Stephen Willats

Willats is an artist that was suggested to me by a tutor, as I am currently doing some documentary work on Liverpool youth gangs. Willats is a pioneer of conceptual art. Since the early 1960s he has created work concerned processes and theories in sociology, cybernetics, semiotics and philosophy. He has produced a number of extended projects working with residents of public housing estates across Europe. These images are from an exhibition he put on the the Victoria Miro gallery where he concentrated on 3 families that resided in a tower block in London. He displays the majority of his works as diagrams...

Matthew Williamson

Williamson is a graphic designer and uses an abundance of media and works with collage. I love his work as he uses photographs and blueprints of machinery, adds paint to the images and turns it into a piece of art. It reminds me of industrial landscapes, in an abstract kind of way. He has a signature colour scheme, which is a mixture of earthy tones, angry darks and a slight touch of bright blues and pinks.

Spring had sprung

I was walking to the train station this morning and decided to go through the park seeing as the sun was shining. The air was crisp and the wild spring flowers were out, what a blissful feeling. It's the first time in a long time that I've taken a deep breath and took it all in. I walked extra slow and enjoyed it (usually I'm getting battered by rain, wind or snow).

As the weather is getting better and the nights are gradually getting lighter, me and my mum have decided to build a little wildlife pond in the garden. We're not going to have fish, it causes too much heartbreak when the heron comes to visit, so we're going to have frogs instead. We've been getting clued up on how to attract all the frogs and newts from an old Charlie Dimmock book I got when I was younger. Apparently the trick is to get a few bottles of water from a really old natural pond and some rotting logs from the woods. I've always been infatuated by ponds, I really can't wait.

So it's March! It's quite the month for my family and I. My Nan and Granddad are Celebrating their Golden wedding anniversary! 50 solid years together and they're still so in love. They are the glue that holds my family together, we're going to celebrate this one big time!

My boyfriend and I are also celebrating our anniversary this month. Our first :) it's not exactly 50 years but it could be one day. I love him very much.

Anyway, I've finished my Contemporary Art and Globalisation essay, which doesn't have to be in til the 19th, so it gives me loads more time for my own art practise. Life is good..