Celebrating 70 years of the NHS.
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Coventry Blooms
An ode to Coventry City
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Aide Memoire
Making tropical coral reef-inspired microcosms
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A Bird of Paradise
This is the little star of the Wild Wonder show in December. This little guy is in fact the poster boy, as you may have surmised. I used to quill birds of paradise when I was younger. Like most of my first attempts at art, they have been lost through time and lack of care.…
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Micro-climate
Another abstract moment headed to Warwickshire Open Studios this year. I decided to inject some ‘cuties’ in this one. These inked bug-like things are emerging in my subconscious, as I listen to nature-related topics on the radio while I’m working. I have been listening to this dystopian drama on the BBC, called ‘Forest 404’. Somehow…
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Savoury-sweet
I have continued the gastronomic theme and sharing this today. This one’s an odd one, but it is slowly growing on me. A gauche creation that I’m still trying to figure out. I added a touch of gold watercolour – ‘savoury’. The ‘pinks’ and ‘yellow’ are the saccharine elements. The iridiscent sequins complete the arrangement.
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Delish
Thought about mixing pleated papers with coiled and ‘bendy’ ones. The juxtaposition of these two methods was the starting point. Then it became about how the papers cast subtle colourful shadows on the support. Played with several ‘arrangements’ and finally decided on this offering, which reminds me of restaurant food. So my inner gastronome is…
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New Directions
Spring is here! And I have been busy making new works for an upcoming exhibit called Warwickshire Open Studios. It’s based on my hometown here at Coventry where artists open up their studios for some ‘art fix’ for everyone. This is my first time joining, so I am anticipating it with equal measures of positive…
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Sisters
Indigo Island
This is an island fantasy – dreaming of the tropics and the promise of warm sunny waters.
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Coventry Blooms
An ode to Coventry City
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Viola
Violet for Viola
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Aide Memoire
Making tropical coral reef-inspired microcosms
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Vases
Quilled flowers in sun-drenched vases
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Hanging Baskets
A basket of flowers in colours that positively pop
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Radial
Making a radial shape using only simple, but effective quilling shapes
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Moonlight
Moonlight happened very naturally as an idea. I just thought I needed something to capture a moonlit tropical evening on the beach. The idea of paper white against the indigo felt like a good contrast. For those of you who are new to quilling, there is a particular shape that every quiller has to learn…
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Orchids
Orchids are my favourite flowers because they remind me of my birthplace. This was in the southern part of the Philippines, where orchids grew in abundance, especially where nature was left undisturbed by human activities. I remember memorising all their local names, as every neighbour seemed to be growing one. This sounds morbid, but I…
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Blue Colony
This piece is called Blue Colony – exhibited on my Wild Wonder exhibition (2019).
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Breaking the Hiatus
Hello there. I am finding I am able to write again. I have been gone for quite a long time in the blogosphere due to a lot of reasons. I think, like most people, COVID had a lot to do with it. Like so many others, I caught it last year in my line of…
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Heartbeats
Hello again. This is one of my ‘assemblages’ where I make different ‘objects’ from scratch and arrange them as if to choreograph their ‘dance’. Heartbeats is so titled because of the two hand-woven, heart-shaped central pieces. These are what Filipinos in the central Visayas region call “puso” (literally meaning ‘hearts’). We tend to use coconut…
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Dahlias
Hello again. After the Christmas hiatus, I am continuing my art stories. This is the fourth piece in the sequence from last December’s Wild Wonder show. It measures 29 x 40 cm (unframed). I was nostalgic about the tropics and, hence, the idea of making a kind of floral offering. The backround is an ink…
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White Feather Memories
It measures 29 x 29 cm unframed. Misshapen bird feathers were the starting point for this piece. My dad used to breed white doves and collecting bird fearthers is one of my childhood memories. The patterns are a combination of design and happenstance – as I release the folds of paper, I wait for it…
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Imperfect Symmetry
Measuring 29 x 29 cm, this was about playing with traditional quilling shapes, encasing them in circles and squares. The squares in particular are actually more rectangular, than square. This led to experimenting with how best to arrange them. I came up with the one above, which looks off-kilter in a way because the elements…
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Young Colony
My exhibition called Wild Wonder here in Coventry is fully under way. This is the first work in a series of fourteen. I shall blog each one as the show goes on. Yes, I have been busy making, and here it is in the flesh shown in the wonderful Blue Door Gallery. I am pleased…
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The Art of Jeff Ting 