I spent time this morning creating a quick and dirty one page advert to go in the Drawfest Annual, an … More
Author: alittleart
A while back I ran away from a twentymumble-year corporate career to be a feckless art student. Since then I've dirtied my hands with, metaphorically and/or literally, bronze and ceramic sculpture, photography, and digital and traditional illustration. Mask making was one discovery, dovetailing with my interests in teaching and performing improvised theatre.
Mask, tiled and grouted
Nearly there: five shades of green vitreous 10mm tiles, colours are randomly placed except around the eyes, and black around the mouth … More
Masks in the news, and my kitchen
My eye was caught by this striking black and white photo of masked protesters in Milan. Meanings mutate! This image … More
Mosaic sun #1
The base for an experimental ‘melted’ mosaic, in raku stoneware paperclay. This has been covered with a black slip, and … More
Il Dattore – The Doctor
The bird mask in the medieval European tradition is a sinister reminder of mortality – plague doctors wore beaked masks … More
Using my powers for good
On February 22 there was an earthquake in NZ’s 2nd largest city, Christchurch. There’d been one there last year, in … More
Currently working on . . .
Current project, a poster for a “darkly comic” improvised theatre group, with a brief from the producer of “go a … More
