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Mending the Coverlet. Coverlet Detail. by Phyllis Griffiths (my grandmother) and Carole Day. Textile and felt. Mending the Coverlet Some things cannot be mended. Some can. When my sister’s husband, Nick, died following a motorcycle accident, a kind of chaotic […]

Shivery Dog Shivery Dog in the Garden by Carole Day. Sepia ink pen. When my brother Michael died, and we moved to Esher Road, I guess I must have been lonely. Although I don’t remember being with Michael, my mother […]

Today the adrenaline started to wear off a bit and the jetlag pushed forwards, so I decided to start with an Uncle Joe special – broccoli and feta omelette with the largest hash brown I have ever seen. Plus (UK […]

Mind Burst by Carole Day. Felt tip pens and brushes. Meditation  When I was working in Acton on the Mobile Libraries, one of my colleagues, Judith, introduced me to meditation. Judith didn’t practice meditation herself, she attended the sister School […]

I’ve entered three of my Shetland charcoal landscapes for the April Boldbrush Art Contest. As you may know, these charcoals were drawn on gorgeously textured hand-made paper during my recent residency on Shetland. Whenever I was out and about on […]

My first meeting was with media artist Sharon Daniel. Sharon uses new media techniques to create interactive mixed media installations. She creates work that highlights social injustices and inequalities: this is art that aims to challenge opinions and change minds. […]

Update: 08/06/22: These are some of my favourite pen and ink drawings that I completed, and I am especially pleased with the clarity that the scan reproduced them with. These drawings also show-case the new skill I found with using the Rotring technical […]

The first side of my painting has been critiqued in our last university critique. The painting was overally apprecciated and lead to people having various thoughts about it. From reading my notes from that day, the fact that I painted […]

In a previous tutorial with Anne-Marie, I was told about Tracedown – which is a form of carbon paper for artists. I have to admit that I was sceptical about it – partly from my own sense of internal ‘snobbery’, […]

Towards the end of March, I was lucky enough to have a tutorial with a visiting Royal Academy MA Student, Anna. As the most recent body of work that Anna is producing is based around the climate crisis, I felt […]

I’ve been thinking about names. As the artist, untitled is fine, I make the work, spend time with it, know it intimately and no name is needed; I move through relationship phases, by turns falling in love, hating it, arguing, […]

Today’s main agenda item: a visit to the San Francisco Musem of Modern Art (SFMOMA) and a chance to find my way around the city. SFMOMA is one of the signature temples of modern art around the world: a bright, […]

I recently took a two-day online course with the School of Painting on Bonnard and The Electric Light, taught by Alice Mumford. My knowledge of Bonnard was scant and it was so interesting to learn about his paintings and techniques. The role of […]

I’ve been thinking about sketchbooks. They are beautiful things, well they can be. I love the paraphernalia of them, the elasticated straps that hold them in place, the endpapers, the red ribbons that save a page. I like them small, […]