Studio Snippets
A revealing insight into the state of my studio. From mess to progress with projects and paintings, the accumulated artifacts and other random snippets.
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Work in progress. London. Jacqueline Hammond, painter
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Would you like an unhappy meal or just a double cheeseburger?
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Stop the war on … When the largest industry in the world is no longer War, I will accept Darwin’s theory of Evolution. ~Dale S. Mugford For me war has become a flat, black depression without highlights, a revulsion of the mind and an exhaustion of the spirit. ~Ernie Pyle Ours is a world of…
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I dream of giving birth to a child who will ask, ‘Mother, what was war?’
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All artists, namely painters should read this and consider what the potential ban on cadmium pigments means and contact the ECHA. I will be hastily writing to them as other yellows do not cut the mustard like cadmium yellow. The ban will be considered next month so act now to save cadmium paints. I’m going…
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The Signification of the Poppy’ series began with a painting created for a web based competition in 2007 – ‘Seeking Picasso’ in which I was a finalist. In week 3 the theme was ‘A Troubled World’ and the painting I produced was inspired by the situation in Afghanistan at the time and the metaphor of…