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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 ...