Aine Scannell - Blog
Oct
11
2008
Meg Rahaim (U.S.A.) made this life sized installation called 'The Line Forms Here', using wood cut. I love the nature of the images and the way she has used the woodcut process to realize these images which have an everyman aspect. Its the sort of thing that I mainly go for myself and of course I love most things pertaining to anatomy.
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Oct
11
2008
This is a large monoprint I created during the period 1997-99. It's about 80 x 100 cm. I can not remember what kind of paper it's on although it is a fairly heavy gsm. I had access to a litho press in the printmaking studio at Wimbledon School of art and one of the technicians there Simon Burder, mentioned that you could actually use this to make monoprints so I thought that I would have a
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Oct
11
2008
Today, I received notice of an exhibition of the work of Sylvia Buettner being opened just about now. If I was in a position to, then I would love to attend.
In her prints and drawings, I like how she interplays animals (of whom many, are from the monkey family) as well as artefacts from various cultures - these often include musical instruments. Her use of colour and composition is
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Oct
09
2008
I logged on to Etsy as I had been taken there in the course of following through via some other links. Essentially - I found myself on there and thought to myself 'Oh I know - I will pop along to my friend Elisabeth Omdahl's new shop on there to see how things are going and whether theres anything that I can do to support her.
Anyway I added her to my favourites ( she is after all an artist
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Sep
27
2008
I'm talking about other artists who are participating in the 6 sides 2 every Story project initiated and co ordinated by Candace Nicol.
Received an update today which I hope will 'kickstart' my fellow participants to get our cube finished. Once that's done I can send all the stuff including jpgs to Candace.
I really like this cubes proof
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Sep
26
2008
I have updated my print studio blog
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Sep
26
2008
Set In Libya In the 1970’s this is the story of a young boy who lives in Tripoli with his mother and father. His parents are educated people and his father a businessman, who has to go away on trips quite often. So the boy, Suleiman, has to spend a lot of time on his own and/or in the company of his mother.
The person who wrote this story, Hisham Matar, is actually the boy, as an adult.
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Sep
25
2008
If you don't already know of this image resource - then check it out !!
http://images.wellcome.ac.uk/
Ivory anatomical model
L0034188 Credit: Wellcome Library, London
Ivory anatomical model of a pregnant female
circa 17th century
Collection: Wellcome Images
Copyrighted work available under Creative Commons by-nc 2.0 UK: England & Wales, see http://images.wellcome.ac.uk/indexplus/page/
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Sep
22
2008
It's been too long since I posted on here and I thought I would start with an ending. Meaning that I have just finished reading Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones.
The setting for this book, is a small island village somewhere in the Pacific Ocean and I think it may be not too far from Australia.
The main character is a young girl called Matilda, I would imagine that she is about 10,11 or 12. I don't
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Sep
17
2008
View my page on INKTERACTION!
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Sep
09
2008
تها. ولم تعفي مساحة التوالد هذه أدق جزئيات محيط وجودنا أو المتشكل من ذرات أجسامنا. وان كان الفن يشكل مقياسا لحساسية مجتمعاتنا وتحسس وجودها السري في نفس الوقت. فانه الآن فكرة متولدة ووالدة. ولم يكن عرض ترينالا فالو إلا نوعا من ترمومتر حدسي للمتوفر من تجارب هؤلاء الفنانين المشاركين. وان لم يكن بالإمكان إحصاء التجارب الكرافيكية العالمية بشكل مطلق, فبالإمكان حصر البارز منها وتحت عناوين استدلالية.
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Aug
17
2008
I put a print through my etching press this evening and that is the proof to me that I am OK and back in action -- this time last week it was a very different picture. I was just utterly miserable with feverishness and a dull continuous ache in my lower abdomen.
It was hard to do anything at all. I was weakened by the blasted bug and it was dominating me. It really was not a case of snapping
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Aug
08
2008
Here is a project that I have become recently involved in. I fairly recently requested a wooden cube from Candace Nicol, project initiator, based in Nevada, USA and am now co ordinating some of my fellow printmakers at FDPW to carve onto the remaining five sides.
Wish me luck, as it's a pretty small cube !! which is quite challenging in more ways than one.
Fife and Dunfermline
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Jul
31
2008
Somehow or other I ended up on the New England Monotype Guild's website recently and I really liked this image by an artist called Sharon Coffin.
I think it is for the nature of the image itself as well as the sparcity in the sense that it didn't really have an edge. I had to impose that be adding a visual thin black frame.
The other monotype of Sharron's, that I quite was/is the one here
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Jul
13
2008
It's been a while since I posted as to how things have been. Well I am still using a crutch to get around. I have of course tried from time to time, to do a stretch of distance without it to see how I am and it's just completely impossible for me to 'walk' without it. I kind of hobble, with my left leg jutting out towards the left and as if one leg is shorter than the other. Its an awful
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Jul
11
2008
I can't remember where or how I came across this printmaker artists work but I liked its anatomically grotesque edge which at the same time is extremely beautiful.
Amber Dye (her real name) hails from Seattle, WA, by way of Philadelphia and South
Florida)
She makes her etchings at the
printmaking studio in the Sevshoon arts centre.
Amber completed her BFA in printmaking and drawing from the
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Jul
06
2008
Just thought I'd post this on here. Its an image from absolutely ages ago that I still like. It was unusual for me in that I used "tippex" onto a photo I came across in a newspaper and at a much later date stuck it onto a water colour sheet.
It is something to do with our relationship with animals and the fact that we give different status to different species as in e.g., cat (I have two
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Jul
05
2008
This shows the back and front cover of the most recent novel that i have read. In itself, it’s somewhat of an event, as I think the last one previous to that, which I read, was “The Lovely Bones” which must have been about two years ago now. I seem to recall that my lovely friend Linda Haslam, gave me that and another book which I completely forget the name of, for a Christmas present.
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Jul
05
2008
YIKES!!!.........It's 5th July and I am amazed at how fast the time is going.!! What you have to appreciate is that I am an extremely ancient being and time goes faster faster and speedier as you go through it.
Actually I do remember when I was a child in Ireland how the summer holidays from school went incredibly slow and I just was amazed at how long a stretch of time those 12 weeks or so
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Jul
01
2008
Gee whizz, did you ever start typing in your blog entry and compose about three sentences only to realize that you had not placed the cursor in the box well - that's what I just did right now argh !!
Its July the first already and not much has been done on my part lately in relation to my art making but then I suppose you could say that I have been ill. And yet it doesn't seem quite like that
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Jul
01
2008
Artbooks at ning dot com, is an international online forum for artists, curators, librarians, students and researchers interested in artists' books and the book arts.
Lets create an online social network for creators of artists' books, curators, librarians, researchers, bookbinders, zine-makers and students who want to discover more about artists books and related topics.
Please do come along
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Jun
25
2008
It's Friday and I am in the studio again, morning is the absolute worst time of day with my health condition, as it stands.
I wake up and once I start to move it truly is agonizing. I can't hep but scream out or cry out with the pain and things were so bad this morning that I couldn't even get my trousers on and had to ask C. to help. The left lower leg is dead as a plank. Moving out of
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Jun
21
2008
"What can you do with a drunken sailor , what can you do with a drunken sailor, what can you do with a drunken sailor, early in the morning !!" I don't know where there are any keyboard digits for musical notes but this must be surely how I appeared to C. as I crashed into the wall of our sitting room, as I caught my crutch on the chair and went crashing to the floor earlier on this evening.
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Jun
16
2008
'Unbelievably here I am in agony again with my flippin nerve leg pain. And it's because I went to the hospital today for a scheduled appointment for an injection in my spine. Before I went, it wasn't there - I was relatively OK pain wise.
But let me tell you, having an injection in your spine with a so called "local anesthetic" (some gel that they rub on) is not a good idea or to be
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Jun
07
2008
Things seem to conspire against me getting around to making a post here on my blog.
Well- it's a beautiful summer evening and although my leg is still painful - I am not feeling too bad, on the whole. It's really difficult to know, how my condition 'stands' (ha ha ha) but it seems that this leg is going to be around 'in the state that it is in' for some time yet. I surprised myself this
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May
25
2008
Well that means mostly working on my laptop here in my garage/studio. I suppose I ought to try to just call it "my studio" but I keep saying the garage. It's just that it has a huge pull up door opening the entire front wall (as it were). Not that I ever open it. It's got stuff leaning up against it and one mono print stuck on the door. Today I managed to clear out all the drawers of my Ikea
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May
25
2008
I can't remember where I left off yesterday evening, though I think it was that I ended up admitted to the local hospital. It must have been about 9.30 or 10 by then. They gave me some tablets and I can not remember now how I slept though I think I did eventually get to sleep. The pain in the nerve in my left leg continued on and on. This made it extremely difficult to find any position
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May
24
2008
For the last 5 to 6 weeks, my condition (scoliosis) has really "escalated" for want of a better word. I have been in a lot more pain in my lower back and my leg nerve pain has been having a "field day".
Then about 3 weeks ago or just under that, it hit the high notes of extreme pain in my left leg. The whole "friggin" length of it. It was unbearable and I was beside myself with the pain.
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May
15
2008
Just loved this piece, which I came across recently, by Anne Beresford. I did have an email from Anne, following my enthusiastic response to her works on metal but due to yet another computer crash, this has now "disappeared" !!.
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May
15
2008
You You You You You You You You You You You You You You You You You You You You You You You know when you keep coming across a name of a person and you can't always figure out how you know of it, or where you came across it before, well Sarah Hopkins was a case in
point.
Earlier this year I came across her "again" on Facebook. I had had to join Facebook previously, in relation to accessing
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May
15
2008
I recently came across Anika's work and rather liked this piece of hers in particular.
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Apr
29
2008
I came across Doug (i.e., Douglas Pierre Baulos) on Flickr a fair while back.
I quite liked his work; some collages were very appealing as well as some of his drawings. There were two of his installations that I particularly liked. Anyway so here is my favorite - there is no title for it nor any details.
From looking through Doug’s c.v. there is some link going on with Cambodia, as he
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Apr
12
2008
Hooray because my blog is back online. It's purely by chance that I discovered this to be the case. It was taken off line on the 3rd of April for a "spam check" by Google. The email or notice from them, said that it would be checked within four business days. However the actual amount of time was more like nine days or seven business days. BUT I suppose I ought to thank my lucky stars
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Apr
01
2008
I came across this image of a print of a chair by an artist called Sarah Watson, a few days back. It's a sugar lift with spit bite. The latter is a process that I have never had a go at but would love to. I really wasn't taught anything much at Wimbledon School of art where I did a postgraduate printmaking course. There was an overemphasis on theory and practical print studio practice was
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Mar
27
2008
I was just talking about printmaker Denise Walker in my print studio blog, yesterday and lo and behold - I receive an invite to her private view. It will be taking place in a couple of weeks time. It was she, who got me started doing some woodblock printmaking about this time last year. In my print studio blog yesterday - I was saying that whereas I had been making wood blocks where I
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