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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


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


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...
Gillian Holding
Oct 24, 20121 min read


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


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...
Gillian Holding
Jul 11, 20121 min read


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...
Gillian Holding
Jul 9, 20121 min read


Informed by Photoshop #gristtothemill
Between now and my deadline for this painting, I have chauffeur, chef, housemaid, teaching and advisory duties making lengthy studio...
Gillian Holding
Jul 7, 20121 min read


#dailyfail #27
Ah, the joy of an unexpectedly glorious “failure”. I was trialling the opalescent screen and shadow puppets today. It’s fair to say I had...
Gillian Holding
Jan 31, 20121 min read


#dailyfail #21
It’s funny how ideas evolve. This blog series for example: I had no real Idea of what was going to happen, what I was going to post, but...
Gillian Holding
Jan 24, 20121 min read


#adailyselfreflection on clutter #followart #iphoneography
I play around a lot with the iPhone camera. I like its severe limitations. #art #iPhonephotos #photography #postaday2011 #digitalart...
Gillian Holding
Jan 17, 20111 min read


#adailyselfreflection on sleeping whilst awake #followart #draw365
#adailyselfreflection on sleeping whilst awake #art #adailyselfreflection #Ipad #postaday2011 #digitalpainting #Selfportrait
Gillian Holding
Jan 14, 20111 min read


#adailyselfreflection on breaking silence #followart #ipaddrawings #draw365
Just once or twice over the months have I incorporated other images from this series, but today I used three or four apps in composing...
Gillian Holding
Jan 13, 20111 min read


#adailyselfreflection on progress or lack thereof #followart #draw365 #ipaddrawings
I thought this would be more of a figure drawing and more ‘finished’ but I stopped because I liked the left eye. #art...
Gillian Holding
Jan 9, 20111 min read


#adailyselfreflection on how easy it is to overcomplicate #followart #draw365 #ipaddrawings
Running late every which way this morning so I was set for a chaotic speedy image and the chaos and speed was easy enough but then I...
Gillian Holding
Jan 7, 20111 min read


#adailyselfreflection on freedom and choice #draw365 #followart
Sometimes I have no desire to look into the mirror at all, or gaze at a webcam image, and seeing myself in the mind’s eye is as close to...
Gillian Holding
Jan 6, 20111 min read


#adailyselfreflection on the importance of paint #draw365
It’s all about not painting enough with real paint but in the fantasyland of iPad apps it’s not a problem. #art #adailyselfreflection...
Gillian Holding
Jan 5, 20111 min read


#adailyselfreflection on the big picture #followart #draw365 #ipaddrawings
Today I realised I spent yesterday drowning in detail. All I wanted to do today was to be able to take a step back, see the big picture,...
Gillian Holding
Jan 3, 20111 min read


#adailyselfreflection: Welcome to the Dedicated Blog
forcing myself to use a constant line to depict form and volume #adailyselfreflection began when I realised there was a great forum in...
Gillian Holding
Jan 2, 20112 min read
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