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Only one day till the artists arrive. I’m trying to finish a short essay for the publication in oppressive heat. It’s impossible to concentrate. I have to play a careful game in the way in which I word things. When […]

The question of space to exhibit our work seems to have reared its head again over the last few days. I’ve just read over Carol Ramsey’s blog about her residency at the Butterfly Park in New Ferry and was horrified […]

We are exhausted. Although case management conferences are designed to sort out the management of the case, you never know what to expect. We always request a transcript so that we can go through the jargon at our leisure. This […]

I’ve orgainsed a one-off bus tour of Poole’s working landscape. This is part of the Our Working Lives oral history project that has explored people’s working lives in the 40s and 50s. Managed to hire a 1959 Routemaster bus to […]

Just a quick addition to the last post. What interested me is that the rather random comments by the twins were nearly all based on projects done at school ie. colours on top of colours, shapes on top of shapes, […]

No moths…! I have put a call out for moths. Wrong time of year I guess. So – I have 10 of the 40 I need and three weeks to go….now what? Draw the same one again and again I […]

Its been almost a month since my opening at the Towner Gallery. The show has been very popular. The visitors are very interested and intrigued by the work. Because there has been lots of interest in the work, together with […]

Sporting League: Game 19 Bayerns and Universo Collunteen cancelled one another out in the chess like nil – nil draw. Sporting Radio pundit X: ‘Well, I kept expecting to see one of those players out there to hit the back […]

Skyping with artist in Chongqing last night: [01:40:45] Helen Jiang: Helen, It’s late, u r still working? [01:42:00] Helen Kaplinsky: Yeah. Uk is 7 hours behind China so I just wait to talk to the artists on skype now. You/ […]

The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro. Added To My Library by Dominic Mifsud photographer

Main room in residency project now basically complete. Walls painted, new bed, sofa, table, flooring. Now onto the bathroom…

My mind is all over the place. I’m thinking about packing – it’s hard to think of one’s life in cubic meters as I have had to do to book a moving firm. It’s also interesting to realise that I […]

Salisbury is waking up. Albeit very slowly, there are signs that it is rising from slumber. With its wealth of Constables drawing in visitors from far and wide this summer at the Salisbury Museum, the Arts Centre is kicking it’s […]

Some changes made to the website, probably a few more tweaks to do… www.elenathomas.co.uk Let me know if I’ve made any spelling mistakes!

Sporting League: Game 18 Tranquilayers dropped down to third position after Yop lane matched them for strength in every area of the pitch…Champions Novia managed to find a bit of form against Metronova in spite of the Green Tree demonstratorsafter […]

Think I’ve managed to wangle my way out of running a ‘food related’ workshop at next week’s fun day at LTD. The theme of the event is ‘Healthy eating and Fitness’ – a topic that Roy, the Centre’s director has […]