Freely effulgent nocturnal blooms
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Verdant
Is the tenacity of nature a symbol of hope?
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Arrangement
A floral arrangement hand-crafted from imagination
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Huddle
A marine-like concoction
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Climber
Summer in a frame
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Patterns
Feeling yellow vibes
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Nocturne
Summer Art Weeks 2022 seems a distant memory now. Nocturne is a memento of that special summer.
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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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Bioluminescence
Hello again. This is the final piece I am showing at UHCW Hospital Winter Arts this year (in Coventry). For winter, I wanted an expanse of colours, to stretch the quilling, as if in ‘travel’ or ‘flow’. After several preliminary sketches, I somehow arrived at this – an abstract ‘creature world’, inspired by bioluminescence, the…
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Symbiosis
This is the second piece in my Winter Arts exhibition at UHCW hospital. It measures 41 x 58 cm. Again it’s framed in white. This was an experiment in colours that are quite tropical and vibrant. It seems to have a ‘visual dance’ element, which I like. Also, I am starting to achieve some recession…
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Deep Dive
Exhibitions of my works seem to have come like buses at the moment. I am also exhibiting three of my works to this show (see poster below). This is my local hospital’s Healing Arts Winter Arts Exhibition. The theme for this year is on the concept of ‘Emerging’. So I got to work, inspired by…
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