Series 7

Some paintings... As it takes 4000 years to upload pics on here, the rest will be on my Facebook page and Flickr site..

It's gouache on watercolour paper by the way.

Wix Site of the Day Today!

I'm excited that my website has been chosen as Wix.com's Site of the Day!
Here's what they wrote about the design of the site:

"A set of links on the top of Liz Foongs homepage present the viewer with a clean intro to her sites layout. The minimalist color combination and arrangement of design elements separated from one another by whitespace present a breathable, weightless look. The assignment of rollover effects to the menu labels allows visitors to breeze through the sites pages. Rolling over the artists name brings one immediately back to the home page, an element that contributes to the high usability level of this free website.
Foongs work is accessed through her Portfolio page, which has a drop-down menu appear when rolled over. From here, one can view a gallery of her work divided by genre. Rolling over artwork causes a title and description of the piece to drop down. The font selection creates a personalized look to the sites textual content, and ties in nicely with the hand-made artwork. Links to the artists social networks are connected to icons designed like postage stamps. Everything is custom-made and no detail is overlooked in this professional and uniquely crafted free website."

Thanks to everyone who sent me messages and 'Likes' :)

Wix Site
Liz Foong Website

Website to be featured as Wix.com's website of the day

Just thought I should mention as I thought it's pretty good considering it was my first attempt at such a thing! There are loads of websites that are designed much more professionally than mine, but I'm pretty proud of it anyway!

It'll be on the Wix.com site some time in the next week or so and will be featured in their archives..

Wix website

Website ready

I've been busy 'designing' my website. I use inverted commas for 'designing' as I am not a pro, I'm just having a go..
Nonetheless, go take a look. It's basically so I can have somewhere to show off my work easily in one place. Plus, it was free - hence the domain name being a bit long.
Hope you like it:

Liz Foong Website

Level 5 End of Year Show

After weeks of blood, sweat and tears, the show was put up, seen, then taken down again in the first week of May 2010.
Time to move on and make some more work!

Glass puddles

First attempt at casting the glass puddles using float glass. Have cut some fusing glass and given a bit more surface area around the mould for it to 'splurge' out a bit more when the glass goes molten. Will compare these two to decide which works best for the form. Using the grogged clay as a mould gives the form texture, which brings out the ripples. Will get some bubbles powder and some eggshells to experiment with bringing bubbles out in the glass.

A bit of spit and polish..

Well, it's getting there at any rate. I quite like the imperfections so am going to leave them but it needs the patination and wax finish sorted. Looking at notions of the vessel in contemporary ceramics and craft based disciplines eg metalwork, stone and woodcarving. Looking at the vessel in organic forms and the female body, and involving these ideas in my work. After attending the Ceramic Art London 2010 show at the RCA today, I have realised I do not want my work to have that overly polished and perfect look to it. I want it to retain an essence of 'rawness' (of material and assemblage), and for it to reveal the structures that build it. Layers, holes, dips and curves all compliment the form and give insight to the workings behind them.