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The curator is deep in conversation with a local artist as I pass through the museum café to join friends for lunch. I can imagine the conversation. The artist is discussing a potential exhibition, the curator explains that much as […]

Yes, stuff has to sink in. The last post was a bit scary… what next? Thankfully it didn’t last long. A long hard look/read going through the last couple of sketch books. Remind myself of the path I started along, […]

Postscript My drawing “live” method is necessarily transactional. Even if that means just eye-contact and a nod, from the performer, I need their permission to feel right. I have never had the desire to draw voyeuristically and find the feigned […]

I’ve been hit with the lurgy this weekend, which is really a gentle reminder that I can’t do as much as I would like to think I can. As my only day off this week was spent in London, I’d […]

Val Jones BA Hons Way to go?? After the Degree Show I expected to suffer a feeling of anticlimax so to avert this I planned a trip to Catterline to see where Joan Eardley lived and painted. It successfully kick-started […]

Friday. Last day. We are about on schedule to finish everything, despite the unexpected interruptions with moving soil and preparing the site. Yesterday we moved the house panels in place and started putting the roof parts on, and Scott and […]

The morning I arrive in Curbar in the Peak. It has been raining heavily. I walk with my partner, Gareth, through the campsite near the river and see a small tent surrounded by a moat. The campers look sadly on. […]

POST 25: {Guzhangian} I dreamt I was back in Dunbar, in the Harbour, trying to live and work in a fictional tall concrete ‘lighthouse’ towards the castle end of the Harbour. Storms and waves were battering the structure. I had […]

I’m talking about my installations at the Bluecoat on Saturday (tomorrow). I’ve not had much time to think about the work since it’s installation, the usual flow of peaks & troughs of exhibitions, workshops and commissions artist led events has […]

I was very pleased to have an article published by Blouin Art Info which remarked I had not, in this blog addressed the reasons for the riots yet. http://uk.blouinartinfo.com/news/story/946374/painting-exhibition-on-the-2011-riots-opens-in-tottenham#comment-480784 I have written before about the sensations of fragility that the […]