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Perfect Day
backs or fronts A perfect day. 1. I really really like the “backs” of these paintings which is good because if I hate the fronts when I...
Gillian Holding
Apr 27, 20161 min read
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Slow-fast progress
work in progress (detail) Celestial Suburbia (Chapeltown) Can’t decide if progress is slow, fast, on schedule or behind. All that can be...
Gillian Holding
Apr 24, 20161 min read
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Control and surrender
surrendering to process I was talking with a fellow studio holder yesterday about controlling process, and surrendering to process. It’s...
Gillian Holding
Apr 23, 20161 min read
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Drawing phases
schematic layouts Procrastination takes many forms. The outside world mutters about it as though it’s a bad thing: but procrastination...
Gillian Holding
Apr 22, 20161 min read
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Drawing media
experiments with media I thought I had one of those eureka moments yesterday. I thought I’d found the perfect medium to work directly...
Gillian Holding
Apr 21, 20161 min read
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Left Bank Residency: day 8
, first layers If I begin to think about the amount of surface to be painted between now and close of play Wednesday, it seems...
Gillian Holding
Apr 12, 20161 min read
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Left Bank Residency: Day 6
more experiments with material Day six is an achievement not least because for most of it I was at a charity fund-raising art fair and...
Gillian Holding
Apr 10, 20161 min read
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Left Bank Residency: Day 5
Wah. But still, so much exciting stuff is happening in the midst of the angst that I would far sooner be facing the tough bits than not....
Gillian Holding
Apr 9, 20161 min read
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Left Bank Residency: Day 4
drawing compositions Day four began with bleary eyes, a list of objectives for the day, and yet another interminable list of things to be...
Gillian Holding
Apr 8, 20162 min read
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Left Bank Residency: day 2
Light patterns of evening Second day, and the temporary studio is in place. A series of foraging sorties to the conveniently located...
Gillian Holding
Apr 6, 20161 min read
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Tourist View (Canadian Rockies)
Tourist View (Canadian Rockies) oil on paper 100 x 150cm On holiday last year, it took me a week or so to realise I was more interested...
Gillian Holding
May 20, 20151 min read
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Painting in Women’s Hour
oil study (sacrifice of the feminine) (soldier) (oil on paper 110 x 80cm) Stuff’s a bit busy what with convergence of my taxi driver role...
Gillian Holding
May 18, 20151 min read
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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...
Gillian Holding
Sep 3, 20131 min read
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The Old Travelling Kit
My ongoing fascination with the ordinary everyday is now particularly focussing on abnormal normality and issues of collaboration and...
Gillian Holding
May 1, 20131 min read
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Harsh scrutiny
#Painting #Portraiture #selfportraiture
Gillian Holding
Apr 25, 20131 min read
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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,...
Gillian Holding
Apr 23, 20131 min read
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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...
Gillian Holding
Apr 17, 20131 min read
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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...
Gillian Holding
Nov 9, 20121 min read
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Latest Projects
Westbourne Grove (a portrait of everyday) (detail of collage element) It’s been a while… but things get busy… the drawings are coming...
Gillian Holding
Oct 23, 20121 min read
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Enamel Enamoured #gristtothemill
After a busy couple of weeks spent staring at computer screens producing work for various festivals here, there and just about...
Gillian Holding
Jul 23, 20121 min read
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