Author: ejmack
-
I Must Confess…(The 12″ Extended Cut)
I had never really given much thought to the meaning of ‘tension’ in sculpture, until I produced my latest pieces and it dawned on me that’s exactly what I’d been striving for throughout all my ‘Under Pressure’ explorations. It’s about movement. It’s about energy. It’s about making your audience feel or question whether there’s something…
-
When pressure points the way.
It’s been nagging at me for a while, underscoring my working day if you will, that I really need to make more of an effort to keep a record of how this artistic life is developing, if only so that I have something to look back over during the inevitable spells of stagnation when I…
-
Enduring Peace?
Set against a backdrop of what seems like never-ending conflict, not only between whole nations but also within our own smaller communities, perhaps it shouldn’t come as any surprise that a sculpture representing peace and tranquility now resonates so strongly. I first came up with the idea for ‘Peace’ sometime back in 2020, when I…
-
So here we are at last…
The first of the new pieces are finally glazed, out of the kiln and ready to go to the gallery. And what a relief it is to have them all safely transformed. When I first started dabbling with clay I really had no idea how much patience would be required, never mind resilience – you…
-
Ch..ch..changes.
This past year has been one of change, both in and out of the studio. Before our youngest child had even sat his final A level exam we made the decision it was time to quit our rather snoozy Surrey home after 18 years and head back to our much missed London life, whilst we…
-
Let’s start with a brief introduction:
Some of you may already know that once upon a time I was an author of fiction – domestic noir as it became known – with to date a total of four novels in the bag, and one more now sadly languishing in a drawer. Indeed it was writing that eventually led me to sculpture…