It started, as these things often do, with somebody asking me to make something. My friend Pat was entering an allotment display at the Southport Flower Show and needed a box in which to arrange some of the fruit, vegetables and flowers she had grown. She could, of…
Author: Eiain Lennon
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The Space Between the Words
Why Negative Space Matters in Art, Writing, and Life I can pinpoint the exact moment my relationship with negative space began. Oddly enough, it wasn’t in an art gallery, standing in front of a minimalist canvas or a quiet Japanese woodblock print. It was while watching a film,…
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An Argument for Curiosity
There is something I’ve noticed over the years. Most people look at the world once. Artists tend to look twice. I’m not convinced that’s because artists see more than everyone else. I think it’s because they have learned to stay with something a little longer. They resist the…
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The Unseen Hearth: On the Calling, Cost, and Quiet Courage of Being an Artist
There is a quiet misunderstanding that often creeps into conversations about art—a notion born of spreadsheets, clock-in cards, and the modern urge to turn every human impulse into a financial transaction. It is the belief that an artist is defined solely by a tax declaration, a gallery exhibition,…
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On Hearing Quiet
There is an odd assumption that silence is the absence of something. It isn’t. Anyone can hear noise. It takes very little effort. We spend our days surrounded by it: traffic, phones, conversations, notifications, news, opinions and the constant expectation that something louder is always more important. Quiet…
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The Joy of Found Objects
There is a moment, just after your eyes learn what to look for, when the ground stops being ground. It becomes an archive. I am an artist, which is a practical way of saying I spend a great deal of my time looking down. At pavements. At turned…
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Why I Built This Space
A Home for the Creative Chaos If you wander around my new website, Eiain Lennon, you won’t find a series of step-by-step instructions. You won’t find a polished, rigid masterclass or a sequence of strictly curated, flawless portfolios. I didn’t build this website to act as a lecturer,…