A House of Lords debate on government support for individual artists, led by the Earl of Clancarty, attracted contributions from the three main parties and crossbench peers.
Its something that i have been thinking about recently, why do we take so many selfies is it to indulge our own ego or is it to make others think better of ourselves. As you can see i am also […]
I was going to include an extract from my journal. I remembered writing in it just before Christmas and thinking that I had reached an important point in my work and ideas. I had just had a group crit and […]
Arts Council Wales Corporate Plan from 2013 – 2018.
Sonia Boué and I have both recently blogged about the cycles of work and thought, the state of flow, the state of staring into the middle distance and the state I previously have referred to as a slump, but is […]
With a strike ballot of National Gallery staff currently taking place over plans to privatise jobs, the PCS union has organised a day of action culminating in a protest in Trafalgar Square.
This week’s selections include contemporary abstract paintings in London, a feature-length film installation in Sheffield, and in Edinburgh a look at two once famous and now largely forgotten Scottish painters of the 1940s.
A few days ago the Tangled Yarns exhibition brought me another “first” – the shooting of my first TV interview. I was being interviewed by journalist and filmmaker Lea Borromeo for The World today with Tariq Ali. Lea and I share […]
After the pain of writing my dissertation my creativity have been at an all time low. I have had little time to paint and when I do its in dark blues.I think this comes with the change of my mood. […]
50×50 cm acrylic paint ink and glitter on canvas. This picture is inspired by this Alan Watts quote. “It’s like you took a bottle of ink and you threw it at a wall. Smash! And all that ink spread. And […]
Some drawings of skyscrapers i have done following on from some of my photographs. I love using pen and ink in my works especially mixing different techniques together
Currently working on the theme of memory with a few paintings in particular. At this stage I am combining ‘found objects’ to use the artistic convention, with a base layer of texture provided by sand. The objects are a combination […]
AUDIOBLOG -Please click here We decided to slot in an extra session as we were both suddenly free. We have a certain amount of sessions booked, with a couple of extras as a contingency. I am fairly flexible, this […]
It has been a difficult week, starting back after a long break for Christmas and New Year. For the first time I have not had to work (paid work) through this holiday break and had expected to spend plenty time […]
I was advised by my lecturer to visit the Sigmar Polke show at the Tate before it finished in February so I arranged a day trip to London and I was not disappointed. This show is a classic example of […]
Today I completed the application for the Bloomberg New Comtemporaries. You can submit 6 works and have to send then images as the first stage of the application. Having seen the show in Liverpool for the last 2 years, I […]
Well, university finished on the 18th of December and after the fun of Christmas I had to go back to work to create a new painting quite quickly with a deadline hand-in date of the Monday the 5th of January. […]
I’ve set my self the goal of making something in the studio every day, based on a list of starting points to further my practice. One of my current concerns is collecting and arranging collage off-cuts and I’m experimenting with […]
These 3 Designs will be coloured on illustrator and then fit into a triangular shape. The shape is because the designs will be featured on an 8 sided spire that will be about 15 foot tall. I’m really pleased with […]
