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Perfume Portrait #8 – Richard Bradley
Richard Bradley 50ml EDT Description The logical alternative to the blandness of modern television, this fragrance allows you to re-live...

Michael Borkowsky
Jan 31, 20161 min read
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Artists’ Paint Colour #4 – Cups Stacked on Top of Each Other
Taking ideas from artists and turning them into paint. Each paint is already primed with implications and preconceptions based on the...

Michael Borkowsky
Nov 8, 20141 min read
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Artists’ Paint Colour #3 – Overheard Conversations
Taking ideas from artists and turning them into paint. Each paint is already primed with implications and preconceptions based on the...

Michael Borkowsky
Nov 2, 20141 min read
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Artists’ Paint Colour #1 – The Hotel
Taking ideas from artists and turning them into paint. Each paint is already primed with implications and preconceptions based on the...

Michael Borkowsky
Oct 18, 20141 min read
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Reflecting on my Latest Paint-Making Workshop
Last Wednesday I held the first of three paint making workshops to be held at The Bessemer II Gallery in Sheffield. As ever, the paint...

Michael Borkowsky
Sep 14, 20141 min read
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Artists Required for Thoughts Towards a Painting that Doesn’t Exist.
I am creating a piece of work that assesses the nature of painting, and speculates whether a painting needs to exist if we are able to...

Michael Borkowsky
Aug 30, 20142 min read
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The Triumphant return of the Paint Making Workshop!
Unceremoniously, I have sprained my ankle, which has dictated a halt in creative proceedings. I have designed a make-shift studio in my...

Michael Borkowsky
Aug 5, 20141 min read
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Back With a Spice Rack
If you have been wondering where I have escaped to for the last month or so (and let’s face it, most of you have) I can joyously claim...

Michael Borkowsky
Nov 3, 20132 min read
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My Paint-Making Workshop Experience
So, I’ve finally gone and done a bit of teaching. I have finally imparted whatever remnants of wisdom I have onto others, which they can...

Michael Borkowsky
Sep 6, 20132 min read
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Seeing the Future
My latest work signifies something of a breakthrough in terms of what a jar of paint can depict: A degree of subjection is instantly...

Michael Borkowsky
Jul 31, 20132 min read
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The Problem With Photography
Yesterday I endured the acquaintance of an extremely heavy, cumbersome and joyless piece of apparatus commonly known as a ‘camera.’ As...

Michael Borkowsky
Jul 25, 20132 min read
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Things Are Finally Starting to Happen!
in January, armed with a multitude of ideas and a copious supply of acrylic paint, I moved to Sheffield. Seven months later, and I can...

Michael Borkowsky
Jul 4, 20132 min read
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The Art of Sharing
There have been a few whisperings reaching me of late suggesting that it might be bloody lovely if I shared a few of my techniques with...

Michael Borkowsky
Jun 21, 20131 min read
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The Identity of Painting
Over the last week or so I have been concerned with the identity of painting. Specifically, I have been thinking about how the practice...

Michael Borkowsky
Jun 6, 20132 min read
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Cup of Tea, Anyone?
What exactly is a cup of tea? It’s a bloody good question, I’m sure you’ll agree, and one that perhaps art is able to explain: Or at...

Michael Borkowsky
May 31, 20132 min read
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On Teaching
Why paint making should be for everyone. Teaching. It’s a concept I have entertained since watching my year 7 art teacher painstakingly...

Michael Borkowsky
May 12, 20132 min read
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A Departure to the Countryside
Leaving food alone for a bit to think about trees instead. Landscape. It’s a subject that – like still-life – can be given a bit of a...

Michael Borkowsky
May 2, 20132 min read
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The Constant Desire For Progression
I love to criticise and bitch. It fills part of my moral conscious probably technically reserved for, I don’t know, being able to...

Michael Borkowsky
Apr 18, 20131 min read
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The Tentative Steps Towards Selling Paint
I’ve made some lovely jars of paint. Now what? I have now been living in Sheffield for over two months and, frankly, I think I’m doing...

Michael Borkowsky
Mar 29, 20132 min read
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Food for Paint’s Sake
How can art made from food be made relevant? A simple Google search of art and food conjures up so many insipid images of landscapes...

Michael Borkowsky
Mar 21, 20132 min read
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