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Because I only had video footage of the beach/sea environment, I decided to also project images of other areas, to get a rough idea of how they will look.

But hey – before more of the back story, here’s an introduction to two of the characters born from my imagination and based on a lifetime of meeting such people. Of course, their story is at an end before it […]

This week, we are also joined by Abraham Oscar Frostrithick, a Master Mariner in the old style, although not being terribly old himself. Abraham has journeyed far and seen much of what there is to see. His adventures led him […]

If you look around you, as an artist you will probably find a few ‘experiments’ you have embarked-upon. Some successful; some not so. I have two indoor studio spaces, and a vast outside one called ‘the world’. My spaces contain […]

Reflecting on the painting ‘Invidia’ Instead of staging particular emotions, I decided to think about how to capture real genuine emotions. With this sketch I took a photograph of the subject to capture the exact emotion that triggered me towards […]

This is the final painting of the Lana Del Rey portrait which is titled ‘Falling Into The Abyss’ which captured someone who is becoming lost to the world that she lives in. The still really captures the emotion that I […]

reflection 3: How did I get here ? The process of achieving new opportunities is a Sisyphian task, researaching the right kind of opportunities, planning, exploring, writing proposals, re-sizing jpegs, testing out ideas, trying to not get too excited by […]

The first venue St Columba’s Church, Scarborough, came to me as it is my mother’s local church. My father was a C of E priest & so was my mother’s father who was also a school/ army chaplain. My name […]

Desire Lines With note-books bulging, ideas badly in need of an edit and the ‘nub’ of the artwork still not found, I went walking with a Ranger. As we talked, walked and ultimately climbed, instead of materials and ideas percolating […]

I’ve just finished the second version of Not at Clifford Chance (top right), which investigates how multiple small images fair when placed on a complex scaffolding support structure. I’ve got mixed feeling about the results. On one hand, the general […]

‘The human- animal relationship has always been something that has fascinated and confused me simultaneously. I use animals in my work as a catharsis for the conflicting feelings I have around the issue and to make people think about the […]

Step 1; Inside Out. I have decided to get support during the full process of shaping a proposal for an advertised commission as a way of learning and improving my chances. I am almost three weeks in the mentoring process; […]

As I’m part-time I have weekly breaks. between painting and I have been finding this frustrating – a regular stopping and starting. Today, after a week of thinking about my progress I finally got back to some painting.The work is […]

In my project i am trying to take something beautiful and delicate (handmade craft), and remove it from it’s familiar craft home. In doing this i will put the work into a a thought provoking and questionable environment. Just like […]

This is not directly relevant to my work but it is (well i think it is) a powerful quote from Bruce Lee in one of his movies. I feel the words speak truths throughout everything you can do including making […]

Another week has flown by and I feel I am hurtling towards the end of my residency-I have 2 months left and I know it will go quickly-There is so much I still want to do. I have a number […]

As I am just embarking on a new project freshly funded by the Arts Council of England (so fresh I am still to receive the first paycheque!), I thought it would be fun (and might be mildly entertaining or a […]