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We had this idea to use last year’s christmas tree as the starting point for the commission for Oriel Myrddin.

Day 2 The tree is proving really time-consuming in terms of paper mache. I think it’s driving Jeanette bonkers.

Day 5 It isnt getting any easier…but it is getting done…

Day 9 Still sticking…

Day 10 All done, but now there’s a bit of a problem…how to get it out of the kitchen and down to the gallery. in the meantime where’s it going to be stored? answer…in a very kind friends garage. We’ve […]

Scanning drawings in for the project

The Sporting League: Game 5 Tranquilayers hit the top of the league for the first time since their last championship winning season in 1995 with a two – nil win over Indentine. Indentine boss: ‘I thought we had a few […]

‘PRIMITIVISM’- IN 2OTH CENTURY ART’The Museum of Modern Art. Added To My Library by Dr. Katia Samaltanou art historian/writer

I’ve just spent a bit of time reviewing whose blogs I’ve been reading here and why. The “threads” of my title seems apt. I am drawn to those who have similar thoughts, rather than those who work in similar materials […]

Really pleased Something’s happening was in Junes top 10 Artist talking blogs and was selected as a Choice blog by Tim Ridley. I like the fact that Artists talking is a space for the other stuff. The important/unimportant strands, strands […]

I submitted another application for a residency today – so fingers x’d something comes up. Am feeling less ranty and trying to be positive. Hence the photo. How can i be too miserable when that’s my view.

After writing the last post I wondered about using the notes without the wardrobe, whether the wardrobe needed to be there. I have since thought that there could be a new photo opportunity for the wardrobe on the balcony of […]

I’ve begun painting again! It’s very hot here so I work in the mornings or after 6pm when it is cooler outside. There is no place to paint indoors yet. And, I have a tentative deadline that I am working […]

In response to Rachel Marsden’s comments I’ve been looking at Carol Yinghua Lu. In her e-flux article ‘Accidental Conceptualism’ she talks of exactly the issue psychoanalYSL pick up on, namely; “Collectors, foreign and Chinese, buy Chinese artworks out of fascination […]

Visions of Excess 1927-1939 by George Bataille. Added To My Library by Dr.John Cussans -art theorist

The end, slowly stalking me at first took a running leap and knocked me square off my Black Isle residency. I saw signs, the pang of sadness when I bought milk whose expiry date surpassed my final day and the […]

Sporting League: Game 4 Athletico and Tranquilayers both maintained their one hundred percent records with wins over Red Star and Delta…Universo won by two goals to one away to champions Novia. Universo boss: ‘Yeah, we played to our strengths out […]

I said recently in a newsletter that I no longer felt isolated, thanks to all the great people I’ve connected with and who have become friends and colleagues. I’ll say once again, this connection was made possible by an and […]