The Monochronium - Part 1. Documentary

News Update March 2012

Hello world ... just a little update for you. All is going well in Hazeland...


INSPIRE 52

I have mainly been updating my blogs each week on my Inspire 52 site so check those out - just click on the Inspire 52 logo, I'm now on Week 11. This week gives insight into my art practice at Lighthouse Poole as Visual Artist in Residence, and features a new piece inspired by the Ballet Boyz latest production.

COLLABORATIONS IN 2012

I have been hard at work lauching all of my projects for this year wirh some exciting new collaborations in the making so I look forward to revealing them in due course.

Featured Collaborations for 2012

• A new fairytale with performance and art work in collaboration with Michele O'Brien award winning Storyteller and Theatre Practitioner
• An illustrative and written collaboration with Hayley Potter MA RCA award winning Illustrator and Writer
• A poetic, illustrative and silk woven collaboration with Debby Kirby award winning Silk Weaver

IN THE NEWS

Last week I was featured on the front cover of the Echo Magazine - really delighted about this, my first front cover, may it be the first of many!



Thank you to Anna Morgan for the portrait photography.

Hazel Evans Artist | Illustrator | Writer | Live Art Performer

Planting Seeds and Preparing for Spring

I'm really pleased with the developments of this week. I have been sewing creative seeds and nourishing them in the hope that my garden will flourish this year. Gardening is hard work, muddy and cold in the winter months, but I do hope the sun will keep shining for me so that I can grow some beautiful art plants ... It is today, so I am going to put his computer down now and take a nice Sunday stroll down the beach.

You can catch up on some of my creative seed sewing here on my Inspire 52, one of my crops for 2012 that has already started growing.

Click here to take you to the latest addition Week 7. The Art Of Waiting

Also here on my website www.hazelevans.co.uk/HazelEvansInspire52.html

Right From The Evans' Mouth

I sometimes get asked “How long have you been doing art?”, Well, I remember the first time I completed a whole colouring in of a butterfly without going over the lines and being congratulated at play school, aged three, for being the only one able to use scissors unassisted!… I guess art has been a part of my life right from the start.

Once upon a time, when living in France, I sat blankly blanked out in front of a blank canvas poised ready to make the first brush stroke, but I couldn't do it. There was nothing left inside me, I realised that I had sold my soul to a lifestyle that didn't suit me. Art feeds my soul, it is my air, my energy and simply part of who I am.

The journey so far has led me to living in different countries and right now it has led me back to England. Back to my roots and indeed back to some of my very first inspirations, playing and exploring fantasy, words, illustration, performance and music. Over the last the last ten years I have found a lot of colour in monochrome and my current practice is embracing a monochromatic world, bringing to life my love of characterisation, and exploring theatricality in visual art.

Words, musical scores and ink on paper fusing the past and present, inspire my illustrative and written work. I enjoy blending antiquity with contemporary, reality and fantasy, black and white. I respond to music in real time documenting the feelings and sounds by the visual landscaping of my illustrations, poems and live art.

There is no denying that my art transports me into a fantasy world, my very first idol was Mary Poppins and I think this is something I have carried with me in my journeys so far. My work has often been described as having 'Tim Burton Style', and for that I am flattered because it means people are engaging with the passion in my work.

Hazel Evans - A Brief Encounter

Hazel Evans became the inaugural Visual Artist at Lighthouse, the leading Arts Centre in the South West of England, situated in Poole Dorset, in 2010, where she has been developing her practice through observation and influence of the performing arts.

Hazel Evans is the creator of The Monochronium and The Bookshelf. Hazel's art practice explores words, music, fantasy and the performing arts through illustration, visual art and characterisation.

Said to have a 'Warhol Factory' feel about it, The Monochronium launched as a developmental exhibition showcasing the production of art in a live environment with a monochrome colour palette. Hazel's Monochronium 2011 explored words, music and illustration, in a black and white world and featured a 36hour Artathon with over 40 music and artistic collaborations.

Hazel's illustrative work has been likened to the style of Tim Burton with her dynamic black and white works that energetically communicate her fantastical style of art. She has been working closely with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra (BSO) and has developed a particular affinity for music and dance as a source of inspiration for her art.

After graduating with a degree in Contemporary Arts in 1997, Hazel spent most of her 20s in France. Since coming back to England, Hazel has been re-establishing herself on the British arts scene in the South West of England through her work as a visual artist, artist collaborator and art events coordinator.

The Inspirations So Far

Inspire 52 is going well. It is really giving me a chance to really focus on my expression for the week and is feeding my creative soul.

The latest publications include:

Inspire 52 - Week 5. A Toast to Nourishment. This week is in response to a collaborative and artistic rendez-vous in Somerset.

Inspire 52 - Week 4. Finding The Dragon. This week I try to find a Dragon and get Burnt!

Face it Pierrot! is Week 3 of Inspire 52 ... this week was quite a surprise for me! It explores characterisation and identity. This is also a very personal piece for me and illustrates a particular time in my life and journey so far.

Read all the blog publications on the Inspire 52 site - Click here to go to Inspire 52

Dorset Magazine February Feature

This month I feature in Dorset Magazine. Writer Jeremy Miles and Photographer Hattie Miles came to The Monochronium in October 2011 to interview me and find out more about my recent work and artist collaborations for my 'Andy Warhol Factory' style developmental exhibition. 

New Collaboration with Miss Potter

This week Hayley Potter and I headed into the woods for an inky beginning to our new artistic collaboration.

Hayley has been one of The Bookshelf artists and performed for the live art piece twice now, and that is how we met. She was also an active participating illustrator during The Monochronium last October and Through working together we realised that our art practices have many cross overs and thought it would be great to collaborate.

We both like black ink and being in the woods, and we thought that this was a great place to start, so here are some images of what we did.

                                                                                                                                                        

We don't know where it is all going at the moment (of course we have some ideas) but we are enjoying the organic growth of working on a new project together. I will showcase our collaboration during my next exhibition at Lighthouse Poole this Summer as well as blog updates to show the progress of our work, so keep posted!

http://www.hayleypotter.com/

http://www.hazelevans.co.uk/

Inspire 52 Week 2 - Now Published

Week 2. The Rules Of The Game

This week explores the challenge of the Inspire 52 challenge and a new piece of work is created through the inspiration of Biodanza and dancing in a beautiful old Ball Room.

Click here to take you to the blog

Brilliant!

I just found out today that I will be creating a new work of art for Brilliance, the new emerging light festival in Poole. I am delighted with this as it is a new local project in association with Poole Arts Development and will hopefully grow over the coming years to be a well-established festival.

Here's a little peak at my plans for the piece I will be creating in collaboration with a Florist.

The Flower Forest

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Hazel Evans

Inspire 52 Launched!

Check out my new blog for the specific art project of Inspire 52.

This 12 month project will lead me though a creative journey in 2012 and it all starts here... 'Begin At The Beginning'.

This week I simply observe my present surroundings, where I had found myself at the beginning of the new year. Read more about it and follow my journey on my Inspire 52 blog. Enjoy!

http://hazelevans-inspire52.blogspot.com/