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ART MEDIUM:
Painting:Oil, Acrylic, Watercolor, Gold Leaf, Encaustic, Fresco
Drawing: Conte, Graphite, Charcoal, Pastel
Sculpure: Clay for Casting in Stone or Bronze, Wire, Found Objects
ARTIST'S STATEMENT:
The ideas within my work are directly connected with the materials and the placement of the piece I am working with. I become one with the materials and their characteristics. The context helps me work out a lot of early decisions such as scale, proportion, color, value and the movement within the work.
There could be relatively fast improvisations using watercolor and gold leaf, or very large scale pieces that are far more planned and organized.
Live models are a regular part of the more time consuming work and they play a major role as actors in the creative process. The materials for these works are oil/acrylic/conte, or in three dimensions: clay for casting.
I experience the process of making art as a layering of different frames of mind. My way of seeing alters as the work progresses, as more ideas and reflections inform the work. This layering of concepts has a tendency to deepen the meanings contained within the work. It also encourages flexibility in the process of making and it becomes very enjoyable to do.
CAREER BACKGROUND:
Education:
Art and Design Foundation Course, at Loughborough University, in England. One Year full time. She ended the course at the top of 120 student's work.
Fine Art Honors Degree in Painting and Sculpture at John Moores University, Liverpool. Hazel studied an extra year there and studied with a professor at the School of Architecture. This was four years full time in total. She was awarded full time scholarships for the whole of her education.
Post Graduate, at London Universities, she studied further courses in Sculpture, Experimental and Classical Music and Business while continuing to do studio work.
Was given in-depth tuition in teaching and public speaking with the Education Department at Christian Aid, a major world wide charity supporting people in poverty. She worked as Art director/advisor there. She headed a team that made her designs for over 120 large exhibitions and many more items that included twenty eight poster sets that were reproduced in batches of 30 thousand.
Short List of Work Responsibilities:
Founder and executive director of Delaunay Contemporary Design Group. Working with top designers and manufacturers in the UK making special runs of furniture and fabrics. Hazel also worked as the Interior Designer/Architect for the company.
Outreach director for the River, Visual and Performing Arts, Houston.
President of Houston Women's Caucus for Art for three years.
Instructor in sculpture at Blaffergallery the Museum of the University of Houston.
She is currently Adjunct Professor at Cy Fair College, Houston where she has lectured during the last three years in Drawing, Painting, Sculpture, Design and Art History
EXHIBITIONS:
Current Exhibitions:
Encaustic Exhibition, Bosque Gallery Cy Fair. Till March 29th.
Past Exhibitions:
Hazel has exhibited retrospective/solo shows in central London at St Mary le Bow, Cheapside. Her work has been in every city in the UK in Main Halls and Galleries as well as all Cathedrals. Her last solo shows in London, were at Lambeth Palace and St Paul's Cathedral.
She has appeared on National TV and Radio many times.
Since moving to the US in 1995, she has exhibited extensively in Houston, and has also shown her work in galleries in Chicago, Arizona, Florida, Kemah and Galveston.
Hazel has had commissions from Designers and Architects, large organizations and individual people from all over the globe. Her work is in large Commercial Institutions. and Universities, the Houses of Parliament, Churches, Cathedrals and Large Worldwide Charities.
Hazel is an expert curator and has hung numerous exhibitions at colleges and universities, galleries, commercial buildings and major events.
AWARDS:
Duke of Edinburgh's Award in Art and Mu
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The Enterprize Allowance Scheme, in total, three years stipend to found and direct a Contemporary Design Group, and to develop her fine art business.
Cy Fair College Adjunct Faculty Excellence Award Winner, 2006.
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