And a few oil sketches/paintings of Southern Ireland

Landscapes are something I don't often do, but a trip to Crookhaven last year made me want to reproduce some of the beauty of that place.

Colours of Peru

These are a few sketches from my trip to Peru - primarily I went to walk the Inka Trail with my daugther, but we also went to Lake Titikaka. Above all else I was impressed by the wonderful colours!

More pictures from Pinewood Studios

The residency at Pinewood gave me the opportunity to create new work based on an entirely different theme.

I started with the photos I took and produced a book of those - some of them are shown above. I had been promised a display wall in Theatre Seven to show my work and the photographs also form part of this display.

Much of my work involves light - and the medium of film intrigued me - I took a 'can' of film and played around with it, using it for its aesthetic qualities not for movie projection. Photos of the results are posted here. The film reflects as well as projects leading to interesting composite images.

The relationship with Pinewood is ongoing with ideas for projection on to the outside of the Bond stage and a larger display of film 'canvasses' with special lighting.

More information is shown on the Art Works for Business site http://www.artworksforbusiness.co.uk/latest-news/pinewood/

Pinewood Residency

Earlier this year I visited Pinewood Studios in Iver Heath, Bucks to observe and record my impressions of the Studios.

Whilst there I took hundreds of photos and made lots of drawings. Some of these I used to make digital images, but my favourite images are some photographs I took in the back lot around the huge blue screen. This is massive and stands behind the outdoor water tank where anything from Bond to Wolfman is likely to be filmed. When it is not used the tank more closely ressembles a car park with a waist high barrier around it - and, of course, the blue screen. When the ground is wet reflections of this screen give the whole area a blue cast and it makes for some very interesting images.

Latest Images

The idea of this blog is to complement my website http://www.lyndacornwell.co.uk/. I intend to post new images to keep my site current.

So far I've not been doing a particularly good job since it is over 6 months since I created this blog and only now am I adding to it. Keeping current is such hard work!

Anyway here are my thoughts...

Since finishing my Masters I've been focusing on making drawings, mostly abstract, using reflective and translucent materials. This is something I started a while ago but broke off to pursue another path. I am still interested in light - using light in my work, photographing unusual aspects of light. Most of my work is materials led at the moment - playing with graphite, aluminium powder, and mixing images. But at times it starts with a strong image that I represent in more traditional means. I often use digital images as a start point and sometimes as the end point too.