I have been working on six images for The Event, a contemporary arts festival taking place next week. I love history. I can’t help it. So many events from history seem almost unbelievable, the story of the royals is pure soap opera, full of betrayal, beheading, power struggle and the plain strange. The six images [...]
Author Archives: SVarndell
Logic & Leadership (sneak preview)
18/10/2009 – 2:05 pm
For reasons undisclosed, I am working toward producing a set of six digital portraits of past Kings and Queens of England, entitled Logic And Leadership. The above is an image I have been working on of Queen Anne, taken from an original portrait by William Wissing.
Currently it is made entirely in Inkscape, a free vector [...]
10 Fun Facts!
14/09/2009 – 7:55 pm
At The Family Fun Day, I took part in a range of premeditated activies generously contrived by The Family!
I would like to express the following of my own free will!
1. I had fun at the family fun day!
2. As far as I am aware, everyone who attended the Family Fun Day had fun!
3. There was [...]
Blitz Dames vs. Middlesbrough Milk Rollers
23/03/2009 – 6:33 pm
for those of you not yet sure what the hell roller derby is anyway, have a look at my previous post; What the hell is roller Derby and what’s it got to do with Brum anyway. otherwise read on…
Last weekend the Blitz Dames played host to the amusingly named Middlesbrough Milk Rollers at the Dames [...]
What the Hell is Roller Derby & What’s it got to do With Brum Anyway?
23/03/2009 – 4:50 pm
Speak to any Roller Girl, and they will tell you with conviction that roller derby is the fastest growing sport in the UK. True? I’ve no idea, but it is certainly growing at quite a pace. Birmingham is exceptionally fortunate to be the rolling ground of the Birmingham Blitz Derby Dames, [...]
Treasure Seekers VIII
18/03/2009 – 2:40 pm
Treasure Seekers VIII
There is a scene in the martial arts film, ‘Hero’, when, in order to learn how to defeat his enemy, the hero (Jet Li), must watch him write. Only in this way can he deduce the subtleties of his foe’s style and thus devise a strategy to defeat him.
The work of Caitlin Griffiths [...]
Battle of The Sockses
18/03/2009 – 11:37 am
It has been several days since I made the half surprise discovery that I am a genius, by turning my sock inside out (see Yes I am a Genius), and during those days I have plumbed the depths and heights of intellectual isolation, yes, its lonely at the top.Last night though, I met two fellow [...]
A Portrait of Birmingham
15/03/2009 – 8:06 pm
A Portrait of Birmingham is a tall order by anyone’s standards, so my hopes for this event were less on the lines of an insightful look at what makes the modern brummie tick, and more on the lines of music, poetry, pictures and a beer please (yes, I had read the flyer), and I have [...]
Yes, I am a genius.
14/03/2009 – 1:28 pm
Apologies for rambling so early on…I, like many arty types I suspect, grew up with the certainty that I would one day grow up to be a genius. Yes, one day I would use the medium of drawing to propose a theory so wild, so magnificently unbelievable, that it had to be true. Perhaps I [...]
Hello and welcome
14/03/2009 – 12:43 pm
Hello and welcome to my brand new Blog.I will be rambling about events and exhibitions, particularly art events, but also anything else that pops into my head, or that I happen to think is worth comment (mostly) in the town of Birmingham.