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I’m keeping my fingers crossed about using certain studio space in Abergavenny that I have found…in a few weeks I should know if it’s a definite maybe!  This is core to building momentum in my practice.  I wrote myself very […]

Does anyone else out there ever feel like there are just not enough days in a week for studio time and artistic admin, let alone family time and normal domestic chores? Last spring I wrapped up work at my husband’s […]

Someone asked me or maybe they told me, I can’t now quite remember how it was phrased… “Funding makes you lazy” First off, that made me a bit cross…. Anyone who has completed an ACE application form, successfully or otherwise […]

Film making workshop at Holy Cross school with Bob Moyler. http://youtu.be/1G0gQvZTCGE Pupils talk from the future about their latest inventions: “The DNA Combiner” spins fruits together at a high speed and temperature to create new exotic fruits without the need […]

I managed to catch Rembrandt: The Late Works at the National Gallery last week. I might have missed it had not been for my mother’s insistence we go and see it and I am so glad I did. The prints […]

Having so far spent about half of this project carving baskets, I am delighted to say that after a further 5 days behind the curtain, the last main basket object is done, and inking up is just around the corner! […]

I have always been interested in space and mindfulness. I like the thought of space that there is more to the world that what is around me as society norms often depresses me, when I think that we are all […]

One of the Artists I looked at was Joseph Mallord William Turner. Turner’s works are recognised as being the most successful at capturing the effect of boundlessness. Joseph Mallord William Turner:  The Devils Bridge, St Gotthard: (1803-4) Media: Oil on […]

What a week of bickering!  You would think there was an election looming or something of the sort.  The question is; will our dear prime minister enter the ‘big house’ reality TV show or not? Mind you, I can fully […]

I started to put some more layers of paint on my series of canvases. It became quite a dunting task trying to paint them all at once and they started to loose their individuality. I decided that it would be […]

Richard returned with a van full of wood. We decided to plane it down using a machine planner, and to rough it up, using a wire brush attachment, for the disk grinder. For this project, I kept all the Dates… […]

While I was in Ipswich Hospital suffering a severe Stroke, about a week after I had it, I felt my time on this planet was all over. My right arm, which I did all of my previous work with, was […]

This is the article that was put onto the Ipswich Hospital Website Art student’s determination to succeed 4th February 2014 Art student Alex Osborne was just 25 and in the third year of his art degree when he suffered a […]

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 […]

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 […]