Tag Archives: Collecting

Artists who collect

Posted on 18 September 2014 by beckybendylegs

I love collections and people that collect. I like to talk about either my own collections or other people’s. I collect funny quotes and I collect sketches of people. I have collected images of other people’s mantlepieces and bedside tables. … Continue reading →

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Life’s little pleasures

Posted on 13 March 2014 by beckybendylegs

A long time ago I had a discussion with my husband about ‘life’s little pleasures’ and we managed to come up with a fair few (some I care to admit to here such as clean sheets, that first sip of … Continue reading →

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Creative people like to do things those non-creative people don’t do

Posted on 8 March 2014 by beckybendylegs

Today I read this. It caught my attention among the hundreds of daily facebook posts I see because of course I regard myself as a creative person. I needed to know: do I do any of the 18 things listed … Continue reading →

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‘I think it’s wonderful how you see the art in everything’

Posted on 27 February 2014 by beckybendylegs

This is the lovely complement I was paid today. It is true. I seem to be being constantly bombarded with potential ideas. It is really quite exhausting though. I have to take my sketch pad and digital camera with me … Continue reading →

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A black fine-liner pen

Posted on 2 February 2014 by beckybendylegs

At the moment I’m reading a book of short essays called Evocative Objects, edited by Sherry Tuckle. In this book a number of academics from various fields including philosophy, neuroscience, art and physics have written about their favourite object. These … Continue reading →

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Christmas Eve traditions – what’s yours?

Posted on 26 December 2013 by beckybendylegs

Recently we made a family visit to Powis Castle near Welshpool in Wales and I was inspired by an invitation to visitors to write down their Christmas traditions on a cardboard label and tie to a Christmas tree to ask … Continue reading →

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My friends’ things

Posted on 13 December 2013 by beckybendylegs

Thinking about our attachment to things this week, I decided to ask random friends to tell me what things they collect beyond the level of need. I was quite surprised with some of the results (toilet roll, bikes) and not … Continue reading →

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We love our things and our things love us back

Posted on 10 December 2013 by beckybendylegs

This isn’t going to be a post related to art as such, but it is related to something I became interested in during my last college art project (the absence as presence project) and something that influenced the art I … Continue reading →

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The Guardian are such copycats!

Posted on 25 September 2013 by beckybendylegs

I’m not sure whether I should be flattered (unlikely) or whether it is a complete coincidence (likely) but the Guardian appear to have viciously copied my idea (which actually I borrowed (read as ‘stole’) from Rachel Hurdley‘s study of mantlepieces). … Continue reading →

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Absence as presence on the bedside table?

Posted on 26 June 2013 by beckybendylegs

Last year I collected together photographs and descriptions of the mantlepieces belonging to family and friends. This came after talking at college about collecting and being inspired by Rachel Hurdley‘s article about mantlepieces as a reflection of the self and … Continue reading →

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