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After the degree Show Oct 11 The Degree Show finished towards the end of June and then over the first 4 weeks I focused on entering formal competitions: New Sensations, The Jerwood Drawing Prize & Great Britons. I also made […]

After completing my oil paintings so that they are dry in time for Monday…I have FINALLY managed to get round to having a go with the modelling paste! I did a quick canvas painting using the acrylic paint, modelling paste […]

Rip it up and start again. Now I’m back at home after being back at home, and the clarity comes and goes as the fatigue goes and comes. I didn’t realise how much I needed to go until I was […]

Four days in New York.

Today I have been doing work on the dreaded ‘evaluation document’ that will be marked alongside the grad show at the end of the academic year. It is a 6000 word illustrated essay discussing our practice. I have been researching […]

It’s sunny, the rock I’m sat on is warm and I can see pretty far. It’s a view point so there are a few people milling around. The rock is just off the path and huge, wide and flat it […]

I’ve been without my sketch books for a week while they’ve been in college for assessors to look at. I missed them. It’s like losing something, but you can’t remember what. I’ve been wandering about the house tutting and sighing […]

Sponsorship money…. we’ve been given some! Yeah – crack open the bubbly !! …well, maybe not go that far, but it would be nice to at least acknowledge having a little success. Now I’m wondering if I hadn’t written the […]

It’s been a long time since I wrote this blog. This project has been in the back of mind for many many years. I accept it takes a long time to get a large scale project like this off the […]

And on with the Shadow Portraits. This evening I took a full length shadow tracing. I asked my partner to stand next to the wallpaper and whilst I was tracing, to tell me something he hadn’t told me before. Which […]

Much excitement in Zeitgeist Art world. We had word from Phoebe Unwin , British Art Show Star that she would return to do a Show&Tell in 2012 which we are thrilled about. Dates for Show and Tell are on our […]

Well, I didn’t get as much done over Christmas as I’d planned, but I did manage a few drawings. I’m intending to show some drawings in my degree show alongside my paintings, as I think they have an intricate and […]

Finished my research paper last week and folio at 2.00am this morning, with teaching prep and teaching in between, wiped out. Heater on in studio, prepare lunch and sit, listen to ‘shed shuffle’ (mixed by a cute friend) and think, […]

Happy New Year! Busy New Year, at least. Scratching 20 minutes in between work, house-purchasing and picking the kids up from school. I’ve got another video posted, this one is of the nativity play. This begins to raise difficult questions: […]

How many ways can you draw a pheasant?I found the bird whilst I was en-route to Hastings, on New Year’s Day.Picked it up a little reluctantly. Attractive bird. Attractiveness has its drawbacks.Attractiveness is seductive. But I couldn’t not accept it. […]

The past 7 days has seen the start of two residencies! One is a month in duration at The Lombard Method in Birmingham. During this residency I am exploring how you can experience a specific space from a distance; taking […]

I had my first session at uni after the Christmas break yesterday, and one of the topics discussed was being on a fine art MA, and making ourselves more ‘visible’ in the art world, through social media, networking, and helping […]

The title of this blog ‘Artist Interruptions’ provides a space for exactly that. Words, thoughts, images, encounters that interrupt the ‘day to day’ and on the whole help feed my creative practice. But life is full of interruptions. We frequently […]