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Week 22: 11th – 17th FebruaryI often enjoy looking at the bigger picture and the different factors that connect things, so it was with this in mind that I set about contemplating this week’s blog post: the structures of education […]

The Things I’m Too Embarrassed To Say I went home the other night and decided to speak. Nobody was there to hear me. I think the documentation becomes more interesting the longer I am speaking as my facial expression evoke […]

I told you there would be more questions. I look at the nature of my tools: my stitch is my pixel, my building block. What am I building then? My work up to now has been more emotive, life driven, […]

More material to work with = more happiness + more excitement.

So I’ve realised it’s been a little while since my last post – BUT now I’m back – and ready with numerous ideas, sketchbook pages and numerous draft posts to update you with. These will allbe updated over the next […]

Recently I’ve been working on some ideas for my degree show. This post is going to concentrate on a few designs that I’ve been working on for a while. They all have evolved from some of my ideas and art […]

The problem with theory is that the more that is read, the more thoughts, connections and ideas are brought to mind, but then again that is great. And I guess a contradictory statement typical from me to make to start […]

This week I have managed to prioritise stuff that isn’t URGENT but that is what I NEED to do. In the hunt for some materials in my storeroom I found an embarrassing number of ‘unfinisheds’. For my own sanity THIS […]

‘Rules, colours and 243‘ Portsmouth, Southbank and Clerkenwell Rd: February 21st awake at 4:32 am startled snooze thinking about day worried that knee may not hold through total journey re-wake at 5:23 am snooze listening to news counting items to […]

Butley mills. Today went really well and I have come away refreshed and excited that there are places outside of uni that exist like this, I can’t wait to go back again.

Uppermost in the artist’s mind is the contradictary challenges of need and want. The exterior juxtoposition of urgency vying with the tormentuous challenge of the ‘should’. When time priority coincides with ego-driven necessity; the wrong verses the right ceases to […]

An Interview with Claire Ringrose: How is preparation for the degree show going? So far I’ve found a couple of sponsors and helped with several bake sales at university. I’m mainly involved in fundraising and finding sponsorship for the show. […]

This is the sort of week I’d like to be able to do every week. Having the time to be able to combine the everyday running of a house ( basic tidying, doing the laundry and food shopping) with long […]

Transition A bit more success. The Green Door Art Group based in Kendal has an exhibition at The Brewery Arts centre in town. The theme was Transition and I submitted 3 pieces and they were all selected for the show. […]

In my tutorials with Rosalind Davis and Freddie Robins I was encouraged to widen the scope for exposure for my work and consider applied art opportunities. Time to dust down my fine-art airs and send off an application for membership […]

All or nothing, I can’t stand the word moderation … Perhaps this can explain why I go months with no entries on my blog and then in one day I work my way through scraps of paper, various note books […]

As mentioned before, Ellsworth Kelly has been a major influence for my studio works and has a strong and continuing input. But I’ve recently started looking at Gerhard Richter, specifically his Mirror Painting series. I first came across this series […]

‘angry at the empty rooms’ Portsmouth: February 21st Awake 4:32 am hour 1: listen to the railway station sart up in darkness Hour 2: Brit chat on indistinct radio through hot pillow hour 3: Make tea make toast and eat […]

Ok… Why is stitching different to a drawn line? Why do I choose to stitch onto these garments, this fabric? I could write/draw on them couldn’t I? And sometimes I do, in order to keep the stitches from straying, then […]