Just a selection of my work that is here. I do have all sorts as I’m a bit of a Jack Butterfly; always trying new ways of saying what I want to say. Theres no rule is there, that says an artist has to stay in one discipline? Or even one art form? I think some people won’t take you…
Author: Alex Jakob-Whitworth
The Big Draw
A Jersey cow drawn in the technique taught to me several years ago, by the inspiring Lesley Humphries. This is another incomplete piece, drawn in April, more of a demonstration as I was passing on this method to adults in a workshop at the Highhead Gallery I will be doing another there as part of C-Art, date to follow very…
Pendants
A loooong trip this weekend from Cumbria to Newmarket, Suffolk to attend an event for the benefits of the youngstock, cousins and equally obsessed youngstock friend…the UHH Hullabaloo. In ordinary mortal Parlance (whispers) a model horse convention… but it’s good they have a hobby! So I took a break from preparing for C-Art, Cumbria’s Open Studio event, to make a…
It Looks Quite Different
“Noticed” Once I photograph a painting or drawing, it actually looks quite different to my eye in a small digital image to what I am seeing when I’m working on it. This is like the little tricks of holding your painting upside down, or offering it to the mirror (love that phrase “offering up the shelf to the wall”, as…
The Lemon Tree
After returning from a magical Olympic Trip in London (650 miles driven all told) its back to Earth and preparing for C-Art, Cumbria’s Open Studio event this year. I am open Weds to Sun inclusive during both weeks 12 noon until 5pm each day. Not Thursday ’til Sunday as it says in the brochure! There’ll be flapjacks and fresh coffee…
CSI @ She Just Popped
She Just Popped CSI in action again. “She was such a bubbly character,” beside the waterfall. She “just popped” according to witnesses, and CSI are called in to analyse and examine the residue clues. I posted this is we make the long journey from our tiny village in Cumbria to the Olympics in London! I should have brought the But…
Look what the cat brought in…
A happy ending to the juvenile thrush that Jeremy (the cat) brought in. The next day she was sitting up and raring to go (unlike the previous cat-incumbent, who has flown onto the other side during the night). We took her into the field and found a hidden bed of grass to let her into. Then on Friday, the puppy…
Life Drawing for its own sake
Yesterday I attended a Life Drawing class in Papcastle, and the unusual thing was that I was there as a “drawer” only, rather than a tutor. I have been teaching Life Drawing since 2004 and thoroughly enjoy it but the opportunity to draw and specifically not teach was one of the reasons I decided to play with my Inktense pencils…
CSI @ Alnwick Garden
A friend’s daughter’s birthday was spent at the inspirational Alnwick Garden; my first visit there as well. Beautiful and restful yet exciting and mesmerising and contemplative and so well thought out with vista after vista opening up round each bend or turn you make. I took some of my little people, whom are currently called But Perfectly Formed (thanks Spot!)…
A Major Scale
I have been collecting these tiny folk for about two or three years now ever since I came across the artist Slinkachu and his Little People. Have since found out that other artists make “Microworlds” and have wandered off on a path of my own…