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——diversionary tactics———- mucking about with typewriter carbon paper pencil and paper happy friday

So this is how things stood at the end of year four. Six collaborators, six throws of the dice, six excursions into unknown territory. Six ‘detours’. Detour 1 – Stella threw a number 4 and was handed a dictionary of […]

Last night, I went to a dinner organized by PEW charitable trusts, a big arts funder in the US. I liked their description of the characteristics of the curatorial projects they favour: ‘Excellence, imagination, courage’. There were about fifteen or […]

Second and final textiles workshop tomorrow so hopefully I will have lots of embroidered names and can play with the layout together with the participants who want to be involved. I think I am going to unpick what I have […]

Thoughts cannot be resisted. Thoughts arise as He draws. The act of shading is a waiting game. Repetition, slow movement, gradual emergence, an avoidance technique, drawing as tangential life. He shades, something is released in passing, a consequence. He draws […]

In the first of four diary blogs, Tamarin Norwood guides us through her response to Paul Scott’s ‘Three Queens’…… 1 – Before I watched the poem… — You only get one chance to encounter a poem for the first time. […]

Hmmm… Today I spent a quiet hour getting to grips with all the things I mentioned in the previous post. I drew a little diagram, as I often do, containing all the projects small, large and ridiculously ambitious, that are […]

Have just got back from London having been on a evening tour of the College of Arms – at the opposite end of the Millenium Bridge from Tate Modern. My head is now full of vellum and quill ink, strange […]

Lets talk about stuff Following on from yesterday and the quote from The Times in 1900 about how we might decide what is valuable and what is valueless – I’ve been thinking about stuff. The National Archives, local archives, businesses […]

HERE WE GO! Dear e Thank you very much for the two beautiful pristine socks I received yesterday in the post. I hope I am worthy of the task before me….. s

To frame or not to frame? AAARGH. Still mulling it over. In the meantime some diversionary activity and hopefully an opportunity to get some distance, in the form of a social for HowDo magazine tonight at Hand Made in Bradford. […]

Busy times, getting used to being back in my own studio after such a long time. It is wonderful. Despite the fact that I thought that I would be revisiting the work I was making with dolls, I am continuing […]

So tired from all of this http://lincolnartistnetwork.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/abandoned-at-exit-september-19th-2012.html zzzzzzzzzzzz!

It’s nearly that time of year again. As part of my daily painting challenge/endurance/project I change styles, like a painting chameleon, on the 24th of November each year. I am a couple of months away from the 5th year of […]

Opened in 2008, by DJ/promoter Scott Haycrazer, Eastern Listerquarn lounge reverses the Pointeso trend towards drinking and socialising; by midnight, pretty much everyone in the club is on their feet and dancing and painting with fazer glo stiques. There’s not […]

Having been completely sidetracked by socks (not for the first time I may add) – see new blog – I completely forgot to do my post last night, despite ‘big decision making’ occurring – here is what I have been […]

Amendments I have had to go back and amend things – my artistic note taking (all over the place on a page) had led me to credit a Thomas Watkin Forster sticker in the front of a book to the […]

Dear Sue Tompkins Yesterday I saw your work on the internet and in an old copy of Frieze magazine and it sparked me. For the rest of the day I saw the world through a different lense. I went for […]

More experiments in mindmaths: Protocol version 2 (or how to get jumbled up in your own equation). and Sock Patterns with A and B being completely interchangable. Verdict – need to find helpful maths geek. Verdict 2 – at least […]