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 work and had a protracted recovery. I am, however, able to create again, back at work and feeling I am regaining some agency around my creativity.

Breaking the Hiatus

By: Jeff Ting
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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

By: Jeff Ting
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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

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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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Imperfect Symmetry

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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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A Bird of Paradise

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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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Flower Grids 1 and 2

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These last two works are small pieces, measuring 20 x 20 cm. This grid arrangement is becoming a tradition. I did a bigger version last winter, so I thought I’d make 2 small ones that are variations on a theme. My mum loves these! I decided to ensconce the flowers in a nest-like shape, a…

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Flower Salad

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After a successful Warwickshire Open Studios 2019, I am continuing my exhibits for my local hospital’s Healing Arts Summer Exhibition. The show runs until 30th September, so do check it out (as it is free to see in the hospital grounds in Coventry). My first submission this year is the paper collage above. This work…

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August Wedding

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This was an off-shoot of July Wedding. Sometimes the elements of one work flows into another. July Wedding was a much larger piece at 41 cm x 58 cm. This one is approximately half that size. The couple is moving into their new – a houseboat. A more intimate size was thus an important consideration.…

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Sisters

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This is the final piece for my Warwickshire Open Studios group show at UHCW, here in Coventry. My best friends were the muses. The idea was to celebrate nursing – a profession that, quite literally, has brought people from different parts of the world to work together and care for patients in our National Health…

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Floribunda 4 – Vintage Colours

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When making these for my WOS exhibit, I thought of reprising vintage colours. I chose two primary colours, a white accent, and finished it off with a deep green. The see-through yellow flower is a new flower this year. I like how it pops against the blue! This idea has made me think of making…

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Floribunda 2 – ‘Orchid’

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Orchids are something I have an affinity with because I got to discover their beauty in my early childhood. My mum used to grow a few and is reviving this practice this year. Our neighbour also had a little house extension crammed with (now I come to think of it) rarefied varieties. Then, we lived…

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