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To sound quintessentially English – Summer is a delight at Hestercombe.  The gardens are in full bloom and the landscape is bursting with vibrant foliage and healthy flora.  My recent stay was different to my previous experiences merely because now […]

My father is a big believer in seeing progression in artistic practice as a key to quality. His big bugbears (well one of them) is the ‘one trick pony’ artist (fill in your own names here). This is obviously a […]

In thinking about producing reproduction images on postcards (from week 76) and the Andre Malraux research from my previous exhibition The Imaginary Museum, I thought it might be useful to consider some of the processes involved throughout the history of […]

After this week’s hospital appointment it’s official – P.O.T.S. meds aren’t working, and I’m to come off. I knew, I did; daily tried not to; stayed on those pills for months beyond the doctor’s orders, speaking mantras when popping, willing my […]

I’ve noticed fairly recently that sitting down and having rests on the dog walk is perfectly OK. It never used to be that way, and if I stopped to chat to somebody or just sat to look at the view […]

  Last day off.  Well, it’s actually my normal day off after being off sick for two days, but even in that short time, I’ve started to enjoy the comfort of lying on the settee watching TV and scrolling through […]

Lynn at the ancient Yew Tree Well, I’ve tried four times to upload an image here and every time I try to do this I lose my text and have to start all over again! surely someone else is having […]

Well the word from that silent Council planning officer mentioned in the previous post came through yesterday, permission was granted but not without another set of hoops to jump through first. “No development or other operation shall commence on site […]

The whole self-employed thing is great, I love feeling so liberated, being able to decide what I do and when. However, after decades of employment and salary, however meagre, the lack of regular payment is hard going. Cash flow is […]

Friday. My final day with Halen Mon is drawing to a close. It’s gorgeous here, and I’d love to stay. I have so many ideas for art, ranging from the semi functional to the more fantastical, but how best to […]

In 2011, while still in a post-MA fog, I was approached via the Saatchi website by D. Domininck Lombardi; artist, curator and critic, based in New York. He was writing an article on repurposing of materials in art and invited […]

My second day at Halen Mon has been a day of finding connections and correlation. There’s the fascinating visual likeness between the mountains of Snowdonia visible across the Menai Straight, and the pyramid-like salt crystals produced from the Menai Straight […]

I was particularly interested in working with Darren Ellis because of his work, his interest in how movement is influenced and determined by circumstances, and his enthusiasm for working with other people from a range of disciplines. Examples include From […]

The idea of working with a web of elastic emerged from work that I developed during my M.A. in Fine Art at Norwich University for the Arts. By setting up circumstances that challenged my physical ability to move I instigated […]