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Letter to the school attended by our elder two daughters.

Home Truths: Photography, Motherhood and Identity is spread across two locations: The Photographers’ Gallery, and The Foundling Museum. Coincidentally we made a piece of work for The Foundling Museum about five years ago. Home Truths is described as ‘an exhibition […]

Do art and coffee go together? Working in the studio or writing, it certainly seems to be the case. What about the exhibition space? What about the cafe-gallery as a model? In 2.5 years running an artist run space (Studio75) […]

Notes From The Rehearsal Space Can I find a bridge between two opposite directions? Can I let go of my frustration?Can I lay bare my emotions?Can I use color?Can I see you as a mirror?Can I talk about life in […]

DREAM ON …or straddling the world of self promotion whilst trying to get on with new work. I have it in mind to offer this piece as a series of single screen one off showings but with an intro by […]

You don’t learn from what you know… you learn from what you don’t know! Obvious really, but oft forgotten me thinks… I forgot… took for granted… thought I was safe… secure with the knowledge of a lifetimes gathering… Complacency. I […]

Surprising how many people think that the AIR Public Liability insurance also protects their artwork. I found this out through discussions with artists over the last few days. I’m debating whether the value of my work will run into thousands… […]

My 1 click Amazon orders (fatal!) are arriving and still more to come. I received a wonderful book on Angela de la Cruz yesterday- I saw her work some years ago in Camden Art centre. Her approach to painting and […]

A fellow studio holder helped me nail a huge black canvas to the studio wall today. I planned to work big but seeing it on the wall was a bit intimidating -However I have plans and can’t wait to get […]

We met Judith when we were employed as Associate Artists at firstsite gallery, Colchester. At the time Judith was Artists’ Support Researcher at firstsite, and like us, she was regularly commuting to Colchester. Every so often we would coincide on […]

Goodbye Shanghai. I will miss the haze and height, the whitewashed trunks, the red pearlescence, the “rooms pretending to be boats”, the clasp of the fog, the kindness, the hard work, the optimism and the open mouths. I will not […]

Ben‘s paintings, A construct (2) and Head Construct (1) frame Kate’s Here Today. With Charlotte’s Weaklings and my Every day we tried to be good they make an interesting little grouping, partially anchored in the real, the every day, partly […]

And now look up, there’s I am a stick, I am a stone, as if the wood from Karen‘s Genius loci were thrown in the air and shift-shaped. The piece, mounted high up on the wall next to the doorway, […]

But, this is where I catch my breath, on its left hangs This is a room I’ve never lived in, the piece that brought the return of the repressed Hitler salute in my work, dare I write it, a small […]

The Beginning of History – a view from inside This exhibition stays alive in me, and every time I mentally step inside new layers of beauty and meaning beckon. Pain too, and challenge. First thing you encounter is Ben Cove‘s […]

A few years ago, I attended a talk about the senses. I learned that there is widespread disagreement about how many there actually are. Some of the disagreements are cultural, some scientific. There are arguments for 5 or 6 or […]

After my experience with damaged work, I’m now looking into what galleries offer in the way of insurance of works during exhibitions – especially Open exhibitions. I’m picking three that are doing the rounds on facebook at the moment, as […]

During the first couple of weeks I moved things around in the studio several times-I guess this will be ongoing!!! On November 15th ASP arranged a “meet the artist” event-this was a chance for other members of ASP to come […]

I am experimenting with different textures and ways of using oils. For the first few test pieces I used the paint as thick as possible with lots of texture. I am now trying the opposite-oils thinned down with turps. I […]

I know I only posted yesterday, but I wanted to get this photo up. I made the pants. I’m really pleased with these items. They do lots of things… they make me smile for one. I like the feel of […]

Pointeso Art Scene: Flowers. X nervously shambled around the peripheries of Vaconsoft Parkway – stumbling upon an intervention by Collicov Collective. X gazed into ther rippling water. It could hear a keyboard tapping somewhere. Drift. You don’t see flowers anymore. […]

So, now college has finshed for the term, I am without inside painting space and so for now the garden will have to do. The photos I’ve put with this post were taken while the paint was wet. The dried […]

<EO> Adox CMS 20 Document Film High contrast, high resolution film used for ultra-fine grain 35mm work with exceptional sharpness. Adotech developer is recommended. This image was shot with flash, which can be seen in the hard shadows. The quality […]

<EO> Ilford Delta 100 pushed 2 stops. What intrigued me about this set up was how the nature of the film had drastically changed by push processing. The film’s intrinsic characteristics in terms of how it records black and white, […]

<EO> Ilford Pan F An off the shelf back and white film, developed as standard. It behaves as expected. There’s some evidence of lens flare leading to areas of light bleeding back into the image (bottom left). There’s a full […]