Page 1029 – a-n The Artists Information Company

AUDIOBLOG – Please click here   Today seems to be a not-making day so far. Today is a facilitating the making sort of day. I was woken by my phone, I was bleary and incoherent, the Travis Perkins man asked […]

It’s one of those dog walks that are really just a chore. It’s cold quite blustery with rain sort of coming and going from time to time. It’s unpleasant, not bad. This makes no difference to Cosmo in the slightest, […]

my post today is a thinking out loud prior to making a descision.  my race isn’t with demons, if it were the thoughts would be privately published in a password protected page … the racing demons reference is a bit […]

I’m not very good at documenting my work. I realised this when I decided to set up a facebook ‘artist’ page, to use as a tool to separate images of my work from personal posts . Where is my work??? […]

My work this year is based around sexual child abuse and its’ repercussions. There have been many media reports on this subject in recent times and several public figures have been shown to have been abusers of children. Jimmy Saville […]

In the spirit of continuing to progress my practice I have decided to enter works into both the Royal Academy summer show and the Royal West of England academy show. I guess it will help me focus on completing work […]

Fruitful and satisfying research yields sustainable practice and massively contributes towards exhibition. More images and thoughts to follow!

WEEK 14 Artists in attendance 11 Happy New Year! Above is a picture of some of the group (a jolly, enthusiastic bunch!) After a lovely kind of relaxing 2 weeks off I thought I would start the New Year with […]

  A little boy in school uniform stands so still under the pine tree, staring down. A pigeon lay dead on its back. I stop and look with him. “Birds die quickly.” he says, “My birds at home die quickly. […]

These two pieces were designed for the church the first being about wisdom and it shows the unwise choices humanity is making. The second shows modern day fears linked with fear of the Lord. These Next images are my designs […]

Recently, in my work, I’ve been exploring the darker side of technology. These paintings are based loosely around the the concept of population control via genetic manipulation and the artificial shifting of consciousness.

I have been working on my collages on oak board over the last month or so. It has been intermittent, with lots of gaps in between. Some of them worked, some of them didn’t. I am not very good at […]

I have done it!  After agonising over my role on the committee of Ryedale ArtWorks for six months or so, I have finally resigned.  I need more time to myself in the studio, plus; fighting fracking up here is getting […]

i’ve been holed up with a cold over the weekend and today am really pleased to be feeling better. i’ve celebrated this by getting my arduino out and playing some more. today it’s been with a 7 segment led display. […]

Having re-primed the canvas I have an idea that I will paint a female figure that is “wrapped” in clothing Re Think I researched on the web, in magazines and books and have come up with several images that I […]

Over the summer break I decided to make and paint a large canvas (1.8×1.2m). I researched for my dissertation the work of past old masters and in particular a painting by Velasquez. Diego Velasquez, Rokeby Venus, c. 1647–51. 122cm x […]

Investigating the shape of the body and its surroundings using only black and white oil paint was a real challenge. I found the extra life painting classes at uni a great opportunity of improving my painting technique. Kathryn Raffell, 2015, […]