Hello,

I have been quite busy lately creating work for my degree and work for The Lincoln Christmas Market. A lot of ideas have come from the walk I did and I have been especially looking at my line-based compositions. These small black and white drawings show my observational studies and the descriptive quality in the land. They are intermit and have a personal quality to them.

In the black and white sketches I was interested in layering them on top of each other so that you can see different perspectives and marks. I choose to use tracing paper as a starting point because of its transparent medium. When the A4 paper was folded into long landscape concertina I was able to flatten the tracing paper (through a press) and create a drawing which encompassed five sketches. I found this process interesting, but want to explore this layering further.

I then made the same product out of resin. The finished product felt incomplete and wasn’t portraying what I intended. So I moved into glass work, which gave me some exciting outcomes. I did a number of these to sell for the Christmas Market taking place from the 6th – 9th December. The black and white glass works have the most potential as they amplify the different marks on the glass.

In the studio I have also been creating some black and white landscapes which deal with marks, gesture and ideas of paths. I found out from my walk that I want to study colour in a very minimal way, as colour can be very provocative in its nature. I want the expression of my work to be as organic as possible, and not have my audience read into the colour, but read into the lines and marks I create.

I will be exploring this further and on a grander scale when I finish my dissertation! Thanks for listening and enjoy the images,

Ed

Hi all,

Just thought I’d share with you a link which shows my walk being published in The Guardian.

http://jobsadvice.guardian.co.uk/graduate/story/0,,2204330,00.html

Enjoy, Ed

Hello everyone,

People who are quite interested in my work might want to know that I have just recently done a 86mile walk around Lincolnshire. The walk is called ‘The Viking Way’ and is a 150miles lone. I decided to split the walk in half as I felt I needed more time to see the surroundings, than just walk past it!

So far I have completed the part from the Humber Bridge down to Lincoln City. On the way I passed places like Caistor, Tealsby, Donnington on Bain, Horncastle and Woodhall Spa. The Wolds had great views and I could see for tens of miles in all directions.

On my journey I tried to capture my experience by sketching and note-taking on the way. I found this tool to be useful in gathering information from nature. The quick sketches I did helped me capture the landscape and the more I did, the better I got at understanding the compositional layout of the land.

Hope you like some of the work and it would be great to hear some responses.

-Ed