Bear with small head. My boyf gives me dirty looks when I’m cutting up cute teddy bears… it’s OK, they’re not real! I have a stash of furry teddy bears rescued from the dump: most of my materials are second […]
… then, I blew out the candle With a beautifully circular piece of lucky timing, I got to celebrate the opening of Kindle (my solo exhibition at John Rylands Library) with a trip down electronic memory lane… I went to […]
More experiments with cyanotype exploring the formal structuring of an upright line on a portrait format. I thought that the Lock image had a certain presence and potential, so I created this piece with the working title, Passage in One […]
I’ve been sorting book pages into size orders today, keeping to one side the ones for the workshop on Saturday. I’ve been saving envelopes and cereal boxes but need more and I wish I’d saved last years Christmas cards and […]
art in 4D (or the tightrope walk of making work using painting, photography, drawing and sculpture)
In her final year at University College Falmouth, Suzy Waldron tells us about perspective in her work and balancing visual-practice with her written dissertation.
We went out to Gunes Terkol’s opening at the organhaus Gallery last night. Before, we dashed into our local little restaurant for a quick bite. Pablo seems to have shifted into comfort mode here – off to see the people […]
Reasons Vs. Excuses Yesterday I completed a painting I’d promised to do for my Dad for Christmas. He wanted me to paint from a photograph of his house in Cyprus. Well, actually he wanted me to paint from two, to […]
We went to a hotpot restaurant down a back lane. She told matt about it – the hotpot is chongqing’s dish and its proudness – its like a fondue burning in the middle of the table – a big soup […]
A bit more about me and my work. I’m two months into my MA at Chelsea and all too aware of how quickly this one year is going. Before this I had been on their PGDiploma course which started in […]
Invigilating at Arena today, three visitors so far! Pam has just said I can stay in my studio space until the next artist moves in, yay, a few more weeks of working there will be great. I’ve been using my […]
Hmmm…. self-absorbed self-indulgent self-obsessed selfish? Recently these terms have been used about me. Occasionally by me, and also by other people. Also “a bit driven”… Yes. I am. But I would qualify this by saying I am absorbed by my […]
Today I made my way incognito to the West End to do some shopping. Some gifts are from places incompatible with MeThenNow. One department store used to be a more pleasurable experience but from the threshold onward I found the […]
My experience of being an artist has felt very different since losing my studio. Keeping It Together this past week has been all about coming to terms with some of the uncomfortable feelings associated with not always getting what you […]
