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'God gives you the face. Smiling you have to do yourself.'
Irish saying
Always trust yourself and your own feeling…if it turns out
that you are wrong, then the natural growth of your inner
life will eventually guide you to other insights. Allow your
judgements their own silent, undisturbed development, which
like all progress, must come from deep within and cannot be
forced or hastened. Everything is in gestation and then
birth…to let each impression and each embryo of a feeling
come to a completion, entirely in itself, in the dark, in
the unsayable, the unconscious, beyond the reach of one's
own understanding, and with deep humility and patience to
wait for the hour when a new clarity is born: this alone is
what it means to live as an artist: in understanding - as in
creating.
Rainer Maria Rilke
'...How bored have I been sometimes in front of certain
works of art...And what if we decided to give some space to
lightness, to a dose of madness...enabling us, just for a
moment, to avoid the traps of immobility and preconceived
ideas, to inverse the roles by using our own basic madness
as raw material for transformation, metamorphosis and
reinvention.'
Eddy Panger, artist
‘During January and February at Slimbridge in
Gloucestershire, starlings gather at dusk before roosting.
From 4.30pm for a period of approximately 40 minutes, small
groups of birds flew in from all directions converging into
an ever-expanding swathe. Against a cloudy and darkening sky
the starlings massed together flying above us like a
continuous hail of arrows. At one point a sparrow hawk was
amongst them and the bird cloud split in two – one half
peeling off to the left, the other to the right;
miraculously no two birds ever appeared to touch – a million
separate dynamic marks in the sky. The bird formation
described a drum, stretched into an elastic strip, then the
funnel of a tornado, becoming invisible as they turned
sharply in the air. It was an unpredictable display of
shape-shifting geometry. As the starlings circled, flying
lower and lower preparing to roost, the noise from the
beating of their wings was thrilling - a huge engine flying
over-head. The starlings came down suddenly, almost
invisible, as one body. The sky was empty. I had watched a
drawing master class.’
Alison Wilding, artist
Sublimation…Louise Bourgeois talks of sublimation and
considers the process a gift. For her, it provides the
impulse behind her sculptural work.
'I feel that if we are able to sublimate, in any way we do,
that we should feel thankful. I cannot talk about any other
profession, but the artist is blessed with this power.'
Susan Hippe BA(Hons) SGFA
I was born in South Africa and have lived in a variety of
countries (USA, Denmark, Germany, France, Great Britain).
Since graduating in 1999, I have been exhibiting and
producing work on a regular basis, including one public and
numerous private commissions. I have had several solo
exhibitions in London and taken part in group exhibitions in
New York, Paris, Edinburgh, Spain, London and the UK. In terms of style I am primarily concerned with movement. In
a way, the act of drawing is choreographic; a drawn line is
both a graphic entity and a physical movement that is at
once spontaneous and precise, it is accomplished in one
continuous movement. The pen hits the surface running and
leaves it in the same fashion. I translate my interest in movement on a visual pictorial
level. The movement of a body, voice or melody transgresses
into sweeping mass of lines capturing the energy and
eroticism of the moving figure. I want to create dynamic images, which energise the viewer,
whatever the theme and mood of the picture; I want to
reflect my own energy within the physical process of making. I like to combine a vigorous working process with humour,
exuberance and eccentricity.
Born in Johannesburg, I was inspired by the vitality and
richness of colour, which surrounded me in South Africa. I often like to combine drawing with mixed media⁄collage: I
find it interesting to incorporate the use of more unusual
media – either as support or collage material – such as
cosmetic pads, coffee filters, pencil sharpener residue,
plastic, quilt, textile, aluminium foil, balloons, etc.,
exploring the possibilities of the apparently banal objects
of the consumer’s world. Inspiration is everywhere. Popular culture, street life,
folklore, travelling, opera, ballet, theatre, daily life
experiences and observations. An important aspect is also
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