Gillian Holding
Perils of Prussian Blue
works in progress The other day I was seized by an impulse to use a mix of Prussian blue and Cadmium Red for a painting. Poking around...
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Gillian Holding
- May 29, 2015
- 1 min
Imagination in play
doll with soldier (study) oil on paper 120cm x 100cm Painting out of the imagination with absolutely no reference materials to hand, no...
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Gillian Holding
- May 26, 2015
- 1 min
More unconscious paint…
study (lemon yellow) oil on board 9″ x 10″ a day of priming apart from 15 minutes messing with lemon yellow.
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Gillian Holding
- May 20, 2015
- 1 min
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...
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Gillian Holding
- May 19, 2015
- 1 min
Nose
painting from sketch of actor on tv Justifying watching Netflix.
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Gillian Holding
- May 18, 2015
- 1 min
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...
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Gillian Holding
- May 15, 2015
- 1 min
Accidental discoveries
accidentally discovering a perfect new transfer medium Transfer mediums never seem to work as easily and effortlessly as I want....
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Gillian Holding
- May 13, 2015
- 1 min
Holbeck Fringes
Back in the studio, the remnant of old canvas I decided to recycle proved an unforgiving and slow surface. After a few hours of scrubbing...
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Gillian Holding
- May 7, 2015
- 1 min
Sketch to Paint
Redrawing a sketch in paint Starting the day in the studio, some form of warm up exercise is always a nice idea. Plucking a sketch from...
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Gillian Holding
- May 6, 2015
- 1 min
Banal beautification
Domestic Street, looking south-ish One problem with studying the banal is the issue of beauty. Just because a subject is boringly...
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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
- May 4, 2015
- 1 min
Chomskyan Non-abstract
Visiting a brilliant Cornelia Parker exhibition today at the stunningly-refurbished Whitworth Art Gallery in Manchester, we were riveted...
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Gillian Holding
- Apr 30, 2015
- 1 min
More Banal Environs
It’s a version of that old childhood game, staring at the ceiling and seeing faces emerge. Here I’m staring at old paint marks on an...
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Gillian Holding
- Apr 29, 2015
- 1 min
Banal environs
It’s a rule I can’t repeat too often to myself: there is no substitute for drawing through ideas. All the daydreaming of images in the...
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Gillian Holding
- Apr 27, 2015
- 1 min
Back to work
After a show opening or an open studios, the temptation is to do nothing. Just a day or two. But experience dictates that any day off...
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Gillian Holding
- Apr 25, 2015
- 1 min
Stations of the Cross
The works are up- all fourteen stations by fourteen artists with very diverse practices and approaches- and it’s looking good. The...
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Gillian Holding
- Apr 22, 2015
- 1 min
Experiments with surface
In the build up to open studios and the group show, I find myself obsessed with the idea of doing something entirely unrelated and new,...
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Gillian Holding
- Apr 18, 2015
- 1 min
The First Station
Detail from The Condemnation of Jesus (2015) oil on wood panel Seven successive days logged in the studio this week working on the final...
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