Painting a Journey

Painting a journey

Hi, I’m Evie, Welcome to my blog.

Let me start by saying that I am a beginner, not in an ‘out of my depth’ way, but a way that opens up new doors to sharing new experiences. My site is all about embracing those beginnings to perhaps get a little closer at understanding the end. I began this site as a project in visual anthropology, with my film “Painting a Journey”, a film which endeavours to understand the inspirations behind the art of my father. I will be recording the challenges and triumphs of my experiences along the way, as I begin my very first anthropological film.

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Reflexive Essay

April 21, 2017

My mum worked night shifts, and as she slept my dad took my sister and I to his studio for messy, chaotic adventures whilst he painted. Yoghurt pots and cardboard became castles and robots, the smell of acrylic filled the air with a pungent familiarity and the quiet swelling of brushes in water would break … More Reflexive Essay

Getting Better with Practice

April 20, 2017

When I was young, my friend Franky and I would borrow the family camera and make films. Mostly pretend adverts with songs and jingles written by us, or perhaps CPR on a large teddy when rein acting a scene from ‘Casualty’. After a few years, our theatre troupe grew to five, and we branched out … More Getting Better with Practice

Music and Sound

April 1, 2017

Where words fail, music speaks- Hans Christian Anderson One of the most important aspects of this process was the sound, capturing voices which would permeate into the imaginations of the audience. Image without sound speaks volumes, sounds without image sparks our curiosity, but together in the right order the images and audio flow together to … More Music and Sound

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