DIGGING POLYSTYRENE Following the frustration about the polystyrene forms refusing to leave the fibre- glass moulds, I sought advice from various quarters about the best way to get them out. The most popular suggestion was to use petrol to dissolve […]
FIRST WORKSHOP APRIL 26th All the school and community workshops programmed for the next few weeks are “family” workshops, therefore parents and relatives have been invited to attend with their children. The first workshop was with the peerie class (peerie […]
SECOND WORKSHOP 3RD MAY Today was good and very busy! I worked with the peerie class (primary 1-3) in the morning and the big class (primary 4-7) in the afternoon. A few parents came to help out, as well as […]
“FAMILY WORKSHOP” 5th MAY Today was great. Seven parents turned up, with several small children/babies in tow, and it was lovely to see families sitting and working creatively together. By now, many of the participants have got into the swing […]
WORKSHOP 6TH MAY It feels like we are moving on now; things are coming together. It no longer feels like a mountain still has to be climbed. One mosaic is finished; a second is looking good, getting there, a third […]
MUCKLE ROE In eleven days I have managed to have two half days off, and I went for a fabulous walk to the Hams at Muckle Roe. The hams is a stretch of coastline in the western part of Northern […]
My students would often describe themselves as ‘passionate’ about making art. For some of them this had a ring of truth, and of course there are many ways of defining the term. I’m reflecting on today’s long, tiring and not […]
Today someone told me: “There are no problems, only solutions,” That is what I’m going to use for these next two weeks. I’ve found many problems today, but I refuse to left them drag me down.
We have a case management conference meeting with a circuit judge for an hour in July. Apparently this is unusual as 1/4 an hour with a lower ranking judge is the norm. People keep asking me if I don’t feel […]
PROGRESS Everything is moving on and making progress. Two more paintings are ready for collection from the framer. I call them paintings in the loosest sense of the word. They are actually Letraset “drawings” on painted board. As with the […]
After the challenges of learning the beginnings of CAD, at the end of last week I was back in my comfort zone taking photographs. This time of the inside of the building focusing on a number of spaces which are […]
Today was the last working day of the academic year, I’m fully set up for assessement which will be taking place over the next few days and then its time to really get involved with reading for my dissertation, it […]
116 days. I looked up this figure today and found it at once exciting, vaguely terrifying, and a comfortingly large number. However I’m very much aware time tends to fly where deadlines are involved The Project. Developed as a result […]
Partner still very unwell, coming up to day 14. She’s been sleeping 20 hours a day, and though she reckons she’s not getting any better, I’m sure I can detect a slight shift in mood. Still no feedback from GP, […]
The studios have been cleared out and the building of spaces and the decorating has begun. Leaving little time to work on the actual art thats going to be shown. I’ve been working for a number of weeks with the […]
I’m having some trouble finalising my piece. There are five pieces to the work and I’m missing one piece. No matter how many tries I have nothing seems right. Hopefully I can find a solution if I put my mind […]
This is a development of my piece ‘Oliver Cromwell Xmas tree’ I have been trying to find ways to display the piece so that it was not just placed on a plinth and had a platform that would become part […]
It suddenly feels like everyone is waking up.. there are lots of exciting things afoot in Liverpool and the weather is nice enough and it is light enough to want to leave the house. Last night there was the pre-launch […]
Knowledge – Acquisition – Escapism I will work backwards – escape to acquire knowledge Escapism – this is perhaps a visual thing and sometimes I find reading to be so terribly visual that I find it distracting and have to […]
Alice In Disneyland was exhibited for four days at Lincoln Central Library, for a much bigger exhibition, and I noticed that Lincoln Castle are having a Mad Hatter’s Tea Party next weekend, so I asked if we could exhibit our […]
Got some photos done of recently finished work. This painting was begun years ago, and has been almost ‘to hell and back’. There are so many versions buried in the paint! If you look at the image sideways, you might […]