Monday

Just a quick note for today.After a mad weekend and an even madder monday I have not given myself much of a break. I've done a little drawing but I felt like chucking it across the room. And now I have my friend Christine visiting and another friend Mick has stopped by I have also had a house full of teenagers, helped my daughter with her homework and cooked several different meals for fussy people. Roll on Wednesday when I can get to college and get stuck into some work. Also awake alot of the night thinking and worrying about uni don't know what to choose Cambridge illustration or Ipswich fine Art going round and round my head. But on a good note I am making some progress on the project .found a good piece of fabric to work on and done loads of research,probably too much. I hope to fill 2 sketchbooks.........bye for now.

Dream

A large public artwork that does put St Helens on the map. There is mixed feelings about the work within the community but as a whole fairly positive.Unfortunately from some angles it looks like a penis..............sorry it does. posted a few videos opinions so you can make up your own mind.........me well it is growing on me....that sounded rude didn't it !! I had to put johnnie welly on here what a character. Today I've had a bad headache so not been able to do much but I'm on the mend now.

College day.

Well here I am again neglecting my written diary and using this blog instead which is much more interesting for me. I even bought a new ink pen(not a Quill) to use for it.But I will do both just this blog more often.
    Today I went to college and I did  get quite a bit done I did some work and evaluation written up and put some research int my book and did some work on an embroidery design. The F.M. P brief is in  so I hope it will be ok and we had a meeting for all the foundation students to discuss where we are all going with the project. It was very interesting hearing what all the others where doing.I'm a little bit clearer of what it going on now and not quite so terrified. I somtimes wish I could get in for the extra day on Friday(I'm part time) but I don't have childcare organised for that day but if they will let me I could go in later after the school run and go back earlier for the afternoon run.
    It's been a good day but still have plenty of creative energy left to carry on a bit more. I'll let you know what.....watch this space.

I know it is a bit of a random picture.This was taken in St Helens at the end of the Liverpool trip.Everyone sat at the bottom of 'dream' I go away on a long trip with the college and I end up going to where I was born and lived till I got married an left for Suffolk. Built on Sutton Manor Collery.And my dad actually worked underneath where they where all sat.Funny where life takes you.

The Last interview.

I'm back from Cambridge and the interview went so well for the illustration course and I love the course....and I got in .....I'm confused now. I also got into the fine art course which was a suprise because  I feel I didn't think I came over well in the interview and they took over a week to let me know. So I have to make a decision.
     Now that all the interviews are out of the way I can now get down to my final major project properly without too many distractions of having to drag round placed with a huge very heavy portfolio.

     This evening I'm going to tweak the brief a little bit  and mention the books I will be using and also the artist I will be researching I am adding more to my list as I go but there are vast differences between the different artists I will be looking at such as enormous puplic art of Jaume Plensa (dream) the embroidery of people such as Amer Ghada, Tracey Emin and the tapestries of Grayson Perry. And I couldn't do a project on the North West without mentioning L.S. Lowry. I have even put that awful song that came out in the 70's ...........hope you enjoy that !!

Project.

Well, this is my second attempt at this post as the last one was deleted by accident ,and it took me ages too.Today I had an ill child at home but I did manage to nip into Needham Market (with the help of my son to babysit)  to a great little Aladin's cave of a shop called Halfpenny Home and bought two embroidery hoops  to use in the final project as embroidery is the way I seem to be going at the moment.I do intend to do some experementing with glass etching and this wil become clearer to you as I explain the project in a bit more detail.
     The project is called 'A Northern Town' and I will be exploring chilhood memories about growing up in the north of England, history and history about the industrial revolution which is quite important in the development of St Helens town and industries such as coal and glass. I will have to go for now, becauseI have an interview at the Anglia Ruskin University at Cambridge tomorrow and I need to get beauty sleep so I won't look too scarey.

 Another Place by Anthony Gormley
Taken on the college trip to Liverpool last year.
Crosby Beach 2012

Antony Gormley's Another Place at Crosby Beach

A wonderful place I visited on a college trip last year.I place I went to as a child before the wonderful art work. I will tell you about my project tomorrow.

Janexxx

Hello

Hello this is my blog go guide me through my final major project at the West Suffolk College in Bury St Edmunds.I am doing my foundation course and Hopefully I am all set to go to uni in September if all goes well.There is a diary on the go too but I am taking a belt and braces approach to I will cover all possibilities.As a mature student I don't think it is expected of me to have a blog so expect the unexpected!!!!! I might even ditch the diary although I did buy a very nice ink pen(not a quill) to write it with.