SPRING-SUMMER '25

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PROGRESS, PLANS, ​

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Following a rusty but happy start back in January '24 when I reacquainted myself with my art, technical skill and balancing it all with my endometriosis journey, I was overjoyed to win 1st place in BeStillMedia's 'Art Saves Lives' award and this rearranged all of my plans for 2025 massively... The encouragement and feedback that came with the award was a revelation in my motivation.....  

As they say of a dancer perfecting they craft 'The line' has become stronger and it carries my feeling and response to the dancers performance as well as their technique to a consistent quality that I am over the moon with. 

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​Spring - Instead of a slow-opening, I’ve spent the last 4 months preparing to open with more products and (with a budget increase) of higher quality. I’ve been enjoying getting my first sculpture cast and digitally reproduced in 3D software by a great team, which has enabled us to start creating 3D printed affordable versions of my sculptures as well! Which I’ll be sharing and starting to sell soon. I’ve also been extending the works from Januarys award winning project and putting the contents of it in to a product that I wasn’t planning on launching until the end of the year in the form of an editorial art book. 

My work’s purpose is to show all the incredible elements dance is made of, by breaking them down in to detailed study and reassembling them as artworks and editorial publications that reflect and respond to the fundamentals clearly - that being largely choreography, musicality, technical skill, expression, performance and narrative... and this includes recognising an individual dancers skill and interpretation of a role.

There’s so much that forms the incredible multi-faceted jewel that is dance and compiling my artistic visual language with written content in book form collates the works in to a whole form so nicely that it feels like a wonderful direction for the works...

I’ve wanted to collate the very niche detailed studies I make, in to books that show the studies working as intended as a collection which discusses the multifaceted jewel that is dance. Every set of works I create will be put in to this format as part of a continuing collection, so it’s been very exciting to suddenly be able to start all of this earlier than intended, which ironically has meant my socials have been dead as a door nail. But I am indeed alive and will be back soon… hope everyone has a lovely Spring-Summer that art brings some joy in to your life - as always x Samantha

I’ve had dance in my life since I was tiny and I feel like it’s an old friend, in my work it’s an endless place to visit & re-visit and every time I think I’ve reached the edge of the map it becomes something deeper.

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I hope everyone has a lovely Spring - thanks to everyone who's been SO supportive & enthusiastic since 2020! x

 

JEWELLERY & LEATHER PIECES - I've also been working on a little range of OOAK leather bags in collaboration with my fiancé Elliot and my talented friend and jeweller Ruth Claydon - We currently stock a few exclusive pieces by Ruth in the JEWELLERY store, and will soon be adding the first leather pieces for sale. In the meantime, there are a few stunning pieces by Ruth available now, I recommend those seeking a unique jewellery piece take a look and check out her own feed at @mothandmagpie

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LINKS & RECOMMENDATIONS​​​​

 

@mothandmagpie Unique ups-cycled jewellery design.

@mick.wilson.artist - One of the best landscape artists I've ever seen.

@andrew.niblett.77 - Raku potter who's empathetic and precious works focus on peace through tangible, remembered history.

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SKETCHING IN CLAY - SCULPTING IN PENCIL - Read more about the work here 

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