Witnessing these old dark, heavy wings falling from my body
Finding a way in the foggy programming of yesterdays schedule
Getting ready to leave, to take flight with new golden wings 
A gift from the pheonix in exchange for the shroud of solace
To fly high above the sunken clouds
Feeling lightness emerging softly
Letting go of trying to 'be' anything
Relaxing into the reality of just 'being'
Releasing the need to create
Anything other than space
For my heart to breathe
In truth, my truth
As it was always intended

New Website & New Work

Over the last 2 years I have been doing an MA in Illustration, crossing pathways with Contemporary Performance. Illustration and performance are both important parts of my practice as an artist and I have been exploring how I can blur the edges between these disciplines.

I have been looking deeply inward into what my work means to me and how I produce my art for public audiences. This has given me a greater understanding of who I am and what my work is about.

So I am taking this opportunity to share my work more publicly again for the first time and am pleased to be launching my new website soon. In the mean time here are a few images from current projects.

Logo Update

I thought it was about time for an image update.

I have been using this Hazel logo for over 10 years so it strongly represents my brand, however, like with everything, it is always good to have a refresh and a make-over.

Someone suggested putting it in a circle, and after some playing around I finally chose this one below.

Feeling happy with the new spruced look.

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