My paper has changed colour, because I’m using a thicker roll. I hope this doesn’t matter or isn’t very obvious. I am not reproducing my work. It defeats the purpose, each piece is made in that piece of time you […]
Starting to put things together… My blog got picked up by a-n the other day on their facebook page.It seems that talking about reviving an art school mentality is something that is close to a lot of student’s/tutor’s hearts. A […]
I’ve been tying up loose ends in terms of work and college as I go onto maternity leave. All that is left now with the course is the final project. I’ve completed the statement of intent and I’m just waiting […]
Its been a while since I’ve posted, however thats because I’ve so focused on sorting on whats going into the final show. I’ve been working on paintings that explore visual deficit and how deficit is beautiful. Over the last month […]
Very sad news on Friday that my Auntie has died, not sure what happened yet, but it’s been a shock and clearing up/sorting a bit at her house today was strange – nice to be there and near her, but […]
I am half way through this book: Touched with Fire by Kay Redfield Jamison. She’s a manic depressive and psychologist based in the US, who clearly has an intense interest in documenting the relationship between creativity and psychosis. So far […]
Back to the Ashmolean for another life drawing session. I decided to expand the drawing this time and finish the next time. These gods are in the bottom of the atrium and I viewed them looking down from the ground […]
We had a spiky debate at the mill today about non representational painting.
Blea Water 13th April 2010 The high level of Blea Water exposes the surface to strong SW winds that drive the water into a see-saw motion. Downward draughts from High Street accentuate this rhythm and create the pulsing overflow of […]
To complete this inauguration of this blog, I just want to quickly talk about Kim Noble, whose work initially got me thinking about technology, psychology and being a ‘mentalist’ (his word, not mine). Kim is doing his performance ‘Kim Noble […]
Had a bit of a hiccup this week when, having got 3 big prints done & ready to take to the framers, I managed to leave them on the train. Luckily they turned up in Hastings so I had to […]
its sunday and i’m only just writing this about wednesday, time flies .. i’m looking forward to running a workshop tomorrow with 17 of the year 10 pupils, i’ve given them drypoint card and plastic to draw on so hopefully […]
some more recent prints…quite sucecessful prints from copper plates etched using ink from a gum arabic transfer as a resist. its taken me a year or so but i might actually be achieving predictable, interesting and pleasing results from this […]
i had a really interesting time when i attended the advanced research group for screen printing at the regional print centre with tara dean, we played with drawing on the screens with water soluble crayons and printing the drawings with […]
a few more…
Another Successful two sales on my etsy shop :) Two custom orders for pufferfish plushies for a woman in California who is going to travel the world with them as her mascot :D lol Cute! Anywayz just need to check […]
A- Foundation, Liverpool
13 – 14 February 2010
