Work from the first term at Somerset College of Art and Technology.
This was some work about frogs. I can't really explain it. I found a dead frog under the recycling bin in my mum's garden. I thought maybe it said something about human intervention in the natural world, i.e. the frog had come to rely on the shelter of the bin, and when the bin men moved it, they crushed him. I made lots of frogs out of illuminous play-doh, TM. I stretched them and photographed them in natural surroundings and surreal scenarios. Eventually the bits of frogs dried up and I displayed them on some specially made shelves.
These are some close ups of work produced in a 2 day drawing workshop run by sculptor and tutor Graham Seaton and painter and tutor, Stewart Geddes. The idea was to loosen us up - get us to over-ride our natural drawing habits. It was a good day. I don't think I quite let go enough, but given the opportunity again I wouldn't be so conventional. There were students stabbing their paper or painting with their feet. I just enjoyed making pretty patterns.
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