Gillian Holding
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, 20121 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, 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 20, 20121 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, 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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Gillian Holding
May 18, 20122 min
#gristtothemill #75
Ok, so I’ve done some further thinking. This blog is ultimately looking at the creative process from my personal perspective. It began...
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Gillian Holding
May 14, 20122 min
Rethinking #dailyfail #74
It’s springtime and time to re-think the purpose and function of #dailyfail. It’s all about looking at the process of creativity. It...
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Gillian Holding
May 8, 20121 min
#dailyfail #73
Well, it’s been something of a daily failure to achieve anything creative this last week. I’ve not been idle, but if I’m honest, it takes...
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Gillian Holding
May 4, 20121 min
#dailyfail #72
It’s been a day of ambiguities consequently reflected in this picture. What’s real, what’s not and does it matter anyway? Held the camera...
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Gillian Holding
Apr 27, 20121 min
#dailyfail #71
It’s been a busy busy week. After giant leaps with studio work last week, this has been the opposite. I haven’t had a break for a...
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Gillian Holding
Apr 22, 20121 min
#dailyfail #70
After four months, I’m forced to add a new category. Digital. The whole point initially of #dailyfail was to return to the unambiguous...
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Gillian Holding
Apr 20, 20121 min
#dailyfail #69
On a roll. Dragged out another painting I have been stewing about for longer than I care to think but there’s something about it which...
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Gillian Holding
Apr 19, 20121 min
#dailyfail #68
An exciting day in the studio. Radical transformations to not one, not two, but THREE paintings. Went mad with spray paint on two (large...
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Gillian Holding
Apr 18, 20121 min
#dailyfail #67
Back in the studio. Back to the current work. Or one of them (I always have a number of works on the go; it’s a practice I developed on...
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Gillian Holding
Apr 8, 20121 min
#dailyfail #66
Away from the mothership and with limited materials and time to hand, and with a lot of background work to do following my joint of the...
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Gillian Holding
Apr 6, 20121 min
#dailyfail #65
I’m really enjoying messing with the MagicShutter photo app, and using it to draw. It has some amazing possibilities: a degree of control...
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Gillian Holding
Apr 5, 20121 min
#dailyfail #64
Stuck in traffic circling London, art materials safely packed out of sight, darkness falling and the dawning realisation we will not be...
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Gillian Holding
Apr 3, 20121 min
#dailyfail #63
Some days it’s impossible to resist the lure of digital play. Particularly when you are travelling up and down the country in a train...
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Gillian Holding
Mar 30, 20121 min
#dailyfail #62
The under layers of a new work. I like documenting work in progress. It’s all part of the digital revolution. A hundred photos taken...
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