Elley Westbook – New Blog to document my final year studying Fine Art at Hereford College of Arts.

Published on 10.09.21

Well the B.A (Hons) Fine Art at any rate…who knows maybe I will be able to do the M.A at some point in the near future. Over the summer I have tried my hand at abstract painting. I’m in two minds about it really. I like to have a reason, narrative or concept for my artwork. There is always a story or a hook on which I hang my creations.

Well the B.A (Hons) Fine Art at any rate…who knows maybe I will be able to do the M.A at some point in the near future.

Over the summer I have tried my hand at abstract painting. I’m in two minds about it really. I like to have a reason, narrative or concept for my artwork. There is always a story or a hook on which I hang my creations.

New Blog to document my final year studying Fine Art at Hereford College of Arts.

That said, not so my doodles. They were just mindless, non thinking therapy and always have been a way to occupy my mind allowing it to process stuff.

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The paintings have sort of taken over from that, I have spent many hours of listening to books or music whilst painting this summer. But I also find them frustrating because I’m not getting them. They are not even somewhere to hide really. I suspect I am not very good and this makes me nervous, upset and I’m left feeling vulnerable. It hasn’t been an easy summer.

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I am really looking forward to getting back into college and getting my teeth stuck into a project. My thinking at the moment is a collection of stories. I want to record the memories of certain people, record conversations and see where it leads. It is seeping out of my projection project where I was struck by the different ways two people can remember the same event. I’m thinking I might write about the unreliability of memory for my dissertation….

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