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With a massive weather low and inclement weather all-over-the-shop…I’m going into my studio in 5 minutes to paint. We’re restoring a neglected garden tomorrow and the weather will not have improved…but hey…I’m living now for the moment… www.artswain.com www.eartharchitecture.co.uk

October Sticks. The colours in the woods are marvellous. And it makes you feel that whatever you do is just lightweight in comparison. So: off to by some chicken wire? compose an expression of interest. pay check in bank juggle […]

The theme of my recent work, is travel. It seemed obvious to me therefore that to fully grasp the essence of any journey, then the work simply has to travel. Sticking with the format of wings, which I hope in […]

While working of a series of water colour paintings I plan on calling ‘As if one wasn’t enough…. As if death needed a double’ (this title comes from the second half of a tag line for the western ‘For a […]

60km north of Rome in the region of what was known as the ‘Great Etruscan Plain’. There are still many interesting sites and relics of this civilisation.

Ah a-n blog, how I have missed you. :) It’s been a while, where does time go? Yet again I have been busy but I will be blogging again far more regularly now that things have started to calm down. […]

Three weeks back and how’s it going? well, I think. Already the year feels very different to the last one and I can’t tell if it’s me or them that’s different, probably both I guess. After a rather brisk start […]

New yet nothing new. I was going to start a new blog, new project new line of thought , then it all spiralled back again and I am still thinking about how to make my crocodile . The shell work […]

I made a decision on the challenge for October it is: ‘Break a bad law that creates space for a better world.’ Challenged by James aka The Vacuum Cleaner Although I have many views and opinions on politics and morals, […]

Today I continued working on my painting of ‘vintage rubber doll with attitude’ as baby Jesus. So far its going ok, but I’ve been putting off the challenging parts such as the head and the background, which I know is […]

Wolstenholme Creative Space is a beautiful old wreck of a building that does indeed have fally down bits to it. They sent out a call for submissions earlier on this year for an exhibition called ‘With these walls we are […]

Having completed all the walks the next task is to tranfer them all to tracing paper so that templates can be cut and the map re-made on – or rather with – canvas. Taking the GPS plan, I divided it […]

Yesterday I walked along Newcastle Beach and discovered, as I’d seen before, dozens of dead birds washed up on the sand. The shape in which the sea had left them was, in many cases, beautiful and so I began to […]

Some “straight” shots of the ongoing Gimme Shelter structures.

To keep us on our toes our tutors have given us a corridor to curate a show of work in progress. As my work includes a video projection of studio experiments in building shelters against the clock, I have taken […]

The echoes we hear and the echoes we make. So lovely to end a fortnight of madness and find some time to write this blog again. It’s been a very busy time: taking down one show; sorting out two others; […]

Aeroplane trails and wind turbines early in the morning, Germany.

It is so hard to judge how long things will take. And I get so absorbed by what I am doing when I am in the studio, i don’t keep track of the time. So I am always underestimating and […]

More of a random thing than a place, horse in the new forest.