A word from Alice - studio stories from Alice Draws the Line
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2023 in review
A year in review. I have made this list of 23 things about 2023 that I can think of, in any old non-chronological order! Some really frivolous things and others more significant to the development of my art practice. It has been fun to do and useful at the start of 2024 to consciously think about what I want to put into this year. -
Brush lettering commission
I had the pleasure of creating a really enjoyable piece of brush lettering recently. A customer approached me with some words that they wanted written out to sit alongside two other artworks on a wall in their home.
They bought the other artworks to the studio so we could look at the pieces and the colours used and to work out how this piece - a poem, could sit with them.
We decided to pick out a blue and the grey that had been used in the other pieces and I mixed the colours throughout all the lettering.
The piece related to the seaside and so these colours worked really well. Here are some extracts from it.
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Brush Lettering for the Oriel Davies Gallery preparation work
Yesterday I delivered eight poems to the Oriel Davies Gallery in Newtown, that I had written out in Brush Lettering.
I thought it might be of interest to talk through my process from the start to this point of this project as there has been so much that I have learnt.
Kate Morgan-Clare at the gallery approached me to ask if this was a project that I would be interested in before Christmas. They wanted eight poems written out to honour and elevate them as a celebration of their creation. The poems had been written by participants that took part in creative writing workshops with Emma Beynon - a writer and creative facilitator and Oriel Davies. The workshops explored a sense of place and that is what the exhibition of these poems is called. It will be running from the 5th to the 26th February 2022.
In early January I visited Kate at the gallery to discuss the project fully and to look at the space.
