I sent my form and pics in for the RA Summer Exhibition today – not holding out much hope – cursing myself already for wasting £50 on such folly (and my father is fuming with steam pouring out of his […]
Leg 4: Days Inn, South Mimms Services, Potters Bar to Premier Inn, Kings Langley (12.9 miles approx.) Today couldn’t have been more different than yesterday. Woke up to a dry and sunny day, which bode well for the rest of […]
Never let it be said I had a weekend off. Even during my brief sojourn in Portsmouth I was on the beat – well, kinda. I went to aspex (you must know by now how much it hurts me not […]
Had my group crit today 0.o Things I learnt: 1.) I can borrow a keyboard with an inbuilt speaker from college. 2.)Keyboards don’t like glissandos. Especially when the sustain function doesn’t work. 3.)I definitely prefer pianos to keyboards. 4.)Telling the […]
It’s interesting how being an artist differs from one to the next. In the course of Hockney’s recent remarks upon question of authenticity of the artist, the creation by the hand of the artist etc etc, regarding particular conceptual based […]
It’s been sometime.. Life has done that thing that it does on occasions and the universe has taken me by the hand and led me ‘Over here..!’ The key to all this as I am discovering has been with me […]
At the end of 2011 I went to Berlin for a month to get a grasp on what it might be like to live there as an artist. I found it a massively inspiring place. The inspiration for me didn’t […]
Collaborations can emerge from the strangest of places. A fellow guitarist who initially I knew only through guitar forums turns out to be a bonafide composer of contemporary ‘sounds’ – studied composition at Dartington where his tutorials were extraordinary: “the […]
Quite a serious looking horse with a bath..Wales..
I’m back into the swing of things now, after being a bit thrown by last week’s tutorial. To generate some new ideas I cut up a photo of one of my paintings from October, and created lots of collages, taking […]
When the bus finally made it’s way into the south of the Czech landscape the snow was about 8- 10 feet in drifts which reached up and over some very low houses and blocked roads so that only walking was […]
Occasional conundrum #1 Swiss army knife or chef’s knife? A web and app developer we were talking to the other day raised this question as to which you would use to make a great meal. We were discussing the balance […]
vintage wallpaper I’ve discovered my local charity shop sells rolls and rolls of old wallpaper. Today I decided that this will be a great medium for drawing; it’s cheap, available and some of it is vintage. Saturday I will go […]
Went to a training day with the Sophie Lancaster foundation yesterday, its strange how i knew all the details of sophies death yet hearing them again and seeing the support and love involved with the group was amazing…it feels like […]
Some photos of my little house sculptures :)
Hmm…..just can’t find the time for this. It feels like one thing too many, but I really don’t want to give it up. Lots has happened. I have been incredibly, stupidly busy but in the middle of all the admin […]
I’m feeling really positive about my work at the moment. However; we have cross year crits next week. They are an opportunity to see what is happening throughout the years and to get feedback on your work from people who […]
The inevitable has occurred. All that knowledge about ox-bow lakes will have to move out of my head to make space for everything else that’s going on. I need to wipe all extraneous files from my hard drive and find […]
IN PROCESS RESIDENCY – Day 2 This morning I placed the House/Bunker/House on the concrete blocks for the first time (carefully on some grey felt) and tried the fluorescent acrylic rods. Whilst there are no where near enough of them […]
So much to say I don’t know where to start. Last time I posted I failed to mention my meeting with Helaine Blumenfeld, which was fantastic. I had the honour of seeing her studios in Pietrasanta; she is certainly prolific […]
I had an interesting and unusual start to my morning, taking my mother to a fundraising ‘Marmalade Morning’. Coming away with two very eclectic jars (‘marmalade and black treacle’ and ‘rosy pink grapefruit and pomegranate juice’) I had a very […]
