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Artist Insights: Jo Rance

Contemporary artist Jo Rance discusses the vibrant, playful and pastel-rich palette she uses to depict the English countryside, and how her background in textiles lends texture to her tapestry-like paintings. Jo also provides insights into her processes, like how painting outside observationally connects her to the landscapes she loves, as well as her jig-saw like approach to composition.   Artist Insights: Jo Rance     Contents 0:00 “Anyone can paint.” 0:11 “The dialogue between land and sky” 0:36 “All I ever intend to do is to provoke joy” 0:57 Introduction 1:19 “I was always the kid who wanted to draw at the table” 1:55 “Who doesn’t want to learn how to weave?” 2:11 “I keep coming back to the word, intuitive” 2:53 “We would spend days in the dye lab, picking out our colour palettes, then hours threading these looms up” 4:06 “I have this immediacy, the more you practice with the paint that you use, the more you can use it in ways that make the paintings look like your paintings” 5:33 “I will go in with accents, pastel pinks, lilacs, I love a bright red” 6:44 “Sometimes I feel like I have rose-tinted glasses on when I am …

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Short Video: The Fly

Ivo van de Grift revisits his mechanical contraptions with this miniature wing-flapping machine. It doesn’t do too well. About two weeks ago I started a new Blender Pet Project; ‘The Fly’. I wanted to create a robot-like fly with lots of moving parts. …

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The Good Girl Rebellion: Building a Business That Works for You with Anna Campbell (podcast episode)

Do you ever feel like you’re great at supporting others but struggle when
it comes to prioritizing yourself and your own business? You’re not alone
and there are things you can do. This week on the Jewellers Academy podcast
Jessica Rose chats with our part time Community Manager Anna Campbell. Anna
is a former psychology lecturer and author of the brand new book Good Girl
Rebellion: Build the Business, Break the Rules, Be Limitless, about how
women who identify with the ‘good girl’ personality can grow businesses
that align with who they really are without burning out or trying to force
themselves into a model that doesn’t fit.

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The Good Girl Rebellion: Building a Business That Works for You with Anna Campbell (podcast episode)

Do you ever feel like you’re great at supporting others but struggle when
it comes to prioritizing yourself and your own business? You’re not alone
and there are things you can do. This week on the Jewellers Academy podcast
Jessica Rose chats with our part time Community Manager Anna Campbell. Anna
is a former psychology lecturer and author of the brand new book Good Girl
Rebellion: Build the Business, Break the Rules, Be Limitless, about how
women who identify with the ‘good girl’ personality can grow businesses
that align with who they really are without burning out or trying to force
themselves into a model that doesn’t fit.

Continue reading