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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 […]

While on my recent (quick) visit to Liverpool to attend the John Moores Painting prize PV – I noticed on my early morning walk back through the city that some of the paving has similar qualities to the sandstone clay […]

Some of my intuitive painting from this month.

I take up residence along the back wall of the studio, a large wooden arch window provides a cool breeze, and a view looking out over the spanish courtyard; if I lean out far enough I can reach a loquat […]

The last couple of weeks as a graduate have been amazing and are dramatically changing. I’ve returned from the international iron conference and have two major exhibitions under my belt one of which is in Newcastle Upon Tyne, the Woon […]

Well, it’s over for another year Life & Other Art Festival… fondly known as LOAF, has been packed away. My shed is back in its place in the garden, The musicians have toddled off to other gigs, and the art […]

Artist’s Janet French and Emma Buckmaster will be at Art in Action 2014 from 17-20th July demonstrating the collaborative project that they have been working on. ‘Tree Portraits’ are a series of etchings of native tree species printed on to […]