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December has been rather taken up by travel, family visits  and Christmassy things, hence a bit quiet on the blog front…  Well, nothing like another event  to get me to focus again on Tangled Yarns! I’ll be giving an artist talk at […]

for the last six months i’ve been recording electricity demand on the first monday of the month.  i have no idea how i’ll use the data. for now i’m recording and that’s as far as it goes. i find it […]

Since completing several pieces of work recently – mostly drawing from older source material I have found myself at a point where although the work is flowing freely I feel I need to conduct some research into subjects I consider […]

AUDIOBLOG – Please click here It’s happening fast, now we’ve started, so it is hard to know where to start! Two days of recording then… I want to try to get down what I’ve learned as I go along. This […]

Over the past couple of months I have serendipitously stumbled upon a couple of artist talks while visiting galleries. They have reminded me how important such events are for my own artistic development. Reading is great, but there is definitely […]

So today has been a bit of a mish mash and has, like the Presley song, “sent my  temperature rising”, but not I feel, for the same reason as Presley.  In fact I am so miffed that I decided to […]

It was 4c today up here; I didn’t get to the studio until about 11.30 by the time I had found my extra scarf, painty fleece, hat etc. There was evidence of mice when I finally got inside having battled […]

we’ve put the dceorations back in the loft, the youngest children have been rewarded for their dancing efforts last year and the bdo championship is hotting up.  i’m returing to my new year rhythm. with the final two thirds of the […]

The paintings have made it to the CEAC gallery in one piece.  It was a little stressful getting them from my studio, over the balcony to the ground floor, into in a truck that was too small so they stuck […]

As Mr Cummins and Mr Piper were awarded MBE’s in the New Year’s honours for their ceramic field of poppies around the Tower of London, I pondered as to whether it is an honour or not an honour to receive […]

Visiting Artists or read all about it Artists are not always in for visitors. “Fear not”, the older and wiser artist says, “artists are show offs no matter what they say, otherwise what is the sodding point; all you need […]

Sonia Boué, Arena y Mar, mixed media on canvas, 2014 For the first time next week I will exhibit alongside Jonathan Moss in a show entitled EXILE, which focuses on the internment camps of France in which Spanish exiles were […]

So I have spent the majority of my day building a bookcase.  The bookcase in question is a rather lowly one from Argos.  It is based on a walnut wood, although it is more like fire or chipboard with a […]