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Come rain or shine or more rain, no day is too cold or too wet to hang the washing out. As I faff with coffee and the studio keys, quietly getting re-washed in the showers will be a nice seventies […]

I can hardly believe that it is Easter already. the time has just whizzed past and it is not very long at all until our graduate show. I am ruefully remembering some of the previous year’s third year students telling […]

Its taken longer than I’d thought, but I’m nearly finished… I’ve nearly finished my clay piece, probably just this afternoon and I’ll have finished sculpting it in clay. I’m hoping the mould maker Lorenzo will come by this afternoon so […]

Too much going on. Why am I even writing this? Saturday, Oxford Improvisers put on a show as part of Abingdon Arts Festival. This had been arranged a while back, and I’d missed out on the original call for acts […]

VERY HELPFUL TUTORIAL I had a tutorial with Anne-marie Cramer on friday where I specifically asked if we could discuss what i could write for my research paper, of which the first draft had to be in by wed in […]

Very nearly finished…(continued from previous post) I worked well yesterday afternoon and this morning, and in particular on the wing like side of the piece. I ended up sculpting the striations almost individually, as there were such complex curves and […]

I am now at the stage of having administration work to deal with, proving that the project really exists. “Without paperwork, there is no reality. Discuss.” At the workshop last week, we were excited and beguiled by the wealth of […]

“A system became necessary: how else could I in a concentrated way find something of interest which lends itself to continuation?” Hanne Darboven

A question many college graduates from such a nebulous subject as Art are repeatedly asked and ask themselves: What are you going to do with yourself, now that you’ve finished Art School?! My personal response to that question was: Rest! […]

Cleaned out the studio today – always a good feeling (and a good way to put off work – yet again.) Started the soundtrack to another film but the images to lead into it are giving me some trouble. I […]

It wasn’t my idea for the cat’s name, but indeed it was ‘Saucepan’, our studenty cat from Stoke On Trent. Psycho cat. The cat is very blurry in the original photo but the fruit bowl came out nice! Ironic that […]

But what Art have I done in the meantime? Well, I TRIED to develop work I had made, or planned to make, in college, pre-graduation. I made a couple of tentative pieces from home in between childcare duties. I attempted […]

I feel like I should own up a bit today. I had a lovely comment from Rosalind Davis on my blog yesterday, which I really appreciated. BUT! I wanted to say that although I have very strong opinions on some […]

From the shed in Corporation street. Not a huge amount to say about a window box on the shed. The shed itself was painted black and white. I don’t know if my parents were after some sort of mock Tudor […]

By using a range of images, ranging from those which do not move, those which appear not to be moving except for a change in light behing the piercing, and thoes which move quite obviously, will engage the viewer as […]

One of the disadvantages of HMS is we are located outside the city centre and it requires more effort to tavel to events. However, people do … and yesterday artists from Deryshire, Notts and Leicester came to a talk about […]

Call Since a brief but debilitating illness I have been trying to catch up with my work for Whitstable. I have decided to title it Call though I did consider Caul, I have never been good with titles. It will […]

Feeling fairly rotten today. Have been keeping a cold thing at bay for a while, but I think I am about to sucumb. I might just stay home today and keep warm! Last week was great – really busy and […]

Manchester Art Gallery’s ‘Angels of Anarchy: Women Artists and Surrealism’ (2009) was a fascinating show. I’ve just been looking again at the catalogue this morning. I’d seen very few of the pieces before, except in books, so it was really […]

I missed my blog time last week, things got a little hectic at Uni and my car broke down twice once the Friday before last and Monday last week! It seems to be fixed now although I am a little […]

Worked as many hours as I can in the studio last week to print photopolymer plates on new Somerset (white and newsprint) paper. Have been reading Crown Point Press book on etching and tried slightly different ink/wipe method. Here are […]

Last week we had a “workshop” at the Clinical Education Centre to discuss the Project. An interesting mixture of people assembled: psychiatrists, a musician, historians from various disciplines, a librarian, haematologist (and one ex-haematologist). As usual, the medics did most […]

Following our recent exhibition meeting we are pleased to announce a name… yes. a name!… The Crowndale Mice. Based on our friendly studio mouse and the location of our college! : ) It’s great… everything just falls in to place […]