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KINETICA Art Fair is over. I’ve collected my work and now have to reflect on the whole amazing experience. What a fabulous week. I expected to have a very boring time sitting by my work for 10 hours a day […]

I went to a meeting about Arts Council funding on Thursday last week. It was organised by Wolverhampton Contemporary Arts network or something. I saw the ad on the Turning Point West Midlands site. It was okay actually, no one […]

Had a great meeting yesterday with Daniel and Wei from the school of comouting and engineering at UCLAN. They are up for helping with the projecy and we discussed a varuety of ways the space could be made interactive. The […]

Moving closer to making some beer. the guys at The Real Ale Shop who run Arkwrights brewery have sourced some yeast that will allow us to brew our 7.1% IPA. “It’s a Belgium yeast will got upto 7.5% quite easilyand […]

Just thought I’d show you one of the paintings that I am working on at the moment… My latest finished painting took me about 2 years to complete as I tend to work on around five or more at a […]

Hello :) Tra la laa… Its a bit scary thinking about the degree show… I have a master plan that involves playing the piano live in front of a random audience and also having a stop motion film going on […]

PARMA VIOLETS II One of a pair….Not sure about this yet, it seems an unhappy picture, sparse and sickly, with things too close to the edge. But I think it’s done. Must fix it so no more of the wallpaper […]

I’ve just sent an email to CAMRA ( the campaign ro real Ale) to enquire about ways they can help promote the collaborative project with Arkwrights brewery. Also to get their feedback about the project and test the water regarding […]

Tomorrow we will be there….. though my case is still sprawled on the living room floor waiting to be put into some sort of order – yet again. We have a lot more artwork than what we took to Norway […]

Application Process: Advert J.A.Crabtree & Co. Ltd., was at one time Walsall’s largest engineering company, the Factory was founded in 1919 by John Ashworth Crabtree at what is now Lyndon House Hotel. In its heyday in the mid-twentieth century the […]

I’ve been speaking to a guy in the USA – Chuck Bueter who is producing a real ale for the TOV as well, He collaboarted with a brewery for the tRansit in 2004 and is also making a wine and […]

This week I’ve been working on the artist talk I’m giving at MAO on Sunday. Each time I set about preparing some kind of talk or presentation about my work I assume it won’t take long to put together – […]

Argh! I have so much to write about yet no time. Deadlines are steaming past me like herds of wildebeest intent on catching the last train home. Or something. Sheffield is alight with events of peaceful protest against the cuts […]

Recently I’ve been thinking about how I can expand my drawings outwards- either out onto the walls or out into the viewer’s space. This week I’ve been experimenting with the idea of relief drawings/collages made with layers of tracing paper […]

well….I’ve become an Student Ambassador for a-n…..thought I could spread the word to fellow students and let them see for themselves how it can really help both as a student and as a profesional artist…… ….the lecturers have decided it’s […]