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    Flux
    Gillian Holding
    • Aug 21, 2016
    • 1 min

    Flux

    I’ve been thinking a lot recently about what it means to make (attempt) critically engaged painting. If not painting for the sake of...
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    Playing With Paint
    Gillian Holding
    • May 5, 2015
    • 1 min

    Playing With Paint

    Holbeck Viaduct (detail) work in progress More work on the old surface using up old materials to depict a Holbeck panorama. #holbeck...
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    Holiday studio
    Gillian Holding
    • Sep 3, 2013
    • 1 min

    Holiday studio

    Here’s an all time first. I’ve been staying the last fortnight with friends in their Indian Ocean paradise. As usual, I packed enough...
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    Oil studies
    Gillian Holding
    • Jun 21, 2013
    • 1 min

    Oil studies

    Hot sunny day, so nothing better than to creep inside and miss the sun in pursuit of painting. One of those phases where I revisit...
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    The Old Travelling Kit
    Gillian Holding
    • May 1, 2013
    • 1 min

    The Old Travelling Kit

    My ongoing fascination with the ordinary everyday is now particularly focussing on abnormal normality and issues of collaboration and...
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    Harsh scrutiny
    Gillian Holding
    • Apr 25, 2013
    • 1 min

    Harsh scrutiny

    #Painting #Portraiture #selfportraiture
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    Dash of Paint
    Gillian Holding
    • Apr 23, 2013
    • 1 min

    Dash of Paint

    On the point of scuttling out back to car and decided I had time for a quick oil painting. Placed materials and gilt wax on floor,...
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    Showing Process
    Gillian Holding
    • Apr 17, 2013
    • 1 min

    Showing Process

    I have an exhibition starting this weekend. It’s in a relatively small room adjacent to a larger dining area and bar at The Reliance in...
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    Street wanderings
    Gillian Holding
    • Mar 3, 2013
    • 1 min

    Street wanderings

    I’ve been in the studio every spare second this week. When I’ve not been driving the backstreets of south Leeds in search of target...
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    Thumbnails
    Gillian Holding
    • Feb 25, 2013
    • 1 min

    Thumbnails

    #drawing #projectprocess
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    Real Life Class
    Gillian Holding
    • Feb 23, 2013
    • 1 min

    Real Life Class

    Waiting at station to collect a young international concert pianist whom we are hosting this weekend. The train is due in a couple of...
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    Life Class
    Gillian Holding
    • Feb 23, 2013
    • 1 min

    Life Class

    I think it’s over two years since I last did a life class. I was tempted to spend all today doing a “Klimt” based one. It’s a nice way of...
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    Painting Pleasure
    Gillian Holding
    • Nov 9, 2012
    • 1 min

    Painting Pleasure

    The tendency after any sort of show for me is to sink into a state of overwhelming lassitude. Psychologically, I’m on a roll, but with no...
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    Westbourne Grove Drawings continue apace…
    Gillian Holding
    • Oct 24, 2012
    • 1 min

    Westbourne Grove Drawings continue apace…

    I’d hoped to find a way of posting these daily tasters on the fb event page but the system is defeating me. I have to admit some days I...
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    Enamel Enamoured #gristtothemill
    Gillian Holding
    • Jul 23, 2012
    • 1 min

    Enamel Enamoured #gristtothemill

    After a busy couple of weeks spent staring at computer screens producing work for various festivals here, there and just about...
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    Finally done #gristtothemill
    Gillian Holding
    • Jul 11, 2012
    • 1 min

    Finally done #gristtothemill

    All done. Save mounting and finishing. The great thing about seeing any idea through to completion is the way I want to immediately start...
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    Revealing layers #gristtothemill
    Gillian Holding
    • Jul 9, 2012
    • 1 min

    Revealing layers #gristtothemill

    Tore away the masking tape this afternoon. I quite like it. Bit more to do tomorrow then it’s done. It’s at the abstract stage: the...
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    Figurative Abstracted #gristtothemill
    Gillian Holding
    • Jul 8, 2012
    • 1 min

    Figurative Abstracted #gristtothemill

    Nerve-racking stuff painting through the last few days. Some bits working well. Some not so well. It’s at times like this I feel like...
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    Informed by Photoshop #gristtothemill
    Gillian Holding
    • Jul 7, 2012
    • 1 min

    Informed by Photoshop #gristtothemill

    Between now and my deadline for this painting, I have chauffeur, chef, housemaid, teaching and advisory duties making lengthy studio...
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    Underpainting #gristtothemill
    Gillian Holding
    • Jul 6, 2012
    • 1 min

    Underpainting #gristtothemill

    Despite the rain and consequential almost-floods requiring construction of a barrage of bags of compost across the drive, I made it in to...
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