Gillian Holding
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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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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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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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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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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Gillian Holding
- Apr 25, 2013
- 1 min
Harsh scrutiny
#Painting #Portraiture #selfportraiture
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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