The Curators! Jason, Jette and Frank Plant
Caronline Money's Work
Peter's Work
Frank waiting infront of Inge's work
Patil's graphic work
Peter infront of my painting
Daily cortado and pastries love
My trial piece
The metal artists next door to our studios
Juan's beautiful work
Studio kitchen floor
Love the building details
Juan showing off
Erick on a break in the courtyard
Peter in front of his sketches
Detail love
Ericks work
Abby midway through her painting
Abby
Jose Rodrigues-Gerada - love his wall murals!
Erick
Sitges at the end of the day trip
Sitges harbour
Sitges streets
Sitges
Discussing final details
I took photos of Inge to put into her piece
Details
Beautiful gothic details
Night out with Abby & Caroline
Inge and Heather
The Studio Arts Option; Summer Intensive 2010, “No Man’s Land” Exhibition
After my son turned a year old and I had literally been a feeding machine, I decided to take time out for myself and go back to my passion of art and photography. I flew to Barcelona for 2 weeks, ridden with guilt for leaving my child with his father and had the intention of doing photographic work, but ended up doing a huge abstract free-flow painting. I created a large abstract painting (2x1.5m - that I hadn't logistically thought of transporting back to Bahrain!) and smaller test paintings.
The beauty of the workshop was that it was laissez-faire with the value add of seeing how other artists practice and understanding various processes. Guest artists came in to give talks, such as the globally renowned Jorge Rodriguez-Gerada who created urban large-scale mural portraits and colossal land art, which was very inspiring!
A must-see field trip the group took was to the quaint seaside town of 'Sitges' and on the last day of our course, we went for a group lunch where I got a reality-check lecture from an older artist about identity, which I needed to hear and we became fast friends later on.
The experience ended with a group exhibition called 'No Mans Land' that we put up on our own in the main hall.
