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Archive for March, 2008

The Platform Tavern

Posted: Thursday, March 27th, 2008 @ 6:42 am in General, News | 3 Comments »

The Platform Tavern

Originally uploaded by fionalongart.

I had rather an exciting night last night. I performed at the Platform Tavern which is my favourite Blues venue on the south coast and my favourite pub in Southampton! I was accompanied by the wonderful Blues performer Pete Harris. […]

Emotional Reactions

Posted: Saturday, March 22nd, 2008 @ 3:17 am in Art, General | 3 Comments »

Indonesian Vista in its new frame

Originally uploaded by fionalongart.

Inspired by my friend Kim Rodeffer Funk’s recent blog post, I thought that I would tell this story about some emotional reactions I had to one of my paintings:
This is the painting I did for my great […]

Creating Space

Posted: Thursday, March 20th, 2008 @ 11:49 pm in Art, General | 3 Comments »

A huge thank you to the wonderful abstract artist Kim Rodeffer Funk,who I’ve recently become friends with. She has written a wonderful post about me today on her brilliant blog Creating Space. I thoroughly recommend this highly interactive blog. It is so thought provoking and inspiring. I love reading it every day.
I’d also like to […]

State of the Art competition

Posted: Thursday, March 20th, 2008 @ 5:58 am in Art, General, News | 8 Comments »

Royal College of Art Exhibition

Originally uploaded by fionalongart.

It was great to take part in this exhibition at the Royal College of Art and I was pleased to make a contribution to the Princes Trust. I was very pleased to be shortlisted as one of the […]

Royal College of Art Exhibition

Posted: Saturday, March 15th, 2008 @ 4:53 pm in Art, General, News | 6 Comments »

The Wall - painting

Originally uploaded by fionalongart.

I’m excited to announce that I am one of the finalists in the State Of The Art competition. It is in aid of the Prince’s Trust and the exhibition is taking place this Monday, 17th March between 12pm and […]

Spam Apologies

Posted: Tuesday, March 11th, 2008 @ 4:26 am in General | 2 Comments »

Food Fetish

Originally uploaded by fionalongart.

Apologies if any nasty porn links are visible to anyone visiting my site over the next few days. It appears that nasty people, spambots and other dark forces have found a gap in the forcefield and are having a merry old […]

Why art is like childhood

Posted: Sunday, March 9th, 2008 @ 9:32 pm in General | 2 Comments »

Why art is like childhood

Originally uploaded by fionalongart.

I had “not making any money” added as a comment on this. Any other ideas as to why art is like childhood?

Is this a drawing?

Posted: Friday, March 7th, 2008 @ 10:17 pm in General | 2 Comments »

Is this a drawing? Originally uploaded by fionalongart.
During my first week at Wimbledon College of Art we were split into three groups and given a huge array of bizarre materials. We were then asked to make a drawing out of them in order to challenge our […]