The last day or two have been spent doing mostly the same as the previous days: forcing a Chinese text into my head. I have had help from my translator Sophie who has also been adjusting the text so that […]
neither child safe or safe from children and probably thats how my studio & practice will stay for now….. Ive already made myself laugh with a funny typo in a residency application that i just caught before emailing it off […]
REFELECTIONS SO FAR… I have been trying several things on my pursuit of happiness. So far there have been a few disasters, which have just caused me stress. And some successes, swimming has set a whole course of ideas and […]
What is the purpose of art? I came across this quote in my studio yesterday from art critic Suzi Gablik: ” In the past we have made much of the idea of art as a mirror ( reflecting the times); […]
The last day in Tromso was a lazy sort of wind down day…well, the morning and afternoon were anyway! Spent the morning visiting Blast : http://blaast.no/ a glass design company, at which three women were demonstrating the art of glass […]
Still not well so no more work done but Butterfly Bunting for the van arrived today, thought I’d post a cheerful pic.
I’d prepared a PowerPoint presentation before I left the UK, but it was mainly about the Tate (as requested) and how the group started up etc. I wasn’t really expecting to talk too much about the work I had brought […]
It’s funny how you have to enter a particular frame of mind to be able to paint… for me, the process starts with detailed drawings based on zooms of nature; doing nothing also figures quite highly too, well, physically doing […]
The opening of my exhibition New Industrial Space at Norwich Arts Centre (open until 26th March) allowed me to explore the showing of film as part of an artist talk. I showed Chasing the Blues (1947) from the British Documentary […]
Had a lot of good conversations over the last few days. Yesterday we were preparing for group presentations in response to three seminars we’ve had. Afterwards I spent some time chatting with the members of the group about art, education, […]
Need to get my comissions out of the way so I can really focus on my work. Really getting in to developing my ideas now.
The idea of this blog is to document a conversation. A conversation between two brothers. Between someone preparing for a huge physical task and someone documenting it. Between an artist and a scientist. Following a conversation on holiday, Pete (older […]
Follows Rob Jones, a York based artist in the run up to his degree show to be held at Bar Lane Studios, York. Preview night May 27th 6pm. All art will be given away to suitably gushing visitors to the […]
I wasted that £1.99, as my camera lead has now reappeared. At least I have a spare one now for the inevitable time when I lose the orginal again. Here’s a mock up of the domes I’ve been working on. […]
I was too busy last week to write anything here, we were getting everything ready to be taken over to France for the first week of installing the garden. This has involved many things from getting vans fixed, buying plants […]
The interim show has come to an end. It will be a while before I have to make an epic trip from one end of London to another at rush hour for a while. It turned out that both the […]
Oh dear! Again, such a long time between posts. I’ve been busy since the New Year with a number of things, two of them significant: – Developing, proposing and planning my first-ever community-engagement project as “lead artist”. It’s an idea […]
More, more, more, searching and looking and painting today. It’s March Break and there is little to do up here otherwise for me. It is a good place for that. Painting, reading, walking. Where is the joy? I ask, because […]
A breakthrough! I seized the day and did the job I have been putting off for weeks – many pencils sharpened later – shoes shined, washing up done – it was still there. But procrastination has been conquered! I’m sure […]