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If I hadn’t been an artist…. I have been sorting through my slide collection. I have a small number of slides, beautiful glass ones as well as ones with cardboard surrounds from my grandparents collection. In early retirement they were […]

Tuesday, 18 May 2010 Where to begin? Last night my companion and I watched a strange film. “The Informant” had somehow passed me by when on general release but we liked the cover on the DVD and had seen good […]

Wednesday Apparently in his introduction to “Einstein’s Mistakes, The Human Failings of Genius” the author blames Einstein for Donald Crowhurst’s descent into madness. The blackness awaits us all, it needs only the slightest excuse. Our conveyance is swooping drunkenly around […]

Thursday Today’s itinerary involves a trip to Southend via Chelmsford. My companion and I are picking up a table purchased on eBay and then going on to finally view the Tap gallery where we are both to have solo shows […]

Buzzes My new lodgings are much the nicest place I have lived for many years. However we do suffer somewhat from the noise of passing buses. There is some sort of acoustical concatenation at work here that serves to magnify […]

Application for Hazard done Greenroom & hAb will be hosting Hazard MMX a series of intervention-based performance work across the city of Manchester on Saturday 17th July. I was interested in applying early on in the month for this but […]

I had a bit of a dip in energy levels for a while, but I feel ready to take the bull by the horns again. A conversation with steering committee member Rachel Welford helped – I was feeling weary of […]

Began adding the figures and objects to the backgorund, which I just about managed to complete last week. I need to remember to apply the things in the foreground so they blend in with the background, so they don’t look […]

In terms of artistic interpretation of this part of the journey I was thinking of paintings, while going through the Alps at the Brenner Pass. I’d never seen them close up and going through them on the train was a […]

Once I had the idea for the four lines at once, I could immediately see how Thames to Dunkirk could reference a number of other artworks by war artists. Richard Eurich’s extraordinary painting Dunkirk in the National Maritime Museum (Queen’s […]

I have a commission opportunity with Nicci Wonnacott (check out international womens art facebook group) Its run by Double Elephant Print Workshop (www.doubleelephant.org.uk) and Devon Records Office. Nicci is a performance artist, I’m primarily a printmaker. With her I did […]

I started giving tutorials at Bournville College today which was actually quite enjoyable, some of the students were genuinely enthusiastic but others really didn’t seem to care about their work, how it read or what it was engaging with. Still […]

Gurnal Dubs 16th April 2010 What was the last swim round the circumference of the circle is the penultimate of the project. A final swim – a return to Blea Tarn, the start of the swim at its centre – […]

I have made and painted 5 more Continuous Profiles of Oliver Cromwell, this time with more detain in the hair, with a wart and a darker green. I have decided to display them using cardboard postal tubes as plinths and […]

The final day of my degree. It’s not even the final day, I have less than 24 hours left. And I feel like I’m stalling. I have to polish off my sketchbooks to be assessed and I don’t feel like […]