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Gillian Holding
- Oct 25, 2012
- 1 min
More snippets of Westbourne Grove
I’ve discovered that trying to draw on a laptop on a rattling train makes me train sick. Good job there are no more train journeys over...
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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
- Oct 23, 2012
- 1 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 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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Gillian Holding
- Jul 4, 2012
- 1 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
- Jul 2, 2012
- 1 min
And yet more (on identity) #gristtothemill
No time in the studio now until Thursday. It’s one of those weeks when I really wish the rest of the world didn’t exist. I don’t mean...
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Gillian Holding
- Jul 1, 2012
- 1 min
More on identity #gristtothemill
Painting figures in ridiculous poses from imagination is sometimes very very hard and very very frustrating. I need a ten year...
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Gillian Holding
- Jun 29, 2012
- 1 min
Identity study #gristtothemill
Playing around with a number of ideas at the moment on nationality, identity, competition, success… It was good to mess with oil paint....
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Gillian Holding
- Jun 15, 2012
- 2 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 12, 2012
- 1 min
#gristtothemill street scenes
Busy busy busy at the moment. But busy on a sewing machine rather than in a sketchbook or in the studio. Creating a large machined...
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Gillian Holding
- Jun 2, 2012
- 1 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, 2012
- 1 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 20, 2012
- 1 min
#gristtothemill #77
Been drawing this scene in idle moments for years. Surreptitiously. I’m supposed to be concentrating and listening and absorbing. Soon...
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Gillian Holding
- May 19, 2012
- 1 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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