January 7, 2010 • 5:46 pm 0
Another incredibly beautiful day made even more enjoyable by purchasing hard core insulated winter snow boots, fingerless gloves, whipped cream on hazelnut lattes and pints of tanglefoot! We went walking for hours and my husband played with the camera and the snow as much as I did! Many of these photographs will find their way into new paintings.
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January 6, 2010 • 6:45 pm 1
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With the snow falling I picked my camera and in my world this is what I saw.
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January 2, 2010 • 8:07 pm 0
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• 5:19 pm 0
The winter holiday and basking and beautiful blue moons have  meant that I have had  moments here and there to work the old fashioned way making simplistic and free flow pattern formations in my moleskin with a good black pen.
This way of working is ultimately one of my favorites as I am not trying to create a well constructed image or thinking about anything like the complexity of colour. Just shape and mark. It is always like returning to something old and ancient, grasping the charcoal stick in one hand and seeing the cave wall and that great and quiet private synergy that happens with simple tools in a personal space.Â
Cutting out photocopies of roman statues, gods,angels and coins from an old illustrated encyclopedia I then  created another layer to the works giving it more but small detail. The little cut out people and objects were then stuck into my sketch book. Scanned and then tweaked in Illustrator and painted extras with my Wacom tablet meant that I can have the final image twenty feet high or a small swatch on a fabric as it sits on the desktop as a vector graphic. Nice. All the fabric designs have given a new edge to my next show in 2010/11 where these will be framed behind glass and sold as limited editions.
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December 31, 2009 • 1:44 pm 2
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When the snow and the egg nog season arrives I feel I am given a graceful opportunity to switch off my urge to paint. To surrender that part of  my life and  just kick back and enjoy with abandonment. Every year around this time my paints go in a box and get packed away into drawers I allow myself time to soak up life rather than paint it.
Making this space in my world gives me  freedom to play with paper and bunting, fairy lights and draw on our window with chalk pens. This year we wrote eskimo words for snow all over the little pains of glass. We made our flat into a real life painting which we will exist in for the rest of festive winter months.
However, with February 23rd 2010  looming and the deadline to complete this blog and upload 100 new works I invite you to have a sneak preview of  seven of my fabric designs. I started these in November and began by drawing them by hand. I then scanned them into Adobe Illustrator and then traced to become vector graphics, then flooded them with colour.
The designs are very complicated and therefore each image you see is a very tiny part of the bigger picture. What they will become I do not know, but in my vision they become fabulous dresses on a catwalk or wallpaper. I have made initial enquiries as to the cost of printing the designs on to cotton and silk in the new year but I will have to wait and see. As will you.
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November 16, 2009 • 10:33 am 0
This month I attended the Henry Moore Textiles private view at Pallant House and then spent a few days thinking about my work on fabric.I have had the idea to reproduce my work onto textiles and then design clothes for a long, long time now, but feel more inspired than ever. Many artists have looked at me with horror when I mention thoughts about this and other surfaces in general. Unfortunately I cant help thinking that this is quite sad as out there are so many beautiful creative outlets beyond the square canvas and the white gallery walls. The moleskin sketch above is the beginning of some fabric ideas which I will be painting in watercolour and then scanning. This will then move me forward with ideas about the final fabric and the repetition of image on material. The images will be traced live on Illustrator and then fed back into my digital diary as vector graphics or I may just scan the originals to leave it more painterly and classic. The essence of everything that I produce is beauty.
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November 8, 2009 • 10:03 am 0
A collection of cards and signed giclee prints by Joanne Webb are available to buy from the following link:
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October 30, 2009 • 4:33 pm 3
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I am currently working on seven panels at once now as well as the portrait and decided this week I would invest in an electric sander. The panel paintings require lots of layering of paint and usually after I have done this I begin sanding. I strip them all back  in order to reveal detailed work from previous painting sessions.This technique has always been labored and time consuming as well as messy. I want to reveal the unexpected beauty beneath. I then paint over with another layer and providing that  a few of millimeters are of luminous colour are still intact at the end then it would have been worth all the effort. The fear that this fiery little DIY number could potentially wreck six months careful work was fairly visible with the shaking hands but once destruction was viewed as an opportunity  I surfed across the panels like it was an iron.
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October 26, 2009 • 4:21 pm 0
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October 20, 2009 • 8:00 pm 1
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October 12, 2009 • 6:53 pm 0
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September 30, 2009 • 5:34 pm 0
Â
Group ExhibitionÂ
‘Stride Openart competition’
Dates of show
28th September until 10th October 2009
Venue
Oxmarket Centre of Arts
[John Rank Gallery]
St Andrews Court
Off East Street
Chichester
PO19 1YH
Directions and Information
T:01243 779103
E:info@oxmarket.com
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September 27, 2009 • 5:15 pm 0
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September 25, 2009 • 5:16 pm 2
It struck me as I was uploading screenshots of the current portrait as it evolves, that what we are seeing is a private life. No-one is sitting for me as a model, it is not based on anyone I know, it is completely imaginary. As I make small changes and work on her features and then pause for each session, I find another face stares back.Â
It’s almost like another person each time. We are only able to realize this because I am logging the event otherwise it would lost, you would never see it or know because all you would see is the final work. I wonder how many faces will appear until I reach the final stage.Â
This theme was particularly poignant and echoed when I visited Pallant House, Chichester, over the weekend and went to see the Outsider exhibition. One of the artists exhibiting had 28 personalities, all of which were artists. She had three works in the show, each in a different style and unrecognizable as being the same person unless you realized the connection. She also had different childhood memories, friends and names for each artist personality. It was after seeing this that I saw all the different women in one painting.
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September 16, 2009 • 7:00 pm 0
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September 14, 2009 • 4:31 pm 0
The recent exhibition ‘Crosspollination’ at the Oxmarket Centre of Arts in Chichester, over the last couple of weeks was a real success. A humble thank you to everyone that visited the show and for those of you who came from afar because you were following the events via this blog. It was great to know that my plodding along on ‘one year one hundred works’ was not in vain! Paintings, prints and cards found new homes and because of this we are now in the throws of organizing another show for 2010. We are thinking of sticking around the Chichester area and may well head back to the oxmarket but in a slightly larger space. Work on the epic portrait is really coming along. She has dark hair and floats in turquoise luminous waters set amongst a winters scene. Watch this space for a possible ‘live web cam’ where you can watch the paintings as they twist and turn and look out for jelly fish and octopus paintings!
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September 9, 2009 • 6:27 pm 0
Exhibition title
‘Crosspollination’
New works,prints and cards by Joanne Webb
Dates of show
31st August until 12th September 2009
Venue
Oxmarket Centre of Arts
[John Rank Gallery]
St Andrews Court
Off East Street
Chichester
PO19 1YH
Directions and Information
T:01243 779103
E:info@oxmarket.com
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September 1, 2009 • 8:36 pm 0
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The Oxmarket private view on Sunday went really well and it was great to see such so many people out and about in Chichester on a Sunday! So, many thanks if your reading this! By the end of the evening the wine was making deaf  of course but ……..all in all there were some amazing reactions and a lot of positivity about the show. My husband and I spent what seemed an age cutting out the 200 paper butterflies which circle the paintings and we did almost cry when we started pinning them to the walls earlier that day, realizing that the vision required precision and  blisters, but I must say the final look was grand. Awesome comments in the book as well today including my favorite which was ” mostly rubbish and I don’t know about £350.00 for a drawing but I think £25.00 will do!” anon ………well I only have one thing to say that really! Do come along to the show as it goes on until the 12th august. Here is a little doodle I did on Bank Holiday Monday with a bit of a hangover.
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August 27, 2009 • 5:59 pm 0
Its that private view time of year again! Time to get the glad rags on and avoid all the glasses of wine! ‘Crosspollination’ will start this Sunday evening at 6pm at the Oxmarket Centre of Arts in central Chichester. If you cant make the private view but you would like to buy work then have a look at our online store http://joannewebb.bigcartel.com/
Cards, prints and originals will be for sale on the night in the John Rank Gallery. Alongside this show will be three other artists exhibiting as part of the four galleries season. The show will be on for 2 weeks only. Â
Exhibition title ‘Crosspollination’Â
Dates of show 31st August until 12th September 2009Â
Private View Sunday 30th August 6-8pmÂ
Venue Oxmarket Centre of Arts ,St Andrews Court ,Off East Street,Chichester ,PO19 1YHÂ
Directions and InformationÂ
[ Head down the small alleyway beside Marks and Spencers food hall on East Street ]Â
T:01243 779103Â
E:info@oxmarket.comÂ
www.oxmarket.com
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August 23, 2009 • 7:25 pm 0
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• 11:59 am 0
Flipping over the panel to a landscape horizontal I then added my waterslide decal paper.Ludicrously difficult until you realize that you need to do it real slow and literally slide it off at a snail pace rubbing the skin down as you go  a bit like wallpaper. Bubbles pop up everywhere and if you haven’t prepped your acrylic spray good enough the whole image starts bleeding…..but with interesting results.The trick is to prepare many sheets at once so you can collage it all together and work on very small cut outs instead of large images.I wanted these little panels to look almost chaotic and messy but then you look deeper and you see the little birds, the plants and the wildlife right under your feet. Stage 4 is the oil painting over the top with a flat colour possibly grey.
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August 17, 2009 • 3:22 pm 0
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August 12, 2009 • 2:19 pm 0
Have you ever thought about supporting an artist or creative business? If you love my work and my new range of products and would like to support me with a cash gift then there is now a new donation feature to the right of page which allows you to do just that. Your donations will support me in art materials such as gesso panels, paint, paper,accountant fees, printing,packaging and lots more.It will also enable me to expand and develop my business ideas and products and live the dream!
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August 10, 2009 • 2:38 pm 0
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August 3, 2009 • 4:27 pm 1
Well finally! It’s taken a lot of tweaking,fine tuning and many , many cups of tea , most of which went cold, but the online store is finally looking cohesive! I really wanted elements of my work to be accessible and therefore a two quid card fills me with joy not dread.I can totally max out on the creative element without the shadowy art critics wailing and winging shuffling behind me with knuckles on the floor and noses in the air! Hurrah I say! I have freed myself at last! The beauty of working digitally of course is that it allows me to work at a phenomenal pace creating a whole series of works which almost seem to take flight as one leads to another! I love the tradition of painting but alas I need to be in such a serene place to be able to pull it off. Layers take days and little faces take hours,oil paint gets on my carpet and the little one bed flat groans at the mess.In between I have to go to work and pay the rent therefore each moment spent releasing the creative energies fills me with wonder.My little cards are now on sale and all need homes: http://joannewebb.bigcartel.com/
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July 29, 2009 • 4:35 pm 0
Well we have officially turned the flat into a production line. Over the weekend my husband and I packed,wrapped stuck folded and inserted 500 greetings cards.
I really enjoyed it and thought scary thoughts for five minutes like how out of control cottage industries can go!
I then invested in a new camera and was kindly allowed to do a photo shoot in a very cool shop called ‘Marigold’ hidden at the back of Marks and Spencer in Chichester.
If you have not been there already this shop is stocked to brim with vintage designs and Cath Kidston products. It was the perfect backdrop for my cards and the new images will be showcased on the online store very soon. It should be up and running properly in about two weeks maybe sooner.It has all taken a lot of tweaking but things are looking good!
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July 23, 2009 • 11:31 am 0
Almost there! The new greeting card collection is being printed as we speak. It has been incredibly time consuming getting the collections together not only in final artwork but also in researching printers,cello bag and envelope companies. Finishing touches are still being added!
The prices for everything varied so much and it all looked out of my budget,however it was not until I was advised to ask for digital printing that the quotes dropped.This meant that I could order different cards all at once instead of just ordering one kind.Because they don’t need to set your images onto a plate you don’t get charged as much.
I also recommend that you work with a local printer as you need to have a good dialogue and look at different paper weights.For now I am starting of small. Five hundred cards have been ordered.If you would like to buy them keep an aye on the online store!
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July 10, 2009 • 3:13 pm 0
Just given the store a make over and an upgrade check it out ;http://joannewebb.bigcartel.com/products
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July 9, 2009 • 7:17 pm 0
Thankfully, I married a man that does not seem to flinch at 1000’s of flyers laid out in strips over every available flat surface in our flat. Thank god Rymans sell vintage ink stamps with tweezers and teeny-weeny rubber letters! A recent printing disaster turned into a stupid but inspiring venture when the contrast on my iMac seemingly suggested that the online proof that I was sent ‘looked fine’!I therefore clicked ‘approved’ and received 5000 crap leaflets with a visibly missing title.This is the sorry tale of what happened next.
Can I get away with such a dismal blunder and palm it off as an act of intention? I know,I’ll buy a paper shape cutter and punch out the mistake so there’s a hole in it, that way you won’t be able to see the title at all! Yes, it all makes sense!I can get away with that,I’m an artist!The punch weighs a ton and is impossible to use on thick card. Hands and feet are covered in blisters an hour later when I lose the will to live because it actually hurts using the shape cutter.Therefore I try to use it with my feet and a tea towel instead.Excellent idea.
A tap at the door later, the downstairs neighbor is complaining of strange continuous thudding on floor,Are we having building work done she was unaware of?.My eye starts twitching a bit. I pack up and sulk.Then annoyed I go out and hand out a few flyers and leave them in unsuspecting cafes. Then sulk again.Then complain some more, feel sorry for myself and eat Double Deckers and mint Feast ice creams.
I know,I’ll put the flyers in my printer and hand feed them one by one so the paper doesn’t get jammed.The paper jams anyway.The resulting ink sits on top of the glossy flyer and stares at me, taunting me with its wetness and laughing,’By the time you have completed this inane and pointless venture you’ll have no time left to hand them out’.I redesign the leaflet and research another print company and at the last minute, with my pointer hovering over the order now button, relented in fear of making the same mistake again.Heres a thought,Maybe its possible to photocopy the title on?.Yes, this was possible,but only if I fancied spending another hundred quid.A rubber stamp with the words ‘Crosspollination’on it from Vista-Print for another ten quid should do it.However,I failed to wait the 3 to 5 days until it arrived.
I found myself in Rymans on the same day and spent a further eighteen pounds on another rubber stamp.I go home and nearly wept with joy as this fast drying ink and awesome and forgotten plastic font god stamped painlessly and at great speed 4,200 to go!Oh and all it looks a bit kooki and weird now with letters all crooked and skoo so that has to be good!
Lesson learned,Appearances are deceptive and never trust a soft-proof.
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July 6, 2009 • 2:08 pm 0
Looking for a greeting card company to produce a collection of six.
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July 3, 2009 • 6:44 pm 0
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June 19, 2009 • 1:20 pm 0
Exhibition title
‘Crosspollination’
New works,prints and cards by Joanne Webb
Dates of show
31st August until 12th September 2009
Private View
Sunday 30th August
6-8pm
Venue
Oxmarket Centre of Arts
[John Rank Gallery]
St Andrews Court
Off East Street
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June 16, 2009 • 4:24 pm 0
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Filed under: 1-100 art only, everything , everything, joanne webb
June 14, 2009 • 8:09 pm 0
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Centre Parcs,Longleat
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May 26, 2009 • 7:15 pm 0
Recently I launched an online store selling prints of my paintings. This is largely an experiment as to whether its possible to purchase your own house in West Sussex through internet print sales complete with an art space and gallery good enough for a centre spread in country living! I’ll get back to you on that one! When it was first launched I thought about limited editions but then I thought mmmmm…….. that’s limited! And luckily before I slid on the entrails of cultural greed I came to my senses.It just means that I now have to sell six million prints in order to achieve it! Its great having no 1 of 365 in the whole wide world of anything,but it makes prints ultra expensive and inaccessible. Instead,an open edition of A4 prints have now replaced the larger A3 prints and a smoother, sleeker paper is now being used. The luminosity of the ink will still last 80 years however and because each one has been lovingly scanned from the original panel, each brush mark, detail and bump is crispy clear and quite frankly a bargain! Click here to check out the new prices!
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Armed with a one of those snappy little pencils with an eternal rod of led that you click on demand, I drew these horses in the back of a car.We travelled up to Manchester over the weekend and listened to Lemon Jelly and it all got a bit hypnotic on the way home. Perpetually fascinated by the human relationship with nature, what started of as ‘horse’ became ‘man’. Uninterrupted, undistracted. Jodrell Bank sat like an ugly beautiful thing pointed at the heavens and then the heavens opened up and thundered on the car roof. I went really far away with my pencil and then returned again after completing another drawing of a mermaid come manga character. Motoring sweets at hand, all covered in sweet white dust, it was really quite something. Start new bird panels soon.
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May 16, 2009 • 7:26 am 0
My online store is now open. Currently available are Limited edition giclee prints. There are only 365 available worldwide of each image. I will also be launching further collections later in the year.
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May 9, 2009 • 9:31 am 0
Over the next few months I will be designing a special one off piece of digital art which will be printed on a A6 postcard. There will only be 49 postcards in the collection and only 20 will be signed on the back. The image will never be used for anything else and will not be for sale as a print, therefore you will have something very unique. If you would like one of my postcards all you need to do is click on my online store / click on contact / leave your name / email and your home address and the phrase ‘ I want one of your postcards’. As soon as they have been printed I will send your free artwork through the post. I will also keep your email address for my mailing list and so you will be the first to hear of exhibition private views and any other updates.
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May 1, 2009 • 4:36 pm 0
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April 24, 2009 • 8:08 am 0
April 21, 2009 • 6:25 pm 0
The final panel of ‘Girl on Stilts’ is coming soon! For those of you who are just hanging of your seats in desperation to see the final image put together as one image the wait is nearly over. Panels one and two can currently be seen via the Saatchi link on the right. When all three panels have been shown separately I will post the complete image as one.
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April 18, 2009 • 4:12 pm 2
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April 14, 2009 • 4:34 pm 0
The innocuous sellotape which binds us together is a curious one. I’ve been looking at my clustermap and the little red circles which represent someone on the other-side of the world hitting my blog. Thats nuts! So I have decided to post an image which has a tail. The original image was derived from an Ethiopian girl who was photographed carrying a great big fish on her head for her wedding day gift to her husband.I was intrigued by this image and then added the car and a New York back drop. A couple of sessions on the mac playing with Illustrator led me to many reworks and versions but the original is a humble watercolour and carbon paper drawing. Hands up, it was in my more angry days when I was focused on ……………that feeling that something was lost in all of us when we realized wristwatches and T-shirts were being worn in the amazon rainforest. And that standing on a butt at sunset looking over Billings, Montana with Dave, a Lakota Sioux from Fort Peck unified and mesmerized by biblical shafts of light through storm clouds and hearing ‘ You know Jo ….its gonna rain you know I can feel it……….you know how I know ………..my grandfather, he watched the CNN weather report’.
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