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My last post was about me starting to make work again after the blitz of creating a solo show, but that has been short lived as I’ve had to concentrate on fitting paid work in before Christmas and also working […]

Hit Girl also known as Mindy Macready is a fictional character from the film Kick-Ass. Ultimately she is not the central character but it is more of a coming of age story about a boy who brings his love of […]

I’m never sure how to tackle human skin in wood relief… Either you carve it away clean so it is just outlines or colour, you block it in as shadows, or you texture it- mostly making it look like zebra […]

ABSTRACTION 3 Week 12   Artists in attendance 13   The group is getting to grips nicely with abstraction. There have been lots of beautiful images produced over their development period. A little niggle that one member has is that […]

I have decided to walk in the woods and see if the three boys I met the last time we came here constructed anything? At about dusk we reached the pond that they mentioned and I noticed a sturdy wooden […]

I have just read Sonia Boue’s latest post in her blog Barcelona in a Bag regarding a chance sighting of her late father ( in film footage) whilst in exile during the Spanish Civil War  . The discovery clearly has a […]

Tackled the torso, I kept finding I made mistakes in similar places across the surface. Could be the density of the wood, the sharpness of the blade or a dozen other factors, bloody annoying though. I’m going to have to […]

  Stitched Time finished on 23 November with a delicious celebratory meal for those involved – the warm soup and noodles were very welcome at the end of a very miserable wet day. Stitched Time refers to both the project and […]

Making canvases. 5 nearly finished.

Pursuing the idea I had about making the numbers into objects; I had thought of them as just numbers – they can mean anything. As I made them with a pound sign they are monetary but the actual amount is […]

I am lucky to count among my friends: Talented women Strong women Funny women Triumph over adversity women Clever women Hard working women Quietly getting on with it women Noisy life and soul women Stoic women Unflappable women I know […]

So today I visited the Art college at Xiamen University.  The instructions for how to get there were (in usual China style) “You see that big white building over there,” pointing from the street at the university campus, to one […]