Started printing the 2 x carborundum prints this week over 2 days. The ink was drying more quickly than the work I had done in early February and after thinking about it I decided it was because I was using […]
Morning! I am alive, but with some ill health, moving house and being without internet at home for 3 weeks now, I have been a bit AWOL to say the least. Sorry about that. Gonna start the blogging lightly and […]
“Before we begin – you do understand I’m recording this telephone conversation?” “Yes dear that’s fine – though you do sound a bit distant and echoing” “Sorry about that. I have it on speaker phone so I can record with […]
I also can’t let this link get away as it has made me laugh so much today. http://artstarstv.com/post/21143426887/curator-por… A blog post in which we see the amazing press pictures of Documenta’s curator – her ego perhaps getting a little large….
in approaching a blog entry, there are clear guidelines about how not to start it, somehow irreverence is in the house so i’ll start by stating that i want to write something and as always struggle to construct the opening […]
a time of moves it was it is a time of searching sense a time of influences collectings + connectings = continuings nightday x seven a step another inc-re-ment further edge along (careful now) a perhaps path a sign ghosting […]
some random sketches this time, during the time of memory of light I had a small sketch book with me and did the odd one..
Alan Buckingham, Senior Fine Arts Lecturer at the University said: “This particular group of graduates have collected together a strong selection of artists to show with them for the interim MA exhibition, in a highly ambitious decision to extend the […]
I’ve had three large paintings on the go for a little while now. The good news is that the second one is, I think, now finished. There are always details that I would like to change, but this one is […]
wood chip investigations I took the wood chip down off the wall and traced out the folds, mapping out the lines that formed an encasing around the dead de-bobbler. This photo shows the traced mapping laid over the de-bobbler. I’m […]
Beth Shapeero is currently showing at HMS and the pv was yesterday. Beth left Backlit studios to do a Masters in Glasgow last September so we were all excited to see how her work had developed. We weren’t disappointed. Whilst […]
The kids have gone back to school, and I received my first response to a recent exhibition application. Apparently there is suddenly no space on the wall for my work. However, I’m still waiting for more important news for the […]
MA students from The University of Bolton to host an International Fine Art Exhibition.
The Jewellery And Accessories programme is well established and has international standing. The strength of the course lies in; a broad interpretation of the subject; innovative use of materials; specialist teaching by world-class practitioners and a placement year. Teaching methods […]
I have just finished my Q4 accounts and sent them off to the accountant, which is a huge relief. Now I have to attack the piles of paper on my ‘relief desk’ which the cats use as bedding along with […]
This is an image of Ampelman, those of you who have been to Berlin will know that this figure appears on the traffic lights in the old east when you are to “walk”. So, as walking forms the core of […]
Only just had time to look through the Wellcome images Elena posted. There is an extrodinary photograh of a ruby tailed wasp. Its the one I got all over excited about when given a specimen to draw for my ‘Memorial’ […]
The current exhibition at the Guidhall Art Gallery Age of Elegance 1890 to 1930 includes a fine selection of works with the majority, fortunately for me, at the earlier end of the date range. I began with http://collage.cityoflondon.gov.uk/collage/app;jsessionid=2A788ECD3C53CD1B6D3EE9D880EE20B5?service=external/Item&sp=M35223%3AT%3AF%3AF&sp=9313&sp=X Miss E. […]
So, we three are still discussing our format, and would really like any readers to join in to help… So what lies below is pasted straight from our email discussion, but with a couple of private/secret bits removed… I’m sure […]
I’ve spent a couple of hours going through old emails trying to decide what to share and what not to. For me it’s interesting looking back at what we where thinking at the beginning but the more I’ve cut and […]
Julie, I love all those strands of not quite ideas… real thinking as we go along… it has given me a bit of a flash of inspiration… but if you think it’s stupid just shoot it down and we’ll move […]
JUST SOME PAST SNIPPETS: The college work will get done, but you know how it is, you go zapping about on adrenaline then when it’s all done you slump! I love the idea that this time for thinking has led […]
Lyn Aylward, 'Matriarch', Oil on canvas, 2012. Photo: Lyn Aylward.