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BEGIN THE BEGUINE Given that a few arrangements fell through this week, I still seem to have been pretty busy. I have been, shaping my strategy… Ha! That sounds like a crass corporate slogan. The task in hand is really […]

I’ve arranged to spend a day at The White Tree Studios in Chapel Ash, Wolverhampton next month. Belinda Longsden has very kindly said I can use some of their space. I have about 3 or 4 music/sound ideas muddled up […]

Yesterday a trip to one of my favourite places.. Romney Marsh. A flat silt plain that until the 1950s was inhabited only by sheep. Across the long, flat vista can be seen Dungeness Power Station – promising me the wonders […]

Took Off-cutter in the form of Real/Non-Real to Manchester this weekend as part of habarts ‘Emergency’, more than 40 live art pieces across the city. I was in Castlefield Gallery, with objects set out on trestles. I moved the the […]

Just a quick post to let you know I’ve been out! art-out! this week, for a very interesting, as yet to be processed tutorial with Freddie Robins at ZAP. Sofa-to-sofa transfer. Arrived with a small entourage – a changeling, a […]

Good to catch up with Rosie Gibson in the macrobert arts centre. Rosie and I graduated in 2001 from Glasgow School of Art and she is currently working as artist in residence at th Macrobert researching a sculpture project for […]

THE START OF AN IDEA – INSTALLATION? Trip on the River Stour . Bright sunlight. We stopped off at Cornard Education Centre where the restored Constable Barge is moored. A lovely wooden building built with Heritage Grant money; presently very […]

Finding this is becoming addictive!!…Reading a lot about Lucian Freud for my dissertation. Painting a portrait is an attempt to not just replicate the image of the sitter, but to capture something of their essence. But as yet….I am not […]

Getting involved in the Sound and Vision events gave me a chance to explore ideas of stage-set/background that should work in certain situations. The first outcome was a structure strictly designated for this event. It was erected for one day […]

Sitting in studio space. About to start some research for my first draft chapter for my dissertation. Reading ‘ Man with a Blue Scarf’. A book written about sitting for a portrait painted by Lucian Freud. Hope it will give […]

I arrived back at uni after a weekend trip to London, where, among other things, I’d paid a visit to the Wellcome Collection. I’ve long been aware of the Wellcome Trust’s commissioning programme and their affiliation with the artworld, however, […]

The Pecha Kucha event went well, I’ve developed a cold over the past week, and have mostly been feeling rubbish, so I’ve had a couple of days at home doing some promo for the exhibition, and organising things ready for […]

I started to wear my winter coat again this week and reaching into the depths of zipped up, rarely used pockets, I found paraphernalia on SUPERMARKET. It was SUPERMARKET that brought us where we are today – manically hovering between […]

SWIMMING – MY FAVOURITE THING Last week I swam in a river – very cold!!! the water was lovely – silky smooth; sunlight on the ripples Acrylic and oil-bar paintings from photos taken at Ipswich Waterfront. My comfort zone. I […]

Colour This afternoon was spent at the Archive, catching up on some of those Land Tax records from yesterday. Desperate for some colour in all that fairly neutral paper, parchment and ink I sought to collect a series of images […]

Have got half way through ‘Man with a Blue Scarf’…a book written by Martin Gayford. Martin Gayford sat as a ‘sitter’ for Lucian Freud for a year and some… ‘Man with a Blue Scarf is a book written by Gayford […]