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Notes, sketches and works in progress

Keeping a schedule in lockdown

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

I’ve been lucky enough to be given access to a garden over lockdown – I live in a small-ish two bedroom flat on the second floor, nice views of London but no garden space. Going out onto the streets to […]

I have no clear understanding where I stop and my children begin, this is mirrored Through object in that I am the house, the kitchen, the bath, the dogs, the bitty Lego carpet and my un made bed.

Textile Echoes: Annette Mills, Delia Salter, Jennifer Jones and Tara Kennedy are textile artists who have been accepted for a month’s residency at The Textile Centre, Blonduos, Iceland.

Approaching perfumery from a fine art context, this blog describes how scent is a viable means of communication.

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

A lockdown project exchanging artwork with other artists, displaying it and discussing the process.

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

I have undertaken professional development and mentoring with experts that supported me advance my arts practice. I have explored and developed my professional practice as an aquatic performer by researching business strategies with Joel Cahen, audio/visual practitioner.

When Covid strikes and that you’re already in lockdown, you’ve got no choice but to come out….

An alternative view of the landscape

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.

After months of isolation we crave togetherness, yet seasonal music festivals are a no no. The Selecter, whose 2-Tone music sought to defuse racial tensions in Thatcher’s Britain, remind us of our humanity. Relevant then as now. Different media, different sides of live music.

An artist placement at manufacturer Ritherdon & Co Ltd, taking place between Feb 2019 – Feb 2020. A development from an Art in Manufacturing 2 residency for the National Festival of Making 2018. Supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England.

“How do you know but ev’ry Bird that cuts the airy way,
Is an immense world of delight, clos’d by your senses five?”