Tag: wales

collaboration…

For the last few months I have been sharing a creative journey with the wonderful artist Sian Barlow. We have been drawing and painting together – inspired by our environment, nature and the reflection of SELF…

All this happening by Face-Time for the last four months… time flies when you are having fun! And producing inspiring work…

We also are collaborating on pieces of shared work… with some very interesting results…

Mindful breathing starts the session, followed by a series of warm up exercises… continuous line, other hand, blind, drawing from the centre, top to bottom, 10, 20, 30 second sketches… using all different kinds materials and tools from pencils, chalks, twigs and stones…

UNBOUND

UNBOUND is a site specific group exhibition at the Lady Street Gallery in Kidwelly, Carmarthenshire in partnership with Gwendraeth Arts Lab.

…UNBOUND is a very special show that I am part of and I have had the privilege of working along side Sian Barlow & Suzie Ross on a site specific exhibition at the Lady Street Gallery in Kidwelly, Carmarthenshire in partnership with Gwendraeth Arts Lab.

This is truly a beautiful art show, creating for a site specific show is very special in so many ways, working with other artists, working in an inspiring environment and stretching ones thinking of how we interact with the landscape of life…

My approach to UNBOUND was to look at how we as the human race – represented by ‘a mask’ and ‘a box’ imprint and bind into the landscape.
Placing ‘a mask’ & ‘a box’ in the under growth of the fabulous and magical gardens of the Lady Street Gallery leaving it, seeing how nature interacts with them and Unbound them…

Taking film and images over several weekends of the progress of nature…

If you are in the area it would be love to see you. It is open from:
Sat/Sun 4th/5th December 2021 11am – 4pm
Sat/Sun 11th/12th December 2021 11am – 4pm

I am giving a online tour and workshop on the Saturday 4th Dec at 11am.

Plus we are also doing a Zoom ‘In Conversation with Sian, Roz and Suzie’ Saturday, 4th December 2021 from 4 – 5pm
If you are interested you can book here

…grass project

Roz Moreton – Grass project
Roz Moreton – Grass project
Roz Moreton – Grass project
Roz Moreton – Grass project
Roz Moreton – Grass project
Roz Moreton – Grass project
Roz Moreton – Grass project
Roz Moreton – Grass project
Roz Moreton – Grass project
Roz Moreton – Grass project
Roz Moreton – Grass project
Roz Moreton – Grass project
Roz Moreton – Grass project
Roz Moreton – Grass project

For the last couple of years I have been drawing and photographing grasses; fields, sand dunes, gardens and single blades of grass.

It has made me think deeply about how we respond to grass; as a source of fuel, documenting our travels and journeys, defining status and power and challenging our perception of what we believe.

Out of this exploring of how I feel and think about grass, its energy, the power it delivers, political position and what it gives us when we see fields of grass for the first time, it is now time to develop various participation projects; looking at how others respond to grass, looking at a sense of place, mobility, energy and solitude.

 

 

…a year

cropped-dsc0130.jpgIts been just over a year since I last posted… what the hell is going on… have I nothing to say? I think not… so why I haven’t been talking… doing… posting? Who knows?

Me

I have been working on my grasses project; drawing… photographing… painting and getting a Artist Resident commission from Dawnus…

Has that taken me  a year?   No… so what else… thinking… oh yes a new job helping me get back in the work place after being ill and not been able to work for a few years…

Trying to save an historic school that I live next to… our Burry Port Town Council are pathetic… shameless and have gone for that cliché of knocking it down  and shock horror … building houses on it… So that brilliant idea of creating a public space to nurture creative endeavorers… has been lost to my local area… looking for a new inspiration…

More… I have got together with a group of creative likeminded women to form the Gwendraeth Arts Lab… and this week we found studio space for us… brilliant news.

If I stop now  – this is likely to get posted… so here goes… and more to follow…

 

…tynllwyn farm

a few days away in welshpool, powys, wales

our holidays at tynllwyn farm
looking over the hills towards welshpool
one from a series of welsh hills sketches
…basil soaking up the sun
welsh hill pencil sketch
…mum & dad laid to rest
welsh hill pencil sketch
welsh hill pencil sketch

…had a wonderful time away up in Welshpool, staying in a converted  barn at Tynllwyn Farm, the area is stunning, rolling hills, sweeping fields, historic building littered everywhere and endless inspiring scenery.

Ray my partner & I took all three dogs – the boys, Basil, Bryn and Qi – it was quite an adventure – puncture before we even got going! But it was lovely to see my lovely aunty Sonia and check on my mum & dad’s graves in the incredible location of Maesgwastad Cemetery in Welshpool.

I have been struggling with my art, for months but I ploughed  through my sketch book page after page doing pencil sketches of the landscape, some memory ones too – while we were still at the cottage…  I also got the Nikon out and took loads of photo’s – still struggling with light!!! Basil modelled for me as he bathed in the sunshine – he also did an incredible thing when I went over to my Nan’s grave to put a pot of daffs on it he laid right on top – I got rather choked – but raised a smile to my Nan – she absolutely loved dogs and had all waffs and strays in the house.

So now feeling inspired again – so now planning a larger piece of art work from the sketches I have done from the trip – so keep you posted…