Deptford

^{I moved to Deptford from living in Halls at UEL, which I’m so grateful I’m out of them pizza box cells, and into a cool trendy town. The market takes place every Wednesday, Friday and Saturday, from around 7am until 4pm, so I like to stroll down and see what the stalls are selling, items from fresh fish, foods, groceries, to antiques, second hand clothes and collectibles.} 

On Deptford high street there is the many art galleries I didn’t even know about until I really had a look about, also a great art supplier located in a archway under the station It ^{is a space functioning as a studio workshop, materials suppliers and alternative gallery, focusing on work by our staff and emerging south London based artists on an invite only basis. I usually go in there and the artists are working on amazing images.
Another gallery I enjoy visiting just down my road is BEARSPACE usually showcasing artist’s work around the area. I bought a 24 page comic newspaper, on each page has a different illustrated comic usually pretty comical and at the back had the content & credits of the different illustrators. This is a great way to get upcoming artists work out there for only a few price. Other Galleries round Deptford that you must visit is The Agency, APT Gallery, Arch Gallery, Gallop and SE8 Check www.deptfordartmap.com.}

Pigeons and Peacocks

^{My dad works in Soho so I sometime meet him for lunch arrange where he works, while waiting for him a came upon this small corner shop that sold hundreds of fashion and art magazines. I bought my first copy of Pigeons and peacocks which is a fashion and lifestyle magazine and website published by London College of fashion, the magazine is distributed internationally and has built up a loyal following worldwide due to its intelligently crafted inspirational content.}

 ^{The magazine I bought was issue 5 so I searched over the internet to find the other 4 and bought them at a decent price of £15 each. This magazine was the main inspiration and start up to my final project, The images were so strong on there own I wanted to create more like them but with my with style incorporated so I started drawing on top of the images giving the models scars and tattoos making the pretty bright photographs darker and more detail to them. I didn’t want to make it look like I just copied it so I used my light box that my granddad made me to trace over the image to get the basic layout then carried on created the image I wanted, but after that I still didn’t think just a print of that was enough so I though I could change the material I was going to print on. Something that isn’t so common but would work with the image so I came up with wood.}

I also find alot of my inspiration from a website called sweetstation.com It has new upcoming architectures, photography, advertising, random posts and of course art, it updates everyday and I always check it.

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David Hughes

^{There was a another book sale at university today, I don’t normally books mainly because I cant afford them, but I saw that he had one of my all time favourite artists that I remember loving in my foundation at college.
David Hughes, The book is a square beautiful hard back of his drawings. David Hughes ‘Drawings’ appear in the exhibition in WilhelmBusch Museum Hannover from February 16th till May 4th 2003.
He discovering an interest in etching and produced "a small series of etchings based on a piece of jazz by Charlie Parker}

^{Describing himself as "a graphic designer who happens to illustrate."}

 ^{After studying at Twickenham Technical College in the early 1970s he came out and produced his first commissions for The Daily Express's cookery page but stopped to become a Postman for a year because of his lack creativity involved but then another post man inspired him to carry on with his work, as there was/ is a great market for his talent.}

The Croods

^{I went to my first ever 3D cinema viewing with my boyfriend to see the Croods.It was Brilliant! 
I’m from Hertfordshire (the countryside) so the cinema where I’m from is ten times smaller than any London cinema (and ten times cheaper). We went on a Wednesday to the Covent Garden Vue so we could get the 2 for 1 orange Wednesday deal and 2 for 1 pizza at pizza express which is just round the corner which was nice and handy. I thought it was going to be a cheap night but instead realised that cinema prices are not the same as Letchworth’s small cinema at only £7 a ticket where as Vue was £25 for ONE ticket although you get the 3D glasses free.
I couldn’t believe how expensive it was, but then I realised going to the cinema (in London) isn’t just about watching the film It’s the whole experience. Vue looks like top class West end Theatre from the front and carries on that way inside. In the 9 screen cinema we watch the Croods in 3D,The Croods in this animation are a prehistoric family who have escaped death simply by staying in their cave whenever they can and not wanting to explore until they have to leave the cave and get to the other side of the land they must adapt to there surroundings or die. I fur ally enjoyed was very imaginative weird creatures that I kept saying I would love to draw throughout the film. I came out and wanted to draw crazy prehistoric creatures.}
 

Stolen Space

^{Stolen Space Is a must see gallery if your interested in underground, urban, street art. It is just off Brick lane, a famous lane on account of to its trendy, vintage, hipster shops and laid back atmosphere throughout the bars and restaurants not forgetting the other side of the lane famous for the many Indian restaurants with the waiters trying to urged you in with their great deals.}

^{I visit Stolen space quite regularly mainly because I work near and like to walk back that way to the station so I can have a view. Today I went their not knowing Joram Roukes work was being exhibited. His work was spread around the walls of the gallery with bright large oil paintings and some framed work.
He was born in the Netherlands and his work has been shown Europe with shows in Copenhagen and London. His oil paintings are reflections on daily life situations in western society, filtered and reassembled in a collage-like manner. He using great layers and chaos of colour into his work brighten up the small gallery showing his work to the full potential. Using fragments of society and human behaviour but using animal’s head and bodies touching on dream and reality. The more I looked at his work the better it got discovering new details and shades leaving my eyes enjoying the warm colours.} 

The Light Show

^{The Hayward Gallery is defiantly in my top 5 London galleries; it never fails to impress me especially with the wide varieties of exhibitions and great artists always giving me inspiration. The gallery, a striking concrete form created in the Brutalist style of architecture that Londoners either love or hate. Personally I think it looks like a strange alien dragon but hey that’s me.}

I had herd a lot about the “Light Show” which was on ^{30th of January 2013 – 6th of May 2013 so me and my boyfriend thought we would have a cute date to the exhibition just before valentines day.}

 

 ^{The Light Show features works by 22 artists showcasing artworks created from the 1960s to the present day from sculptures to projections.}

^{The simple title suggests just what it is, a different type of art that shines, glistens, sparkles, glows and radiates light around the pristine white walls of the Hayward Gallery. From neon bright lights, florescent mists, staggering strobes and amazing light water features.}

^{Overall I really enjoyed myself, but moving from room to room looking at different shades of artificial light installations scattered around the gallery space isn’t my favourite type of exhibition and herd few people say “ that one was a bit crap, lets see the next one”, I defiantly expected more just because I had herd so much about it before so it upped my expectations. Some of it could have been positions better for example Dan Flavin’s seminal 1960s arrangements of the neon tubes is placed pretty much in the walk way to the next instillation encouraging the viewer to walk straight past it.}

^{I also didn’t enjoy queuing up for 20 minutes to walk through a pitch black corridor into another room that was just very bright light projected to a screen at the front with benches to sit on, we sat there for a while thinking something else was going to happen or appear, but unfortunately was disappointed.}

 ^{I enjoyed Doug Wheeler’s all white instillation, where we had to put plastic shower cap type things over our shoes and cross a white floor towards a glowing misty light in the distance that appears to suggest, by the merest adjustment of tones, an immense of space.}

^{My favourite instillation was Olafur Eliasson's sensational night garden, which reminded me of when I went on a school trip to France. They took us to this amazing light show in a theatre where water was squirted out in different directions lights and strobes shone at it of all different colours similar to the amazing mesmerizing free light and musical show like no other in Las Vegas outside Bellagio Hotel which I have also had the privilege of viewing.}

First Thursday

^{On the first Thursday of every month over 170 galleries and museums in east London are open till 9pm with free events, talks, exhibitions private views and not forgetting free booze.
So me and a few of my friends decided to get together and visit the late night open galleries hoping for inspiring upcoming artwork and a few cheeky free drinks too.}

^{I googled it before hand and printed out a map from the website of where we should visit but you can also take the free art bus if your just a bit lazy.}

^{Starting off at Beach London on Cheshire Street because I love this gallery and there were two artists I wanted to see Crispin Finn the design printmaking duo and  French one of my favourite artist and illustrator s at the moment.}

^{Crispin Finn are a married design duo they hand print and produce everything in there trade mark colours of red, white and blue, with prints in galleries such as the V&A, The Design museum, Junk Skull and Beach London.
They first exhibited ‘PACK RAT’ in November 2011 and Beach has showcased their artwork and print products ever since.
The work is simple but really effective always sticking with three signature colours usually replicating the classic 1950 American style look. My boyfriend has this hand printed print by them.}

^{French - Richard ‘Funeral French’ Sayer an amazing illustrator and artist originally from Albersotch but now mainly based in south London. He started skating along with drawing at a young age and says his first board influences his work more now then when he was younger.” No one makes crazy graphics anymore.””Graphics should be rough, dirty and gnarly.” I like the raw darkness, the gore and the crazy detail.” And that is clear, as his work is that. He currently does drawing and etching by people like Doré and Goya and has exhibited widely worldwide, and done commercial work for Carhartt, and his own company Witchcraft Skateboards. I have a poster on my wall of his work and he influences my work a lot.}