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I anticipated my drawing of a female model would be life-size, perhaps just over 6ft tall. In fact it will stand just over 8ft tall. This means that the young girl by her side will be almost my height and […]

So now to a work of filigree, of fine paper cutting, as I work on the third garment of the series “…bloody Women…!” The white (slightly sheer) over-dress of this piece will be longer than any others I’ve done, the […]

You know what they say about buses, well, it looks like the same can be applied to curators. After a number of cancelled and delayed dates for meetings, eventually they both came one after the other. The one thing that […]

I have called this blog ‘Mirror, signal, manoeuvre’ because I have been thinking about mentoring as an opportunity to look back, take stock of what I have done so far, take note of what is currently happening with my work […]

Tomorrow I set sail (well a train and two planes) to Taiwan. Expectations are high but so they should be – Taiwan has an extremely vibrant art scene, particularly in Taipei – a city which boasts its own artist village, […]

So, here I am; getting more grown up with every day that passes in my very late-starting career as an artist! Since moving to North Yorkshire from Hampshire eight years ago and taking five of these to recover from an […]

Over the next few days, extracts from Jack Welsh’s commissioned text for Portfolio NW will be posted on the blog. Here is the first extract: Platforms: Portfolio NW and its relationship to arts criticism. If you trawl through the abundance […]

Sketchbook I had an idea ages ago that I thought would work really well, would take this body of work into the three dimensional, and allow me to project digital images onto something other than a wall. I’m very impatient. […]

OUTWARD LOOKING Well, I started on my Re:view road trip, and then jarringly ground to a halt last Tuesday. Clambering over a pile of stuff in my studio, I hurtled through space, heard a loud crack and just knew I […]

One week this Thursday and it will be the exhibition opening. I feel quite calm about it and thankfully mainly on track. I am now at a point of thinking about my talk, going over my research and attempting to […]

Week 41: 24th – 30th JuneThe day of the transfer assessment was finally here. I’d written previously about the requirements and outcomes for the transfer process (in week 30), so I knew what to expect, but despite this (and reassurances […]

Had a great day yesterday of free form researching (improv researching?) online. Here’s what I found, starting with following this link from artist Lyndsey Perth on (https://twitter.com/lippi) on Twitter: ‘Manipulated Photographs, Manipulated Memories‘http://petapixel.com/2013/07/28/manipulated-photog…An interesting blog post by a neuroscientist working […]

‘Swimming free in a clear trout stream’ Tuesday 30th July Very briefly in addition to last post why I believe All children should be encouraged to fulfill their artistic dream – I said I would be an artist aged six […]

Betrayal Fish in a clear trout stream Sit still! Don’t, catch his eye! Stay invisible in the clear trout stream Even if you think, he will see you Stare intently reading the patterns on the dull wooden desk as the […]

My next location is listed as’Nr Markeaton’. The painting shows a path or road curving into the distance. Two figures are walking away from the viewer towards a 5 bar gate. Unsure of where to start I drive to Markeaton […]

It all worked. So I think some thanks are in order. Huge thanks are due to Alasdair Swenson, who developed the programme that makes the arrows move and interact. He’s setting upwww.irregulardesign.com to do more stuff like this. Working with […]

My latest work signifies something of a breakthrough in terms of what a jar of paint can depict: An intelligible degree of subjection is instantly attached to the contents of each jar. They no longer represent paint; they represent the […]