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As part of Brighton Festival we are having an open studio at Apec over two weekends, 15-16th and 22-23rd of May from 12.00-5.00 pm. I am hoping that there will be interested visitors who will come and discuss the development […]

Sunday, 9 May 2010 Launch. day one Last night I dreamt of my companion but as she might have been years ago. It was a time before I knew her, she was living in the sort of bedsit squalor that […]

Heard from a magazine in China this morning that my copy of their May issue is on the way: http://www.youthvision.cn/ They have featured me on their discovery page, with Inhabitant. Not sure what it will be like exactly, but looking […]

This week I are mostly bin… trying to get workman to come back and finish the jobs they started. I are also bin… cutting up old paintings to make into cards for the open studio. Some of the resulting pieces […]

I have sent out a batch of Drawing Papers this morning, another one tomorrow or Wednesday when I find more envelopes (there must be hundreds in the house somewhere…). I reached my limit yesterday for sending out, so if you […]

Our book ” The Children of Craig-y-nos” has had a number of favourable reviews in the academic press. This is an extract from one written by the Medical Officer for Health for Wales for the Journal of Public Health:http://jpubhealth.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/pdf_extract/fdq011v1

Lets face facts; I am and probably never will be that prolific! In regards to writing my blog, I have found that making work has for me been that bit more important! So time for an update that will probably […]

BACK AGAIN It’s great to be back. I have arrived to a riot of yellow everywhere. Daffodils carpet the countryside in the wildest, most beautifully rustic way, sprouting along every verge, uninhibited. I have settled in Voe in the old […]

LAMBING It’s lambing season. Everyone is very preoccupied with the lambing, visiting their flocks four, five times a day to check all the new arrivals and assist any ewes in distress. I went back to Nesting, where I was staying […]

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 […]