'Danish pig'

Once in a while I get stuck whilst painting landscapes and still
lives... Then while I try to create a composition these strange
paintings happens.

A fresh batch of sand cast houses done with the help of Jake Mee at Farnham UCA

Duck egg blue glass house with enamel inclusion

A recent addition to the sand cast house collection. This blue colour
is a favourite of mine.

Cross vessel, part of the 'useless' range of ceramics, on show at the AAF Amsterdam next week.

Fragrant artichokes in bloom!

Artichokes from my garden, instead of eating the globes I let them
turn to flowers, and how amazing they are. They also have a very heady
sweet smell, like honey. This pot of flowers will be the subject of my
next painting.

No 22

A sand cast glass house with silver inclusions, sold at Origin '09

Domino with silver fork

New work, this is an assembled, mixed media piece consisting entirely
of found objects.

Red earth landscape

This painting in acrylic on wood is currently on show at Will's art
warehouse

Ladybirds

New figurative ceramics sculptures will be on show with my sand cast
glass and paintings at The affordable Art Fair Amsterdam from
29/10-1/11. For more information see www.affordableartfair.nl

New ceramics from the 'pretty useless range' at Origin 6-11nov

Glass cast getting polished for 'Origin'

Three sand cast trophies in the making

New sand cast glass houses being made

New ceramic shapes for 'Origin'

 

Cardboard horse seen at Art in Action

Poetry tiles

I saw these lovely inlaid tiles at Art in action today, for more
information look at www:poetrytiles.co.uk

New paint, new inspiration

New sandcast houses!

Close up of compliments of the season

Compliments of the season!

Sand cast glass house with enamel transfer of a vintage photograph.

New crystal glass house

Brand new sand cast house, with inclusions.

Me!

As seen by Gregor!

Playing with 'brushes' on my iPhone..

Such fun, just drawing and rendering away, my first sketch is below,
I'm going to alter it... And see what happens, if they are interesting
I'll blog them.

Tree see me!

As I was getting into my car yesterday I felt someone looking at me
even though I was alone..... Then I saw it, this tree with an eye
looking straight at me. Strange!

Find the squirrel..

A laser cut pattern by Tord Boontje, find the squirrel somewhere in
there. I like the fact that this fine and fragile design is the work a
male artist.

Welcome!

Gregor's drawing of a cat saying 'Welcome'.. I'd like a doormat like
this please!

Lovely object

I saw this Richard Slee ceramic piece at an exhibition called "Three
by One" the "Crafts study centre" in Farnham. It's curated by Dame
Alison Britton. More info on www.csc.creative.ac.uk
I love the fact that it looks so organic and inflatable, yellow is
never my favourite colour for ceramics but here it adds to the
ambiguity of a piece that appears both natural and manmade.

Green valley

A very summery landscape called 'Green valley' is on display at Artspace until 26 May 2009. It's in acrylic on board with a bespoke oak frame around it.

white orchid and green plums

New still life paintings with orchids are currently being painted. This painting is on show at Artspace (Barn galleries) close to Henley on Thames until 25 May 2009. It's sold.

Este MacLeod
0787 964 8640
este@estemacleod.com

....A house called Anne

One of my new ceramic houses: 'A house called Anne', it's stoneware with glaze, and inspired by Queen Anne style furniture.

Este MacLeod
0787 964 8640
este@estemacleod.com

African inspiration

Whilst on our holiday in South Africa I visited Skukan gallery in
Pretoria. there's always something interesting or new to see. I love
this rusty bull, made from tin cans, they originate from the Free
state province.

Finished glass houses ready for polishing.

Casting cooling down, enamel inclusion visible

New sandcast glass houses

This image shows the process of sandcasting crystal glass. Damp moulding sand is used to create a mould into which the glass is poured. I create 'pictures' in the glass by means of fine coloured glass powder and glass stringers. As the molten glass pours into the mould, it melts and disorts the powder and stringers in the mould. I love the element of surprise that's part of this spontaneous process, the hot glass glows and the images changes in hues of reds until it cools off and becomes hard. It's lifted out of the sand and annealed for 24 hours in a lear until it's cooled.

Fresh new work just unpacked from the kiln.

Happy Easter holidays!

African inspiration

I am very excited! I will be leaving for South-Africa on Saturday for three weeks over Easter. I hope to get loads of African inspiration and paint some landscape and still life paintings while I'm there. Two exhibitions will start in April in the UK, 'Taste' in Will's Art Warehouse, where I will show mainly still life paintings, and some new ceramic houses, as well as a gallery 'focus' at New Ashgate Gallery where a selection of my work in a variety of media will be exhibited. Work on display can be viewed online: http://www.newashgate.org.uk. At the end of April I will be showing at the Glasgow Art Fair 23-26 April, and then at Artspace in Henley on Thames.

White porcelain with stitching detail

 

Gallery

Please make sure you click on the link "Este's Paintings and Ceramics" on the right to see a gallery of my current work as well as older pieces.

New work at Affordable Art Fair

Here's one of the new paintings entitled Red Hills that will be at the Affordable Art Fair, Battersea. Dimensions are 60x80cm excluding bespoke oak frame.

Problems with images

I'm moving my website to this blog and a photo album that will be easier to update. All images have gone across to Apple's gallery, but have been told that it's really fussy about the web browser you use. If you are having problems viewing images please let me know while I sort out an alternative. Thanks.

Ceramic houses

One of the sculptures made during the Guldagergaard residency.

New exhibitions

New still life and landscape paintings will be on show at 'The Affordable Arts Fair' in Battersea from 12th to 15th March 2009 www.affordableartfair.com as well as an exhibition called 'Taste' to be held at Wills Art Warehouse from 4th April to 8 May 2009.

Photos from Denmark

New ceramics done whilst attending the 'Project Network' ceramic residency in Guldagergaard, Denmark. I focussed on the house as form and inspiration.

Glass casting