Portraits through the years

The talent of the person beside you

I wee while ago i was involved in an exhibition with Moray Art Centre. The exhibition was for volunteers to show their work in a group show. It was a great experience to work with some new people in the creative world and help out a bit.

Today is the start...

Today i am going in to my studio and i am going to make a painting! no matter what it is i am going to make some thing with paint! If i don;t i am going out and finding a full time job!

some guys tattoo

Saw this on a tattoo website and totally fell in love with the poem. Not posting his tattoo because it was horrendous but this i lovely!

“odi et amo. quare id faciam, fortasse requiris.
nescio, sed fieri sentio et excrucior.”
-catullus

it means, “i hate” and “i love” in latin. from the most beautiful latin poem ever.

“i hate and i love. why do i do this, you might ask?
i know not, but i feel that it happens and i am tortured for it.”

Breathe Me

Help, I have done it again
I have been here many times before
Hurt myself again today
And, the worst part is there's no-one else to blame

Be my friend
Hold me, wrap me up
Unfold me
I am small
I'm needy
Warm me up
And breathe me

Ouch I have lost myself again
Lost myself and I am nowhere to be found,
Yeah I think that I might break
I've lost myself again and I feel unsafe

Be my friend
Hold me, wrap me up
Unfold me
I am small
I'm needy
Warm me up
And breathe me

Be my friend
Hold me, wrap me up
Unfold me
I am small
I'm needy
Warm me up
And breathe me

Re-decorated Cairn.

As part of the Retrace exhibition in Ullapool. I created a cairn made up of decorated pebbles for a trail around the village. This was then placed on the shore of Loch Broom off West Shore Street to view.

I realised that by making this a piece of work that people could interact with meant that it would not last that long in its intended place. I liked the idea of leaving the pebbles on the beach for people to do with as the please. A week after i installed the cairn it had all but gone from the beach.

Retrace: Graduate Show. An Talla Solais, Ullapool

Five recently graduated artists return to Ullapool to present an unmissable exhibition of collaborative and individual work. Tiffany Bottomley, Christine Morrison, Mary Somerville, Matt Stockl and Rhiannon Van Muysen first came together in 2006 during the portfolio course at Bridge House Art before dispersing to begin degree courses at Scotland's three main Art Schools. The diversity of the exhibiting artists work will offer a glimpse at the wide range of specialisation offered in Scotland's contemporary arts institutions and will include stop motion animation, installation, painting, printmaking and illustration.

Tiffany Bottomley, B.A. (hons.) Painting and Printmaking, Glasgow School of Art,
Christine Morrison, B.A. (hons.) Intermedia Art, Edinburgh College of Art, (currently; M.F.A. Art, Space and Nature, Edinburgh College of Art)
Mary Somerville, B.A. (hons.) Fine Art, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art,
Matt Stockl, B.A. (hons.) Illustration, Edinburgh College of Art,
Rhiannon Van Muysen, B.A. (hons.) Fine Art, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art.

During the opening we had a trail of collaborative videos, projections and installations as a one off event.