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A highly emotional day at Barcelona in a Bag – Almudena Cros, President of the Asociación de Amigos de las Brigadas Internacionales, made me a gift of this genuine Retirada suitcase, and sent it through the post from Madrid. Essentially […]

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The main components of my work for the past year or so has been comparing and contrasting images and aspects of everyday life and my experience of assimilating to the reality of essentially living in two places at once. Although […]

The search for a mentor is ongoing, but really what I am needing is astute criticism! My current fascination with chaos and order (stemming from talking about art and maths) has led to thinking about my work in those terms.  […]

I am starting a new project at University it sounds like a great opportunity to explore and create new work. The project is called Project 10 and involves 10 students over 10 week working within the loose theme of 10. […]

Photo shoot with Adele and Pat today in the very cold training pool!

I had an idea to raise funds for our L6 Degree show – Soup n Roll. I thought that Andy Warhol wouldn’t mind me borrowing his Campbell’s Soup Can image. I found an old 5 gallon oil drum and painted […]

I have a great respect and admiration for the great Old Masters and Contemporary artists who have painted large canvases with large areas of intricate of pattern. In particular I am thinking of …. Joshua Reynolds, Gainsborough, Gustav Klimt and […]

Next part to work on is the head and turban. As the original photograph I based my work on has blond hair dressed into a bun, I looked for examples on the internet and found a very beautiful Nigerian female […]

Our third and final Open Studio enabled us to install work emerging from our R&D in a new context and to get feedback from a different audience. We immediately responded to the studio at Metal, which corresponds with my studio, […]

The next stage in our degree was to make work in collaboration with another person or organisation. They needed to be local, or getting the work installed would be very difficult. I wanted to pursue my cine film investigations. Our […]

I was so sad to leave Xiamen.  I didn’t realise how much I dislike endings and how unsettled I feel by change and how sentimental I seem to have become!  I told Ineke how sad I was and that every […]

I’ve learned to love the studio again. After months of agonising over what, where, how and especially why, I think I have resolved something. The coming together of practice and theory to develop an idea, not an illustration of the […]