Page 2042 – a-n The Artists Information Company

My friend, fellow artist and a-n blogger Emily Speed, sent me this link over the weekend – some words by Agnes Martin on disappointment & the process of working as an artist. Martin has long been one of my favourite […]

After being in a photographic studio over the weekend watching “Sit Gena Rowlands” being expertly photographed by Donna Kempson (thanks Donna!), it struck me that one of the best things about being an artist is having imagination, which makes it […]

Happy New Year! Summer is over. The kids have all gone back to school and it always feels like resolutions should be made. So I’m giving up beer in favour of smoking, (better for the liver). Text from Natalie on […]

Lately there are always birds outside my window. Fitfully watching these birds as I approached a writing deadline last month I was continually distracted by the thought that they looked a good deal better equipped for writing than me. The […]

Disposal After a light breakfast of toast, one slice with peanut butter one with butter, and a cup of Darjeeling tea. I settled down to read the morning paper. The most note worthy headline being “ELO Cellist Killed by Bale […]

My eldest son started school last Thursday so I have a lot more time on my hands. I have managed to contact a local framer who has said he will look at remaking the frames that have fallen to bits […]

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THIS?/GET LOST A stressful indefinable boundary between social opportunity for discussion and private place for intellectual process. The Studio space-in whatever form it manifests itself-can be a source of rising blood pressure.

Sometimes when I am really supposed to be doing something else I end up reading newspaper articles that catch my eye. Today I read “A healthy dose of sick lit” on the Guardian Unlimited Books blog (http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2010/sep…). Like the author […]

Back to work after a great summer break. I’ll soon to be starting Level 6, in my fourth year. The main focus of the next few months will be my dissertation, my proposal has been approved and I am now […]

I have turned my mind to a search for a suitable nerve agent for my project. This is the area that I think will be most difficult to price for my grant application. Making too detailed inquiries early on in […]

Mini meltdown eventé My anxiety has been simmering away all week and finally came to the surface on Sunday evening after a diversion on my way to work, someone being short with me, finally getting home to find out that […]

I’m not very good at waiting. Patience isn’t one of my strong points. I’ve got irons in the fire and waiting on others to get back to me. I hate that feeling. It’s unsettling, with decisions pending and you have […]

Wow, I’ve had some really interesting questions as a result of this blog. When it comes to titling, if I title, I tend to do it after the work is finished, trying to find in the title something that relates […]