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What could this book hold?
Like a lot of mixed media artists, I make and buy far more journals and sketchbooks than I fill. There are shelves of them in my studio. Some are bursting open and overfilled whilst others have been sitting there for years, still empty, because somewhere along the way I decided they deserved something extraordinary. That is the trouble with a beautiful empty book. It seems to ask for a beautiful, important idea before you are allowed to begin, and so it stays safely on the sh
Jane Chipp
Sep 214 min read
The art of just looking
I'm very lucky that the city where I live has an excellent art gallery, The Box, which recently won Art Fund Museum of the Year. I spent a few hours there this week with a friend, taking a slow wander around the current exhibition, Gillian Ayres: A Life in Colour. I try to see as many exhibitions as I can, whether or not I think I'll find the art attractive. I go with an open mind, looking for points of connection with the artist and for something I can learn. But whilst that
Jane Chipp
Sep 122 min read
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What could this book hold?
Like a lot of mixed media artists, I make and buy far more journals and sketchbooks than I fill. There are shelves of them in my studio. Some are bursting open and overfilled whilst others have been sitting there for years, still empty, because somewhere along the way I decided they deserved something extraordinary. That is the trouble with a beautiful empty book. It seems to ask for a beautiful, important idea before you are allowed to begin, and so it stays safely on the sh
Jane Chipp
Sep 214 min read
The art of just looking
I'm very lucky that the city where I live has an excellent art gallery, The Box, which recently won Art Fund Museum of the Year. I spent a few hours there this week with a friend, taking a slow wander around the current exhibition, Gillian Ayres: A Life in Colour. I try to see as many exhibitions as I can, whether or not I think I'll find the art attractive. I go with an open mind, looking for points of connection with the artist and for something I can learn. But whilst that
Jane Chipp
Sep 122 min read
Revisiting old paths
Revisiting old ways of working for new inspiration There’s something both relaxing and inspiring about returning to a way of working you haven’t touched in a while. Recently, I found myself revisiting an older format: concertina books, built from altered photographs. I've created concertina books for many years. I love the way they can build rhythm and find them a great vehicle for telling a story. But what surprised me this time wasn’t the familiarity, it was the shift in
Jane Chipp
May 22 min read
Sketching your daily life
Embrace the joy of an illustrated journal I’d like to invite you to experience the joy of keeping an illustrated journal, something I’ve been doing for nearly 10 years. I'll share some examples from my journals to show how I illustrate my life. My daily journals are very different to much of the art I share online. You'll see that there's a huge variety; some are extremely simplistic, whilst others (mainly when I'm on vacation) are detailed compositions. Many are not works
Jane Chipp
Dec 23, 20244 min read
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