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Interview!
Diane Gerrard
  • Sep 1, 2018
  • 5 min

Interview!

Fiona Masterton, who also has a studio at  Hawks Road interviewed me about my work and  posted edited sections and images on instagram and twitter. Well, here is the full text with the images. Fiona: On your website, you explain how you are interested in ‘how an image can be fixed at a point in time, but real life is subject to decay and ruin over time? Can you tell us a bit more about this and why this is something that interests you. Diane: This falls out of my interest in
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It’s been a long time….
Diane Gerrard
  • Aug 30, 2013
  • 1 min

It’s been a long time….

Hmm, it has been a long time since I posted. Well, my excuse is that just as my broken ankle and damaged tendon was healing, and my walking improving, I broke my wrist and vertebrae in another accident,  at the gym, and was out of action again for  a few months.  Certainly  I was not motivated to post yet more sketches of limbs in plaster casts; after all this site  was meant, in part, to be about my progress as an artist! Despite that some good things have happened over the
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Watercolour winter sketch
Diane Gerrard
  • Jan 20, 2013
  • 1 min

Watercolour winter sketch

As I did not go on the sketch crawl I tried out a watercolour sketch  of  a snowy, neighbour’s garden, as seen from my kitchen window. I am trying out using water colours straight, without  any pencil or pen drawing first. Perhaps it is a bit “chocolate- boxy”,  but  there it is. #art #contemporary #sketchers #illustration #diane #images #visualart
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New studio
Diane Gerrard
  • Jan 20, 2013
  • 1 min

New studio

I finally made it to my new studio  last week  and set up for the first time.  It is small but perfectly formed for my needs. The light is very good and I have it all to myself – I shared my last studio. This  picture of  the empty room shows it  the way I will never see it again, until I have to leave it that is. It is very cold in the building as the weather now is very cold and it has snowed this week. I had  intended  to join  a Sketch Crawl at the Tate Modern this Saturd
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Boots and Shoes
Diane Gerrard
  • Dec 24, 2012
  • 1 min

Boots and Shoes

I have had a particular relationship with this footware  over the last 3 months. The walking shoe is the only shoe that I  can get my still swollen foot into and I am so…  bored with it. The boots are  the main culprits, I was wearing the pair when I broke my ankle. #art #contemporary #sketchers #illustration #arts #diane #gerrard #images #visualart
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new plaster cast
Diane Gerrard
  • Oct 18, 2012
  • 1 min

new plaster cast

I had my  temporary, slab plaster  cast replaced two weeks ago with this plastic, lightweight one. There was a choice of colours and  this bright green certainly helps to cheer me up. In the fracture clinic waiting room it was a case of “snap”,  as  I  sat next to  a young woman who had the same colour cast. It will be another four weeks  before I can put weight on this foot, so I still am unable to  get to my new studio! In the meantime it will be drawing and sketching with
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Second weekend
Diane Gerrard
  • Oct 5, 2012
  • 1 min

Second weekend

We had much better weather for the  second weekend of our open studios, two dry and fairly sunny days.  Many more visitors passed through the site to look at the work of the 8 artists who have studios in the potting sheds. We were able to be outside all day and get a  barbecue going. Here are some of our furry visitors attracted by the  sausages. Some work by the other artists I made a few quick sketches of people who sat or stood about for a while. Sunday was my last day  wo
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open studios
Diane Gerrard
  • Sep 24, 2012
  • 1 min

open studios

I have a share of a small studio. As a condition of our tenancies for two weekends  a year we have our studios open to the public. This photo is  of the studios last Sunday when it rained heavily almost all day and we did not have many visitors. I meant to do some drawings of the location but it was too wet and instead we all huddled together in one bigger studio and drank wine and ate nibbles. My fingers  will be crossed for a bit better weather next weekend. The studios are
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Sketch crawl Greenwich
Diane Gerrard
  • Sep 23, 2012
  • 1 min

Sketch crawl Greenwich

I joined a sketch crawl in Greenwich, Saturday 15th September. The organisers were the Urbansketchers London, a group who are committed to  sketching on location  and  sharing the results. The weather was sunny  and hot, the day was perfect- really enjoyable. I needed just such an event to get me back sketching in an urban environment. I have drawn and sketched in secluded park land  locations but the last time I did this  in  a more urban  and public place was  as art studen
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Diane Gerrard
  • Sep 23, 2012
  • 1 min

Blog Purpose

This blog is about my  progress  as a visual artist,  about  what interests and inspires me in other artists and art bloggers  work, – about life the universe and whatever. The day job having given me up I now have the freedom  to make art full time. #art #contemporary #illustration #visualart
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My lost paintings.
Diane Gerrard
  • Sep 10, 2012
  • 1 min

My lost paintings.

These images are of two paintings I left on the train this year (forgot I had  them with me !) and I never found them. #arts #contemporary #illustration #images
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