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Recent drawings

All the ingredients have arrived and I’ve been nipping in and out of the Real Ale shop helping out with the brewing process. I’ve managed to set the date for The inaugral Transit of Venus Real Ale competition. 3pm Monday […]

I have been busy planning my pilgrimage recently. I have been ordering outdoor clothing and maps from the internet, as well as compiling a list of all the things that I will need. I’m hoping to leave at the end […]

Whoa! I said I’d write here everyday but this week has been a crazy time because I’ve just started a new business with a friend of mine (on Tuesday in fact) so we have been pulling major overtime ever since […]

A couple of weeks have gone by since the assessment. It went quite well and I’ve had some constructive feedback which helps set a direction for the degree show. Technical quality of my work is one aspect to focus on; […]

‘Bid Writing’ course today. Sounds dull & boring but it was the best course I’ve ever been on… and I’ve been on a few. Short, sharp & concise – ended spot on time, ticked all the boxes & a free […]

This is basically my degree show piece, still in the making but you get the jist of how it will look. These panels will have 10cm gaps between each one and will be mounted on the wall, all will eventually […]

It is a guilty few months since I last posted, and life has been busy indeed with.. …moving flat …getting stuck into my new teaching job …getting settled and making the most of my residency at Manchester School of Art […]

My practice concerns the mediation of images and the contextualisation of women, whether via broadcasting, media images and the use of blue/green screen or how women are presented in nature using ‘seductive’ pastoral imagery. My interpretation of this becomes a […]

Gosh, feels strange working with the colours I am using and developing and developing the way in which I am using the layers of image and colour. I just keep mixing and mixing the colour, diluting it to see how […]

Working on towers and blocks with beautiful dead things for the Wimbledon MA Interim show week two ‘Wunderkammer’, PV next week at the Nunnery, London. Thomas Cuckle the curator has been very helpful in his suggestions and recommendations of other […]

experiments again with drawing.. ..connecting colours between the city and rural, a birds eye view of a street in Rome.. ..the mysterious Ibis also in sepia, finding the colours with which to do this..

German biosphere and a solar boat..

In this month I have made my first 10 teapots. I found I had to keep an open mind not to try for a particular shape, I want to have only the weight of 1kg of clay as a point […]

Cranky week to happy week. How did that happen? First of all, there’s a pretty good chance I might get what I wanted all along. Now that usually makes most people happy! Monday morning chats in the cafe at Henwood […]

June will see the last printed a-n Magazine. For me this will be a particularly sad occasion as I set up the original ‘Artists Newsletter’ way back in 1980. It’s also a breath of fresh air – a chance to […]

Bit of a breakthrough today on my new GYO*BYO project and it now seems to be coming together really well. The donation of a enormous bag of coloured hosiery has cleared the way through to solve some of the materially […]

The Fear Hoping to get onto the CargoCollective http://cargocollective.com/ website for creatives… just as I was cooking up a page I realised I had only two completed projects. That ain’t good enough! What an oversight. I’m working out how to […]

Part of my interest in Modernist art comes from growing up in that context. However, a specific commitment to abstract art has followed me around, pursuing me and often annoying me! Picasso and David Hockney were prominent artists of the […]

After an intense day at work I have attempted to unwind by drawing intense lines. This is for a series of ‘maps’ I have been creating from the deep field photograph of the Hubble Telescope, intended to somehow be a […]

The degree show meeting was cancelled for today and rearranged for Wednesday, mainly because all the printing quotes for potential catalogue ideas haven’t come back yet so there wouldn’t be a lot to discuss… But it did mean I finally […]