Gillian Holding
Control and surrender
surrendering to process I was talking with a fellow studio holder yesterday about controlling process, and surrendering to process. It’s...
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Gillian Holding
Apr 22, 20161 min
Drawing phases
schematic layouts Procrastination takes many forms. The outside world mutters about it as though it’s a bad thing: but procrastination...
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Gillian Holding
Sep 3, 20131 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
Apr 30, 20131 min
Found some Crayons
Tidying up. Found some crayons. Found a mirror without any light. Just what was needed. #drawing #Portraiture #Selfportrait
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Gillian Holding
Apr 17, 20131 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
Feb 24, 20131 min
Woman asleep on Train
Yes. Absolutely. It is intrusive behaviour, and goodness knows how I’d feel if someone captured me with my head back, mouth open and an...
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Gillian Holding
Feb 23, 20131 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, 20131 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
Jan 19, 20131 min
Canal St Martin in Snow
#Charcoal #drawing #streetdrawing
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Gillian Holding
Dec 28, 20121 min
App Update: Art Studio
Just as exciting as finding a new drawing app is the complete overhaul and improvement of an existing app. Art Studio, long one of my...
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Gillian Holding
Oct 26, 20121 min
More Figures
#contemporaryart #collage #creativity #Portraiture #dailylife #digitaldrawing #Ipad #urbandrawing #drawing
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Gillian Holding
Oct 23, 20121 min
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...
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Gillian Holding
Jul 6, 20121 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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Gillian Holding
Jul 4, 20121 min
In search of Hands
The hands have it today. A week of making up poses and narratives has sent me scurrying in search of those masters of narrative posing to...
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Gillian Holding
Jun 15, 20122 min
A Leeds Stroll #gristtothemill
Last summer I completed a large drawing installation for the On The Edge festival in Leeds, mapping through drawing the demographic...
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Gillian Holding
Jun 2, 20121 min
#gristtothemill with glasses
I like drawing the thing immediately in front of me. I like taking just what’s there, non negotiable. It’s often an empty glass. Although...
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Gillian Holding
May 29, 20121 min
#gristtothemill in sun
Lazy days. I just want to sit out or lie down in the sun. This might be summer. It’s bound to rain over the Jubilee weekend....
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Gillian Holding
May 19, 20121 min
#gristtothemill #76
Back to people. It’s always back to people. The default setting. Sometimes it’s people mediated through the eyes of another. The head at...
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