Practitioner Focus: Gwen Amey

I am a secondary art teacher in Dorset. I trained mainly as a printmaker and also dabbled with performance art.
I enjoy investigating links and connections with people and their objects or subjects. My latest pieces were responding to a lovely member of staff who brought in eggs from her chickens for everyone in school, when we had Lockdown.  presented her with two A2 drawings to say thank you.

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The chickens, I visited their runs and did a morning of sketching and photographing.
My garden is another huge source of inspiration for colour.
As a youngster I remember playing with wire and dipping it into fantasy film. Going around to my Gran’s house to watch her paint using watercolour was another lovely past time in my youth.
Presently posca pens are my new found go to responding loosely to flower shapes. Otherwise it would be watercolour and collage.
Colourful Christmas presents to give to close friends next.
I am also thinking of making some collaged papers to become birds.

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