Page 2128 – a-n The Artists Information Company

A selection of stories written by the children, which I collected during a previous residency are being published as the June edition of A3 Hand Drawn and Quartered, the monthly poster style publication that I produce. The South London Gallery […]

Here is a picture of the Stanley Spencer with the paint trolley that he used to wheel his painting equipment in and around Cookham. And Ladies and Gentlemen . . . here is a picture of my paint trolley that […]

I’m now recovering from four days of guests as part of a local open studio event. It’s good from time-to-time to be able to chat to people interested in what I do, openings rarely give you that opportunity. The weather […]

Some interesting imagery regarding ‘Fire’ presented itself on spending a couple of days in Munich on the way down to Italy, it was a public holiday and there were small fires being lit outside to represent a (traditionally pagan) celebration […]

Launch 6

One of the main things that drives me crazy in Britain – well to be precise one of the things that drives me mad in London art environment – is the emotional disengagement and the lack of reaction. My attempt […]

Sunday’s photo shoot not as productive as I’d hoped, the Super 8 stock was more suited to gloomy conditions rather than the sunny day we had (decided not to risk it, too expensive) and the prom had far too many […]

Michelle ran a ‘hard back book’ workshop today. I took the class last year but because it was earlier in the year and I still had the degree to finish I didn’t put what I’d learnt into practice until the […]

Took some new (slightly better) photographs of my artist books…see more on my website… Starting to put the pieces together, tick the boxes, sort out the portfolio and say everything I want to say in my journal…Iv’e got two weeks […]

Well, the lemon yellow went on and half an hour later was washed off with turps and re- glazed with a mixed rose pink. This now reverberates on top of the orange made from layers of yellow and pink. I […]

Friday, 14 May 2010 Launch 6 My companion is returned from Paris much scarred by her experience. She spent most of the day in bed refusing to be stirred. For my part I am even now still suffering with an […]

Flies Eight small flies have taken up residence in my bedroom. They doodle lazy triangles above my bed and then quite suddenly explode into frenzied dogfights which end as quickly as they start. They rest in pairs, two to a […]

Sunday, 16 May 2010 The Gimp Yesterday, made up in my sailor suit and wig, a sort of grey mist overcame me as I assumed the persona of The Gimp. Admittedly this was partly because I had decided not to […]

I have had a very busy, mixed, few months. Since the beginning of January I have been working almost exclusively on a single piece of work. I took a few weeks out to concentrate on something else, but in essence […]

I had a wonderful day of gallery-hopping in London with a painter friend on Saturday. We went to a lot of shows; the ones that resonated most with me were Phyllida Barlow at the Serpentine, Angela de la Cruz at […]

The Garden of Dreams The New Boy. As I have explained the Transition Group can not join in the mainstream classroom lessons and we have a new boy from Eastern Europe with us, he has no English whatsoever. My memory […]

Finnisage at the Palace Hotel I had 8 hours to make something at the FabLab, which offered the facilities to create a piece of work that involved using digital technology. I used a capital letter ‘I’ from the font ‘giddyup’, […]

The nine days from May 26th to June 3rd see the 70th anniversary of a legendary wartime event, the evacuation of more than 300,000 British and French troops who had retreated to the beaches at Dunkirk and were under heavy […]

One thing I’m finding difficult is the very different agendas that the teachers have to myself. I tend to see projects like this as all accomplishing (I aim for them to be cross curriculum and involve life both in and […]