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So, the final day of the three day art class I've been attending has been and gone (in case you missed the last two blog posts on this, day one is here, day two is here if you want to catch up!) Cornell himself was inspired by the Surrealists and my box is certainly surreal! My humble piece is inspired by his work entitled Pharmacy Pharmacy by Joseph Cornell Here is my box inspired by the work of Joseph Cornell (apologies that it's a bit of a snap, my love-in photographer is at work!) The tutor encouraged us to reflect on what we learnt during the course and what we would do differently next time and I think these are worthwhile questions to ponder Here's what I learnt 1. Try something new, it might surprise you I have previously studied fine art and have never tried collage or assemblage before so I learnt that I like it! I always think it is worth taking classes to try out something new with a bit of support 2. Just keep going! There were certainl...

Royal Academy of Arts, London As I mentioned yesterday, I am on day two of a three day art course called Inspired by Joseph Cornell . Today we went to see the exhibition of some of his work at the Royal Academy of Arts . The exhibition is entitled Wanderlust which is an interesting choice as he was something of a recluse and didn't travel far from his home in New York during his whole life. However, he was obsessed with the idea of travel and collected photos, stamps, magazines, postcards - all kinds of items. He was also a very intelligent man who read widely so knew a lot about the world. I really enjoyed seeing the work at the exhibition. This was my favourite piece that I saw today. The work is smaller than I had imagined and the strings are so precisely threaded. Tilly Losch by Joseph Cornell In the afternoon we went back to the Centre and continued working on our own boxes inspired by Cornell.  Yesterday I had a mini crisis about wanting my work to be good b...

Tilly Losch by Joseph Cornell For the first time in nearly 20 years (yikes!) I attended a fine art class this week. The three day class is called ' Inspired by Joseph Cornell ' and is being run at the Mary Ward Centre , London. Cornell was an American artist who created assemblage art in boxes. He was untrained (which, given the date of my last art class provided some comfort!) and created very interesting collections of ephemera. Day one consisted of a powerpoint looking at some of his work and then starting to put together our own boxes. We will also be visiting the Royal Academy of Arts exhibition , which prompted the course in the first place, to see some of his work. Some of my fellow students came very well prepared, having already visited the exhibition. One student brought along these ceramic dolls to use in her assemblage. Is it me or do these kind of dolls always look creepy?! Ceramic dolls Follow me on instagram , twitter , facebook and pinterest ...