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Moira Carter
Jun 26, 20171 min read
Inspiring Artist of the Day - Callen Schaub
Never heard of him? I hadn't either ...but found an amazing video of how he works on YouTube: ...and now I'm hooked! Loving all that...
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Moira Carter
Jun 22, 20171 min read
Inspiring Artist of the Day - Eileen Gray
An amazing architect and furniture designer, who designed this black lacquered screen in 1923! If you click on the above photo it will...
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Moira Carter
Jun 20, 20171 min read
Inspiring Artist of the Day - Henri Cartier-Bresson
Why inspiring for me as an artist? I love the fact that his photographs are not cropped, what he saw through the view finder is exactly...
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Moira Carter
Jun 15, 20171 min read
Inspiring Artist of the day - Rene Gruau
Fashion illustration at its very best ... I adore his work - amazing line, great texture, colour sense and a fabulous use of space - with...
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Moira Carter
Jun 13, 20171 min read
Inspiring Artist of the day - Andy Warhol
We all know Andy Warhol don't we?! Why do I find his work inspiring? Not for the Tin of Baked Beans - although it was a stroke of Genius...
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Moira Carter
Jun 8, 20171 min read
Inspiring Artist of the day - Georgia O'Keeffe
Addressing the balance here - another female artist as we are generally under represented in the world of art. Elaine and I had a very...
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Moira Carter
Jun 6, 20171 min read
Inspiring Artist of the Day - Mary Wondrausch
Mary Wondrausch - I've linked this image to a video of her on Vimeo Great lady, so very passionate about not only her own work but...
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Moira Carter
Jun 1, 20171 min read
Inspiring Artist of the day - Elizabeth Frink
Great Sculptor ...yes, but it's her prints I covet! This cormorant is plain fabulous - love, love the texture in the wings, the perfect...
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Moira Carter
May 30, 20171 min read
Inspiring Artist of the day - Barbara Hepworth
Love this! It's called 'Pelagos' and was made in 1946, Hepworth used Elm for this sculpture - that curve, the finish, the pale, pale...
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Moira Carter
May 23, 20171 min read
Inspiring Artist of the day - Ogata Kōrin
Irises by Ogata Kōrin In my bookcase is a copy of the Royal Academy catalogue for The Great Japan Exhibition, held in 1981. I went with...
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Moira Carter
May 18, 20171 min read
Inspiring Artist of the day - Anita Klein
Following a train of thought here - my last blog was about Paula Rego and her dancing ostriches ...she has also drawn angels and Anita...
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Moira Carter
May 16, 20171 min read
Inspiring Artist of the day - Paula Rego
Paula Rego tends to paint in series - collections - often based on popular subjects such as fairy tales, dogs ... and ballerinas....
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Moira Carter
May 12, 20171 min read
Inspiring Artist of the day - Vanessa Garwood
I noticed this gorgeous life drawing by Vanessa Garwood on Pinterest. I love to draw figures myself so seeing a really good life drawing...
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Moira Carter
May 11, 20172 min read
Inspiring Artist of the Day - Vojtěch Preissig
Now I love a second hand book shop - you never know what you will find and sometimes it's a gem! I'll always end up in the book shop when...
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Moira Carter
May 10, 20171 min read
Inspiring Artist of the day - Matsumoto Hoji
“Frog” by Matsumoto Hoji from a picture album, “Meika Gafu”, 1814 My all time favourite Japanese print by Matsumoto Hoji. Those of you...
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Moira Carter
May 9, 20172 min read
Inspiring Artist of the day - Leonardo da Vinci
The artist I most wanted to draw like when I was about fifteen. I so wanted to be able to draw an angel like the one we see here in...
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Moira Carter
May 7, 20171 min read
Inspiring Artist of the Day - Max Ernst
In my last blog in this series I mentioned that I'd happily stuff Sargent's 'Carnation, Lily,Lily, Rose' under my coat and steal it away...
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Moira Carter
May 6, 20171 min read
Inspiring Artist of the day : John Singer Sargent
Another of my first loves... his painting Carnation Lily, Lily, Rose. This painting in the words of Charles Richard Cammell - one of the...
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Moira Carter
May 5, 20172 min read
Inspiring Artist of the day : Sir Edward Burne-Jones
The first painting I fell in love with was 'King Cophetua and the Beggar maid'... I was around six or maybe eight years old, when dad had...
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Moira Carter
May 4, 20171 min read
Inspiring Artists of the day - Lucienne Day
Textile designer - a seminal moment in the history of textile design - Calyx furnishing fabric, 1951: What's not to admire?! It was free...
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