have been experimenting with them since last summer but in terms of the public eye, they are back. </span></span><span style="color: white; font-family: georgia; text-align: left;">This is the next in a line of several developments for '</span><span style="color: white; font-family: georgia; text-align: left;">Somerset Reacquainted', it's</span><span style="color: white; font-family: georgia;"><span style="text-align: left;"> </span><span style="text-align: left;">a collaborative book initiated and being put together by</span><span style="text-align: left;"> artist N</span>ina Gronw-Lewis<span style="text-align: left;"> </span><span style="text-align: left;">and I'm really happy to have been able to submit a page for it. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: white;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Somerset Reacquainted is a 'creativity in isolation' project initiated by artist Sara Dudman, y</span><span style="font-family: georgia; text-align: left;">ou may recall seeing a previous post where I submitted work with an artist led group, this is the link if you would like to read </span><a href="https://www.jesseganart.com/2020/07/blog-post.html" style="text-align: center;">Somerset Reacquainted July 2020</a>. <span style="font-family: georgia; text-align: left;"> Just over 60 artists were/are involved with everyone submitting work to be shown on Instagram and the S.A.W website, we were then able to have a physical exhibition, when lockdown restrictions were lifted, at the Somerset Rural Life Museum in Glastonbury. A really wonderful collection of art, which really </span><span style="font-family: georgia; text-align: left;">felt like you were exploring the local area and the way the artists worked and what it meant to be in Somerset in an unprecedented lockdown event.</span></span></div><span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Edited"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: georgia;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: white;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: white;">I jumped at the chance to be involved in this new stage, it feels like a very special project and I am encouraged to pursue this line of artistic enquiry with my photographic diary and collages, followed by my watercolour squares.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: white;">I am often inclined to throw more at my artwork, being minimal sometimes doesn't feel like enough, but I like exploring this avenue born out of time in lockdown and to see where it takes me, which is partly what this project is about. This is very much about time and reflection as well as mark making and it has felt very natural and intuitive.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: white;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: white;">I have written some text on the submitted page which is is as follows...</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: white;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: white;">''Marks made in lockdown. Instants, moments, days, weeks, months. Photographs, tiny snaps of creativity caught over Autumn/Winter 2020-21. Thinking a lot about time and how it moves and how it's relative. Daily life minimised and remembered in small squares of watercolour.''</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: white;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: white;">I have also been curious about perception of time and when working on this project I decided to read up a little more about it, I felt particularly caught up by this text from the book 'The Structure of Time' by WH Newton-Smith.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: white;">"Without meaning to be terribly enlightening we might
truthfully say that time is a system of temporal items whereby temporal items
we understand things like instants, moments, durations and so on. This is
unenlightening since, even granting its truth, we are accounting for the
obscure notion of time in terms of the equally if not more obscure notions of
instants, moments, durations. With regard to these temporal items most of us
are, I suspect, rather like Augustine. In non-philosophical moments all is
clear and the permeation of our thought and conversation with reference to
temporal items is no barrier to comprehension. However, we need only ask
ourselves in an idle moment just what instants are for all to seem totally
obscure. For in general any type of item of which we can ostensively
give instances seems less problematic than any type of abstract item about
which we talk without being able to display examples. Temporal items, in virtue
of being abstract items, seem more problematic than items like events,
processes, occurrences and so forth which we think of as being in time. For we
can have experience of items of this latter sort. If, Hume-like, we call up the
impression of a particular moment, we at best produce the faded image of some
event that happened at the moment. Like the Human soul the moment itself
entirely eludes our grasp. Time, then, in virtue of being a system of abstract
temporal items, is a rich source of philosophical perplexity. Consequently, we
expect a satisfactory general account of time to include an account
of what we are talking about when we talk about these temporal items."<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: white;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: white;">Thanks to Sara Dudman, Zoe Li and Somerset Art Works for keeping up the momentum. Please click here for more about the project <a href="https://somersetartworks.org.uk/somersetreacquainted/" style="text-align: left;">Somerset Art Works » Somerset Reacquainted</a></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="color: white; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: white; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-21J5_kd1OFg/YJLIjvav1lI/AAAAAAAAlWM/azviMQM4Yt4s1TiCOPaQAcFm4ZcJnGKEwCPcBGAYYCw/s1080/IMG_20210423_104947_061.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-21J5_kd1OFg/YJLIjvav1lI/AAAAAAAAlWM/azviMQM4Yt4s1TiCOPaQAcFm4ZcJnGKEwCPcBGAYYCw/s320/IMG_20210423_104947_061.jpg" /></a></div><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-9dcD9fOGCds/YJKjZTq00cI/AAAAAAAAlU4/FgkvKAKewsEDmYU3qyXQhzPftSfhaV44gCLcBGAsYHQ/s1080/IMG_20210423_103044_620.jpg" style="clear: left; 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The second in a series of large scale canvases I've been working on.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div>Landscape, wellbeing, creating, markmaking. This piece is 'Over the land', after Dartmoor, one of the most spectacular, striking, romantic, rugged, naturally interesting, historically fascinating places in England. We have visited various parts for many years, with various loved ones for various reasons, and it's always on my list of places to explore more.</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span face="-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></div><span face="-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: white;">Scroll down for a few photos that were part of my source material. It's hard to get good pictures of the painting itself I look forward to showing it later in the year in real life at Yeovil Art Space.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: white;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: white;">Sketchbook Notes on Dartmoor:</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: white;">Wind stricken trees with craggy branches.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: white;">Tactile nature of dry stone walls</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: white;">Lichen</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: white;">Ferns</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: white;">Beautiful words like gorse and heather are considered wild and romantic.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: white;">Purity of the air and colours in the surround give a clarity to my vision that makes me feel grounded and calm and present in the moment...</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: white;">Some of my clearest memories have been on Dartmoor...</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: white;"><span> </span><span> Dandelion heads at 5am</span><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: white;"><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> Moss in Wistmans Wood</span><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: white;"><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> Looking out from Haytor</span><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span><span><span><span style="color: white;"> Stopping to feed my newborn when journeying through.</span><br /></span></span></span></div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span face="-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; 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text-align: center;"></div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-CYH4anNhCJ8/YFhF7On5kuI/AAAAAAAAlNc/tLFD1P7GjNsjpXldtz0Fjzr8fb2ijZC9wCLcBGAsYHQ/s1080/IMG_20210318_165735_182.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-CYH4anNhCJ8/YFhF7On5kuI/AAAAAAAAlNc/tLFD1P7GjNsjpXldtz0Fjzr8fb2ijZC9wCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/IMG_20210318_165735_182.jpg" /></a></div></div><div>A painting about landscape and markmaking, walking and wellbeing, nature and light. Directly responding to an early winter's morning hedgerow walk in my childhood village of East Coker, tentative working title...'One foot in front of the other'... It is one of a series of three immersive canvases 1m x 1m in size.
I've been putting off posting full pictures of this finished painting for a while. </div><div><br /></div><div>When thinking about the landscape, the scale of it and my sense of it. I think about the monumental heights and depths to the miniature size and intricate details in the ground and lifeforms and smaller. <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-IdA9AITl0c8/YFhF77im9eI/AAAAAAAAlNs/fYMeSFsSfp8FyTD9YOT6dW0lLoMFr784gCLcBGAsYHQ/s1080/IMG_20210318_165735_331.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="221" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-IdA9AITl0c8/YFhF77im9eI/AAAAAAAAlNs/fYMeSFsSfp8FyTD9YOT6dW0lLoMFr784gCLcBGAsYHQ/w221-h221/IMG_20210318_165735_331.jpg" width="221" /></a></div></div><p></p><p>It's hard to capture and convey to you through the screen the colours and the marks and layers which seem to change at different times of the day but I don't want to put it off anymore because there is more to share and later this year (all being well) the work will be shown IRL Yeovil Art Space as part of Somerset Art Works Open Studios event which will just be amazing. </p><p><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-OtTGxI1Fndk/YFhF8EvmfPI/AAAAAAAAlN0/Eos8Z_jFJHABTekK388aEFObXNnGNPziwCLcBGAsYHQ/s1080/IMG_20210318_165735_340.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="143" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-OtTGxI1Fndk/YFhF8EvmfPI/AAAAAAAAlN0/Eos8Z_jFJHABTekK388aEFObXNnGNPziwCLcBGAsYHQ/w143-h143/IMG_20210318_165735_340.jpg" width="143" /></a></p><strike style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-kTaGHDBwtEs/YFhF7Mu9eXI/AAAAAAAAlNg/8Ty_8CqwiV0aMBqfo4YCHPgw5mx3X2ebACLcBGAsYHQ/w320-h320/IMG_20210318_165735_229.jpg" title="Jess Egan Painting" width="320" /></strike>This is part of a series of paintings and drawings I have been putting together off the back of the Creative Pathways bursary, which I was awarded from Somerset Art Works last year. It had afforded me the validity and funds and encouragement to explore my practice, the directions I want to go and language I want to use. A springboard point that I am really grateful for, and particularly to SAW associate Zoe Li for the opportunity. <p></p><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><p></p>Jesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17930908566982043802noreply@blogger.com0Somerset, UK51.105097 -2.926230738.02047850862435 -20.504355699999998 64.189715491375651 14.651894299999997tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8274378112190826121.post-48502052469042368772020-12-29T22:44:00.001+00:002020-12-29T22:44:13.670+00:00Work on the wall.<p>From West Bay. 100cm x 80cm. I am giving this painting some wall time in our front room. It was started earlier this year, taking advantage of a large canvas to envelop myself in a familiar and calming seascape when I couldn't be there in person. An indulgence in places that I find grounding, this piece is part of the early stages of a project evolving this year that I am thinking of calling Ways Of Being. I love working on a large scale and working on this made me realise that the Ways of Being Project needs to involve some large canvas work. In late summer I ordered four large canvases at 1mx1m, they arrived in November and I am now enjoying the pull and tussle of projecting my landscapes and associated expressionism onto them, more on these to follow soon. </p><p>At first this painting didn't work out as planned but the loose marks and airiness have become something I love about it so for now it's staying as is. I think it's important to witness our learning curves, to take stock of what works and what doesn't but to also appreciate that our opinions change. In a year where the ebb and flow of creativity is not to be taken for granted I am trying to be increase my practice, to work on terms that are regular and familiar and to not rush to judgements, allowing work to percolate and simmer. </p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ECjxchkkDXU/X-uxG6djWwI/AAAAAAAAlAI/JhkM0D46jQgDKXwijvpSzCCasc1RkUgBwCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/20201228_100216%255B1%255D.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2048" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ECjxchkkDXU/X-uxG6djWwI/AAAAAAAAlAI/JhkM0D46jQgDKXwijvpSzCCasc1RkUgBwCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/20201228_100216%255B1%255D.jpg" /></a></div><br /> <p></p><p><br /></p>Jesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17930908566982043802noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8274378112190826121.post-37017217827507530352020-11-09T13:29:00.000+00:002021-03-22T11:46:44.340+00:00Ebb and Flow of Creativity and Anxiety Drawings<div>Currently I find myself looking down my checklist thinking, I don't want to do that, or that, nope, don't feel like doing that. I am fidgety and restless and yet feel an absolute apathy to do anything constructive. Once I get on a roll I am fine but it's like drawing blood from a stone getting into that state! I haven't truly created, painted, unleashed lately and I believe that's a big part of it. The last couple of months have been about planning, doing, being in the right place at the right time, remembering lists of things to carry around and pass on to people. Having gone from a very narrow field of goals to all of a sudden being everywhere and being 'normal' is actually far from it and feels very strange. </div><div><br /></div><div>Over the summer I made a conscious decision to continue <span color="rgba(38, 38, 38, 1)" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; border-bottom-color: currentColor; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: currentcolor; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-image: none 100% / 1 / 0 stretch; border-left-color: currentColor; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: currentColor; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: none; border-top-color: currentColor; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" title="Edited">markmaking as often as I can, even if 'inspiration' has run dry. <span color="rgba(38, 38, 38, 1)" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; display: inline; float: none; font-family: inherit; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: inherit; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">I've gone such long periods in life without painting and drawing and I know in retrospect how important they are for my mind and wellbeing. </span></span></div><div><span color="rgba(38, 38, 38, 1)" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; border-bottom-color: currentColor; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: currentcolor; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-image: none 100% / 1 / 0 stretch; border-left-color: currentColor; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: currentColor; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: none; border-top-color: currentColor; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" title="Edited"><br /></span></div><div><span>So for want of a better phrase these are the start of a series of 'anxiety drawings'. <span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; border-image: none; border: 0px; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: inherit; font: inherit; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" title="Edited">There is no end vision, no real planning, there is still judgement but I try to keep it light. I am all for sharing positivity, it breeds positivity and so I am reluctant to talk about feeling sad, helpless, anxious, angry but I have a desire to persevere, to be resilient, to feel good and that's where these little artworks come in, they tether me to that resilience. And make sure I don't lose touch with creativity. </span></span><span color="rgba(38, 38, 38, 1)" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; border-bottom-color: currentColor; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: currentcolor; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-image: none 100% / 1 / 0 stretch; border-left-color: currentColor; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: currentColor; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: none; border-top-color: currentColor; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; 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font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" title="Edited"><br />We turn to art and we connect.</span><b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><br /></div><div><b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-yUjv9_ha9bs/X5bK30q_RYI/AAAAAAAAj9c/Q6zTtuaup40NmGh3ToqcCt3MQq8t0xQvQCPcBGAsYHg/s4128/20200910_165032.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4128" data-original-width="3096" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-yUjv9_ha9bs/X5bK30q_RYI/AAAAAAAAj9c/Q6zTtuaup40NmGh3ToqcCt3MQq8t0xQvQCPcBGAsYHg/w241-h320/20200910_165032.jpg" width="241" /></a> <a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-V0n-1GXGrVI/X5bK336v5qI/AAAAAAAAj9c/XDJJDX6Jm3gG63blfYIfe0SGZYPkY4GOgCPcBGAsYHg/s4128/20200910_165007.jpg" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; 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text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><span><span>This little blackbird illustration is<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; display: inline; float: none; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: inherit; font: inherit; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> my contribution to the Yeovil Creatives</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; display: inline; float: none; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: inherit; font: inherit; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> Travelling Artwork. One of the lovely projects I've been fortunate to take part in this year. It really helped to sustain a sense of togetherness and connection in creativity, things like this keep us going! I put my little page in very early on and it's great to see the final piece on display in the </span></span></span><a class="notranslate" href="https://www.instagram.com/yeovilartspace/" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; border-bottom-color: currentColor; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-image: none; border-left-color: currentColor; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: currentColor; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: currentColor; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; border: 0px; color: rgba(var(--fe0,0,55,107),1); font-family: inherit; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: inherit; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" tabindex="0">Y</a>eovil Art Space<span color="rgba(38, 38, 38, 1)" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; display: inline; float: none; font-family: inherit; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: inherit; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> with all the talented artists that have put in pages since. </span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-family: -apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,&quot; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; 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color: white;"><b></b><i></i><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div></a></div>Jesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17930908566982043802noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8274378112190826121.post-23344448893063097942020-10-26T14:23:00.002+00:002020-10-26T14:29:52.672+00:00Looking back at Somerset Open Studios 2020<div>Somerset Open Studios was an enlightening experience this year. I think many of us were apprehensive about the new conditions it was being held under and many artists did a wonderful job of being digital only. It was tricky working without the usual art trail to follow and the lovely brochure we usually have to explore and scribble in but we are all learning new skills this year and who knows what opportunities our new understandings will bring.</div><div><br /></div><div>I was delighted to spend a couple of weeks in the Yeovil Art Space meeting those who came to see my work 'in real life' and for all of those who I met because they came to explore something new. So many conversations about creativity and community and inspiring and encouraging each other. About how much art matters, culture connects and how keeping that going is so important to our health and mind. Whether you are admiring something gorgeous, creating a masterpiece of scribbling with joy in pencil on paper. If you get a chance please check out my Instagram feed and Highlights reel for photos from during the Open Studios event <a href="https://www.instagram.com/jess.egan.art/" target="_blank">@jess.egan.art</a></div><div><br /></div><div>So I'm saying a big thank you to Yeovil Art Space for being my venue and enabling me to public access and space that I just wouldn't have had at home. It was a joy to be able to spread my wings out of my home studio space and seeing my work on other walls is always good. I have special thanks to Zoe Li who's vision has brought Yeovil Art Space to life but mostly for her knowledge and conviction and her encouragement for my creativity.</div><div><br /></div><div>Please check out <a href="https://yeovilcreatives.uk/" target="_blank">www.yeovilcreatives.uk</a> and <a href="https://yeovilartspace.uk/" target="_blank">www.yeovilartspace.uk</a> to find out more about these special emerging projects.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LvGLMF1uqmU/X5bbbvq-anI/AAAAAAAAj98/1I1QCZjtRAED820eok882tusRH6KaEClACLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/20200919_112329.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2048" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LvGLMF1uqmU/X5bbbvq-anI/AAAAAAAAj98/1I1QCZjtRAED820eok882tusRH6KaEClACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/20200919_112329.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-TfQTGVPPst0/X5bbbGa1PPI/AAAAAAAAj90/jAAFVaWp4UQKtroJptbwuJIZJ6Ds9tn8wCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/20200919_112348.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2048" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-TfQTGVPPst0/X5bbbGa1PPI/AAAAAAAAj90/jAAFVaWp4UQKtroJptbwuJIZJ6Ds9tn8wCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/20200919_112348.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hSVYXTqSk-s/X5bbbbu-OAI/AAAAAAAAj94/9KPQsIMwZ6QcEC4sLGXY_AQU2WBZ9H5XQCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/20200919_112402.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2048" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hSVYXTqSk-s/X5bbbbu-OAI/AAAAAAAAj94/9KPQsIMwZ6QcEC4sLGXY_AQU2WBZ9H5XQCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/20200919_112402.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div>Jesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17930908566982043802noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8274378112190826121.post-31337940346619573182020-09-14T11:40:00.008+00:002020-09-14T16:17:17.619+00:00Somerset Open Studios Starts September 19th<div class="separator"><div style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: left;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2048" height="227" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-V738FRM9ggo/X0jIkk0YxZI/AAAAAAAAdF4/Y4SgvJ8ugXY61gxEbMJ2FwoDTalUJasLwCLcBGAsYHQ/w227-h227/20200610_123910.jpg" style="color: #262626; font-family: georgia;" width="227" /></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #262626; font-family: georgia;">I had the pleasure of moving some of my studio to the Yeovil Art Space this week in prep for the upcoming Somerset Art Weeks. It's a fantastic annual event celebrating a huge variety of artists from all over Somerset. I am really grateful that the event has found ways to proceed and that I will be in a venue that can be open to the public. There is a large space here to share work that I have produced this year, as well as ongoing projects, some studio bits and bobs and of course space for good social distancing.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #262626; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Edited"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #262626; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Edited">There is something about seeing your artwork out of its usual location that refreshes it and gives it a new perspective and I'm looking forward to what the next couple of weeks hold creatively. I will be sharing plenty digitally during this time but if you would like to come and visit you are very welcome.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #262626; font-family: georgia;">Saturday 19th September to 4th October. Venue 51. BA20 1EX.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #262626; font-family: georgia;">Open 10am-2pm Mondays and Sundays</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #262626; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Edited"><span style="border: 0px; color: #262626; font-family: georgia; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Edited">Open 10am-4pm Wed, Fri, Saturdays<br /></span><span style="border: 0px; color: #262626; font-family: georgia; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Edited">Closed Tuesday and Thursday <br /></span><span style="border: 0px; 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I wanted to finish up the last round of paintings for a sense of completion before moving on to new things and it felt great. I was in on a series of workshops and artist talks from Somerset Art Works and they were really inspiring, really informative and launched my involvement in the Somerset Reacquainted project which has been a real eye opener and wonderful for making me 'tick'. These are all brilliant things but somewhere along the line as personal situations have changed I have become distracted and anxious and feel like it's all catching up with me<br /><br />
Our creativity ebbs and flows at the best of times doesn't it... well maybe not for all of us but certainly for me and I guess at a time when we are pushed and stressed and our creativity is needed as a way of expressing this then I conclude I need to persevere. Continue making marks. Continue exploring. Continue playing. Playing is not to be underestimated, affording ourselves a time of spontaneity and finding a thread and following it.<div><br /></div><div>These photos are of just one such session, I gathered lots of different materials paints, crayons, pastels etc, opened up my horizons, and then as source material I recently pulled together a file of photographs of several favourite countryside and coastal locations that hold importance for me. The point being to kind of echo the positivity I get from being in these places to the positives I gain fron making marks and making art.<br /><div><br />
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sometimes just one day has felt like three different lifetimes. I look
back over photographs from the last few months and see different stages of
knowledge and emotions. The influences and impacts of life from outside
our refuge of home and the movement of life within it.</font></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">
</div><p class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><font color="#ffffff"><span>I find solace in taking photographs. Tiny
snaps of creativity when I find myself unable to draw or paint. Along the
ebb and flow of my creativity, working from home and looking after my child
during lockdown has meant time painting and drawing is restricted. I have
in some ways found parallels with my maternity leave 4 years ago when
creativity also found it’s way through in almost compulsive photography.
I found a fascination with my immediate surroundings and the garden and
the seasons happening around us. I photograph the garden, our walks, our
creations, meals, drawings and ourselves. Compiling and editing and
playing digitally in fleeting moments. Recording, documenting, remembering.</span><span> </span></font></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">
</div><p class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span><font color="#ffffff">I find solace in my sketchbooks and mark making, I
use watercolour a lot and particularly when I feel the need to work with paint
and time is short. So when I began to review my photographs and compile
these collages, thinking in a kind of Instagram language of squares and grids,
I saw the images become smaller dashes of colour and I thought of emulating the
overall image in watercolour. This grid that I have produced in small
squares of</font><font color="#ffffff"> paint has been a kind of meditative process, mind absorbing and
relaxing. I have been able to pick it up whether I have one luxurious
hour or five fleeting minutes. It has been a marking of time and reflection.</font></span></p><p class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span><font><br /></font></span></p><div class="separator" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; clear: both; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: white;"><span><span style="background: white;"> <a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-AJGgYNrR-7M/Xwg92OvoEcI/AAAAAAAAc8c/FOqOOl_9sakgI6Z8fkiyP7_g8mg7L0RHgCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/PSX_20200626_174804.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1600" height="256" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-AJGgYNrR-7M/Xwg92OvoEcI/AAAAAAAAc8c/FOqOOl_9sakgI6Z8fkiyP7_g8mg7L0RHgCLcBGAsYHQ/w255-h256/PSX_20200626_174804.jpg" width="255" /></a></span></span><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Y2ZfuuOmO7g/Xwg9phou3WI/AAAAAAAAc8Q/ZnCOWFf4fFYKrJEBtw585UxOUOhxgnONQCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/PSX_20200625_160150.jpg" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; orphans: 2; text-align: center; text-decoration: underline; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1564" data-original-width="1564" height="256" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Y2ZfuuOmO7g/Xwg9phou3WI/AAAAAAAAc8Q/ZnCOWFf4fFYKrJEBtw585UxOUOhxgnONQCLcBGAsYHQ/w256-h256/PSX_20200625_160150.jpg" width="256" /></a></span></div><span style="color: white;"><b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: white;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: white;"> <a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-VW48Mju_aFI/Xwg9kunDwUI/AAAAAAAAc8M/cuB1Zm9YPYYdZ45srSKybsa6T3OC3uQQgCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/PSX_20200625_155933.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1564" data-original-width="1564" height="256" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-VW48Mju_aFI/Xwg9kunDwUI/AAAAAAAAc8M/cuB1Zm9YPYYdZ45srSKybsa6T3OC3uQQgCLcBGAsYHQ/w256-h256/PSX_20200625_155933.jpg" width="256" /></a><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ojRHJVeeTww/Xwg9t9nELAI/AAAAAAAAc8U/I6vSJ7aSkh872GqVr95kK0-TBTBM0QLHQCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/PSX_20200626_174410.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1600" height="256" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ojRHJVeeTww/Xwg9t9nELAI/AAAAAAAAc8U/I6vSJ7aSkh872GqVr95kK0-TBTBM0QLHQCLcBGAsYHQ/w256-h256/PSX_20200626_174410.jpg" width="256" /></a></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;">
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I have been so delighted recently to announce that I have been awarded with a Creative Pathways Bursary a fantastic initiative from Somerset Art Works <span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">to support emerging artists</span>, I am so excited about what this entails and not least the chance to really expand my art practice and my understanding of it. This feels like a bit of a landmark event and so strange to be starting it under lockdown circumstances. I have included here below text from my first post on the Somerset Art Works Artist Development blog and will aim to keep some updated going here. If you would like to see more regular sketches ideas and discoveries then my Instagram account is like my online sketchbook and you can find me <span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">@jess.egan.art</span><br />
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It’s been a strange time recently hasn’t it...<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>understatement of the century.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And
what feels like it might be the strangest year to be a Creative Pathways
artist.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My first ever Zoom experience
was the interview for the bursary back in the first weeks of lockdown; and
potentially all the more nerve wracking for that.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Creativity in recent months has ebbed and
flowed but being involved with Somerset Art Works and aiming forwards in a
project has been an unexpected lifeline.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><br />
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The project that I had in mind for this year and had decided
to focus on and develop with the Creative Pathways bursary is essentially about
Place and Wellbeing in my art.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On the
one hand a fortuitous choice, it has encouraged me to be mindful of my mental
health and how my creativity helps with that and on the other hand a very
reflective one as I have been thinking about the places that I would usually be
visiting to explore and absorb and feel good and obviously haven’t been able to
do so.<br />
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I have gone about these early stages of the project and
early weeks of lockdown by planning, experimenting and writing. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I gather my sketchbooks and photographs and
found objects from previous excursions around me... I’ve included an image here
of some of the work gathered so far. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My sketches and notes are scattered at the
moment, a bit like my thoughts on a day to day basis in lockdown, but here I am
exercising a little control and pulling everything together, organising,
tidying; <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>a coping mechanism
perhaps.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am feeling grateful this thread is here to
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<br />Jesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17930908566982043802noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8274378112190826121.post-16337312556566546612020-05-27T09:43:00.002+00:002020-05-27T09:47:01.942+00:00Earlier in 2020...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Earlier in the year I was having a think about what ideas I wanted to explore through my art in the coming months. I have a few 'projects' running but one of the directions I wanted to go in was creating a series of work around the places I head to in the landscape to make myself feel good. Where are my wellbeing landmarks...? Where do I go when I need to breathe in and absorb the view and feel calm and peaceful? This idea came about pre-lockdown and so it has become a little ironic that I'm exploring the places that I could really do with visiting and can't. But, it has been a valuable thread to follow. This is a little lane running alongside Eggardon Hill, near Bridport, Dorset. This incredible hillfort is one of my places, this is where the land opens up wide around me and I feel I am on top of the world. 🌿 Hope you are all ok xx<br />
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Please see my Instagram page for frequent posts and pictures @jess.egan.art<br />
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