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Lockdown Reflection
With a collection of work rich in visual feeling, I cannot help but hold an amount of disappointment that it will not be submitted for...

samralphsstandring
Aug 11, 20201 min read


Listening to my subconscious
Giving myself time to breath in a quiet room. To digest the vast amounts of information I have absorbed and revelled in. Where is all...

samralphsstandring
Dec 28, 20192 min read


Catch Up
It’s been far too long since I last posted. I Have been working hard to bring life and art together which, has been so important in my...

samralphsstandring
Dec 27, 20191 min read


The house and the landscape
The continuity of the house in its subtle form feels like its becoming less of an importance within the landscapes that I am creating. Is...

samralphsstandring
Sep 13, 20191 min read


Artist Residency
Throughout June I was lucky enough to be chosen as Artist in Residence at a local Secondary School. This was a wonderful experience which...

samralphsstandring
Sep 10, 20191 min read


Moments of clarity
Sitting in the midday sun, reading Louise Bourgeois- La famille by Thomas Kellein, 2006. The introduction is enlightening and creates a...

samralphsstandring
Jun 29, 20191 min read


Chalk the Walk
I was recently asked to do some street art activities at the annual carnival in my local town. I prepared a board for children to make...

samralphsstandring
Jun 18, 20191 min read


A Safe Place
The holding back of using the human form in my practice has, in affect, taken me back to ‘little boxes’. It has opened my mind and...

samralphsstandring
Jun 18, 20192 min read


Expanding Horizons
How do you express pain, trauma, memory? Im using myself as the subject. Can I draw out the internal kept deeply private inside my mind....

samralphsstandring
May 30, 20192 min read


Oh Vienna!
The rebellious Klimt who refused to fit ‘in the box, body language symbolism and the relationship with phsyco analysis. Im captivated in...

samralphsstandring
May 30, 20191 min read


Externalising the Internal
portraiture is a natural starting point as my practice. it’s how I have been externalising what’s inside. The use of subject, discussed...

samralphsstandring
May 30, 20191 min read


Little Boxes: A personal exploration of creative arts and social confidence.
This is the title of my Proposal for Study. My starting point. I’m trying to combine a head full of memory, emotion, trauma, anti...

samralphsstandring
May 30, 20193 min read


Kids, Work, Midlife Crisis and Studying a Research Masters Degree!
I can't remember at what point I thought,'I know, I haven't got enough to do, lets do a masters degree!' But, do you know what? I am so...

samralphsstandring
May 26, 20192 min read
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