Blogs - a-n The Artists Information Company

Mixed media paintings using collage and palette-knife-applied acrylics

I have a long-established interest in non–places & transitional zones which include motorway services, airports & business parks. My local research point is Europarc & its surrounding environs. The site is a short drive from my rural village home in Northern Lincolnshire.

About being a disabled artist late in life

blog of on going non linear artwork/film/documentary commission, part of the arts and heritage pilot programme of the museum of making at derby silk mill. the finished work is to be installed into the museum of making.

Project Me: charting the progress of my practice since 2007

Conversations with artists about their work and the creative process

Blog about a series of new work I am creating exploring the five Platonic solids through sculpture and associated therapeutic sounds, creating sound installations designed for welbeing and holistic engagement.

Documenting my practice as an artist, while also juggling a full time job and my personal life. Account Executive by day, Artist by night.

For a few years now, weaving in and out and alongside my visual arts practice I have a growing audio practice. In order to give this a sharper focus, I have decided to give it some space of its own. And I now have funding from Arts Council England to help it on its way!

  The increasingly intense exploration of drawing… and the threads between words, music and a bundle of old clothes…

the vegetables, herbs, fruit, flowers that come off my allotment this year plus attendant thoughts

I am discovering, meeting, and interviewing artists and write about it about four times a year.

Tales of the pretty much expected….and sometimes not

Job hunting, looking for work, open for commissions.

comments and images relating to my artistic practice

Check out these YouTube introductory videos on some essential Creative Technology tools for artists, students and young people that I made at BOM

keeping an annual blog has become a thing for me now. this year i’m interested in what the twelve in twenty might be.

The moment the work happens. The circumstance of inspiration. As told by an invited series of artists. This blog document the multiple dialogues which contributed to the planning and implementation of this project and the journey towards bringing the exhibition to life.

Thinking about two senses of the word ‘gesture’ – researching and developing a new body of work with the help of the a-n Mentoring Bursary 2019.

My reflections on persistence, learning, earning, being an artist, on being a man, the ‘Artists Insight’ project, the theory of ‘The Creative Cycle’. I aim to reveal some of the questions and contradictions involved in living with an art practice in the real world.