Blog thoughts

Hi Rose,

I best get the ball rolling here and actually right something from my end!

I feel like this whole project is very much a learning curve for both of us. I think the starting point is a really great one, particularly the way you described it as a 'twinge' in both our practices. The challenge is to take that initial twinge and coax it along and help it form a coherent whole - much like painting!

The connection of landscape is definitely there between our practices, though we come at it from different directions. I guess this blog, and the process of this collaboration, is for us to learn more about our connection to landscape and how we deal with it. Like when we've had conversations in the studio, one of us might say one thing, but the other will say 'no, that's not the way I see it...' which is good!

The differences that I can think off so far are to do with:

- how we use photographay
- how we actually feed off / incorporate landscape into out work
-what landscapes we feed off.............

There will be loads more that I've forgotten, but I just thought I'd jot some off the top of my head....add to it!

But then I guess it will also get us to open up about our painting practices and process!!!. I got a bit carried away there, but this project is a two hander between landscape and painting, and as you've said in your text the two are intertwined!

But it's getting to grips with how to use this blog for our needs, what do we want out of it. Use it as a tool, a dumping ground for thoughts and ideas between us. Like a shared sketchbook. It's wierd, as I found it hard to think who I was writing for on it, but I think I can write the best when I just write like I'm talking to you. I guess the blog is somewhere for us to actually lock down a particularly thought, have it logged in the archive for the other person to feed off.

Just like we're slowly bringing the threads together between our practices, I guess we'll start to figure out how to use this blog, maybe it will become more organic as we go along. Maybe the different way we use this blog will reflect our individual practices and working methods! who knows. The challenge to work together on this is a great one...it's not easy for two artists to just come together and form a working relationship between their practices...it takes time. What I'm trying to say is that on the one hand we're learning more about the theme of landscape, but at the same time we're learning more about each others working methods and how we can work together. It's kind of obvious, but it's what's on my mind as a try to get my head around how to use the blog.