There’s something deeply meditative about sculpting a bloom from pigment and texture. “Textured Blossom” is a floral relief painting that doesn’t just depict flowers—it rises into space with each palette knife sweep. Currently off-market while I’m away, but similar pieces will sprout soon. 🖼️🌿
Explore the work on Artfinder: https://www.artfinder.com/product/floral-bas-relief-3d-floral-1b852/

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There’s something deeply meditative about sculpting a bloom from pigment and texture. “Textured Blossom” is a floral relief painting that doesn’t just depict flowers—it rises into space with each palette knife sweep. Currently off-market while I’m away, but similar pieces will sprout soon. 🖼️🌿
Explore the work on Artfinder: https://www.artfinder.com/product/floral-bas-relief-3d-floral-1b852/

#sculpturalpainting #floralart #impastopainting #paletteknife #3dflowers #texturedflowers #originalart #flowerart #artforsale #tactileart

So it turns out that with sugar lift it’s a positive image so you paint on the plate, the solution dries then you add a liquid hard ground, submerge the plate in hot water and the solution lifts off leaving marks that are then etched when it’s put in acid. No idea what it’ll turn out like as I can’t print it until next term! #TactileArt #blind

"Winter Silence"
A tactile encaustic painting that invites you to touch. Yes, encaustic art can be touched.

Size: 40H x 40W x 5D cm

If interested email me to cibulcovas@gmail.com

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good morning! Half an hour of reading then I’ve got to get up and get ready to go to the British Library audio described art workshop, yay!!#TactileArt

I’ve been eagerly awaiting my order of the Sensational BlackBoard from the Braille Superstore in the US and it arrived today! So exciting as you place normal paper on the surface, draw directly onto it with a fairly good pressure and the line pops up! It’s a game changer for me as I found the plastic German film difficult to get a decent result that made sense when you feel it afterwards. I have no idea how it works, it’s some kind of magic to me haha! I’ve got lots of experimenting to do with it now, and hope to build up a tactile sketchbook #TactileArt #creativity #blind

So this made me laugh today… for Christmas I gave several of my family a print of my first blind embossed etching which had a short sentence in Braille under it. I had lots of lovely thanks and nice comments but they all asked me to tell them what the Braille said! Not one of them took a minute to google the Braille alphabet and have a stab at it haha! Unreasonable of me?! #blind #Braille #etching #TactileArt #printmaking

May your Christmas shine with light and love!

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The temperature’s dropped here so it’s time for hot chocolate now! I’ve been to my etching class this morning and I’m having to be incredibly patient. The plate has been in the acid each week I go there and I’m pushing it as far as I dare in order to get a really deep etching that’ll then be embossed when printed 🤞 #printmaking #art #etching #disability #blind #TactileArt

I started my etching course this week and it was fantastic! The tutor and other printmakers were very welcoming and we all just got on with our projects. Everyone seemed curious to see what I would be creating as a blind printmaker.
There was another person who hasn’t done etching for 20 years so we went through the process of preparing the plate together - filing and burnishing the edges, degreasing the plate, heating it and adding the ground, smoking it and then the tricky bit, drawing an image!
My sighted PA was brilliant at guiding me and asking the technician for help when I needed it. I’m starting with a very simple drawing and will get to put it in the acid next time to bite the lines into the zinc. Then we’ll have a go at printing it through the press and see if the line is crisp and deep enough to feel, so exciting! #printmaking #art #etching #disability #blind #TactileArt

My RNIB shop delivery will have to wait as I’m off to an orthotic appointment but I’m excited to get back later and have a play with the German film, to make simple tactile drawings! My etching course starts in October so it’s time to experiment in preparation 🤩 #blind #TactileArt #drawing

Henna, mehendi in Hindi (the art of inking designs on skin with the pigmented extract of leaves from the henna plant) is an interesting form of tactile art, I feel. After a long time, I got henna designs done on one of my hands yesterday, picture with #AltText below, and that set me thinking.

You feel the art as its being made, since your hand is the canvas. Slightly pointy strokes with a hint of coolness for thin lines, bolder, more fluid-feeling strokes for thicker lines. It's a sequential picture rather than a simultaneous one, although you can feel the entire pattern if you explore after it's properly dried. What it does for me is different from what it would do for the average sighted person - some of it is small and thin and intricate enough to be incomprehensible to the fingers, but its textured in interesting ways , and the bolder features positively leep out. "...while the eye seeks the outline of the object, the hand does not. The hand embraces the object in its multifaceted complexity...", Georgina Kleege says, and I was reminded of it very strongly yesterday. And the smell - cool and leafy-sharp and minty to the throat, it takes me right back to my childhood. But after you keep it through the night and wash it off in the morning (since the idea of henna, after all, is the pigmentation on the skin that stays, tactility is only a short-lived byproduct), only the fragrance remains, mellowed but unmistakably still there, for at least a week. The rest is a trick of the light, so to say, and now it's out of my range of perception. Which is great, I'd say, or I'd be having a hell of a time trying to type. #Art #Henna #TactileArt #Blindness

I went to the Make and Connect: Textured Printmaking workshop this morning at The Royal Academy of Arts in central London. This was a new experience for me as all the art events I’ve been to since becoming disabled have been specific to sight loss whereas this one was much broader, aimed at anyone who faces barriers to the arts.
I was very nervous but once we’d arrived and got settled with a cup of tea I started to get involved. The session was led by printmaker Usva Inei who, alongside others from the gallery, was on hand to offer advice and encouragement. This was a very relaxed session and we were presented with a range of tactile materials including beautiful lacy paper, textured wallpaper, thin foam and corrugated card to create images inspired by architecture and urban landscapes but really we just played around and the theme wasn’t strictly followed by everyone. I made a collage and though it was a little tricky deciding what to do as I couldn’t see any of the photos that were placed on the tables for inspiration, I just worked with the textures to make something quite abstract, but with a couple of butterflies and flowers mixed in. I had to get some help to load the rollers with ink then I rolled colour onto my collage. We then put paper on top and I used a clean roller to roll firmly over the paper to create the print. Once I was finished I slowly peeled the paper back from the collage to reveal the image! For me, this workshop was all about the process of making the collage which I enjoyed so much and the result, as it isn’t tactile, was not something I could appreciate so much. I can remember the kind of results this type of printing gives so just kind of made it up in my imagination from what others described to me. My PA helped me to place the shapes I cut or ripped up onto the surface and straightened things out where necessary. I’ve never worked like this before and it was a little frustrating at times but I was totally immersed in the creativity for the whole morning which was something I’ve missed very much. I was so pleased with the two prints I made and had a great chat with the artist also about how I could take my tactile art experiments further in future in a print studio which is exciting! More info on the event here:
https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/event/make-and-connect-texture
#Disability #blind #TactileArt #art #creativity #inclusion

Off to The British Library this morning to learn about Henry VIII’s illuminated manuscripts and then have a go at creating a tactile illuminated letter myself, exciting! #TactileArt #audiodescription #blind #PartiallySighted #creativity

We’ve been away for a week to visit family so I missed the chance to experience this Somerset House photography exhibition in person as it was sadly only on for a couple of days. Hopefully it will now tour the country as it looks like a huge effort has been put in to make the photos accessible to all. I’m going to have a good look around the website now to get a feel for it #blind #PartiallySighted #Deafblind #Braille #TactileArt
https://www.somersethouse.org.uk/whats-on/canon-world-unseen

At the weekend I attended a brilliant event at the British Library in central London for blind and partially sighted people themed around portraits. I was excited to go because unusually there was the opportunity to get creative in response to the audio described works.
The workshop was run by artist Karly Allen who obviously had years of experience because her description of the 2 artworks we were introduced to was comprehensive and very natural.
We talked about a portrait of novelist Hilary Mantel by Nick Lord and a marble bust of King George III by Peter turnereli from the British Libry’s collection and were given a tactile drawing of them both which were printed using a Zychem machine which I desperately want to get my hands on now! I found them really pleasant to feel and although I did need the description to make full sense of the diagrams I felt they were very useful.
After the descriptions we were given a small circular frame and some clay along with some tools and Karly talked us through ideas of how we could get creative. I decided to use the various tools to draw into the clay which I’d filled the frame with and smoothed down. It was hard to get started and I experimented a bit and smoothed it out and started again several times. I kept in mind that the frame would be filled with plaster of paris and the clay discarded to make a tactile relief sculpture so whatever I drew would come out backwards. I cheated a bit and didn’t attempt a portrait as working in this way was new to me and my first attempts were awfully confusing! I decided to do an illustration of a flower instead because as I’m totally blind I couldn’t go back and add to the marks I’d made, I just had to go for it in one go, imagining the drawing as I went. I did ask my PA to tell me where there were some gaps so I could ad a couple of details which was helpful. I wasn’t the only person to take this approach.
We had a break for lunch and then went up to see the 2 artworks in the galleries and discuss them further while our sculptures set.
It was so exciting to feel the end result when we returned and we passed our creations around which got us talking to new people. Before the workshop I’d felt nervous about trying to do something creative again after 10 years of being blind and although it was frustrating at first I was relieved to find that we were encouraged to just get stuck in and have a go in any way we felt comfortable. I’ll definitely be returning to the library for future events of this kind!
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Just met a fellow tutor at my college who teaches art and she was so encouraging! It’s really given me a lift. We talked about printmaking techniques I might like to try that would result in tactile surfaces so I’m looking forward to the next stage which is the fun part, experimenting! #art #blind #TactileArt

Sculpted Poppy - Three-Dimensional Floral: Red Poppy by OLena Art - is a textured painting of a red poppy https://bit.ly/3v6TCPH https://www.artfinder.com/product/sculpted-poppy-three-dimensional-floral-red-poppy/?utm_campaign=shareaholic&utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=socialnetwork The bold colors and dynamic texture make it a captivating addition to any space. Available now for art lovers and collectors. #artwork, #floralart, #originalart, #artforsale, #oilpainting, #texture, #colorful, #3Dartwork, #redpoppy, #impastotechnique, #vibrantart, #tactileart, #dynamictexture, #artlovers, #artcollectors

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Small porcelain offering bowl.
Porcelain, crushed turquoise inlay, resin coating

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Just a little work in progress inspired by the Venus Girdle (Cestum Veneris), which is a ribbon-shaped comb jelly found in the Mediterranean Sea. I haven't figured out yet if I will be adding more to this one or letting it stand the way it is all nice and simple.

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