Page 2189 – a-n The Artists Information Company

This is, again, a very hand-made, very personal image, produced, using digital media as well as maintaining a strong connection with the traditional. The print is part of a series; I am bringing in the notion of time by using […]

14th March 2010. Well I have had a couple of days to reflect on Fridays Seminar, and criticisms, thanks to Carolyn and Carol for your comments. I think on reflection that the criticism given was a good thing, even the […]

I’ve been working on a print making technique that I can’t seem to escape even as I move around to other ideas and explore them, it still lingers and I keep coming back to it in the studio. I think […]

The last month has been simply amazing. After 9 months of full-on computer work, all my customers wanting major development work all at once, it’s suddenly gone quiet. Enough work coming in to pay the bills, but whole days at […]

Deciding on an image for the degree show catalogue…I was going to take a still from my projection, but I think maybe I should use a different image to show a different side to my work, a more “material side” […]

Intention – Context – Symbols – Language – Understanding -Interaction – Reduction of Uncertainty – Process- Transmission – Linking – Memory – Storage – Interpretation – Response What is sent and what is received? [The works individually and together]

I’ve been working on the archive for the website again and I’d forgotten about these drawings which were rolled up and hidden away, moving does have it’s advantages. They were done between about 1999 and 2002 in mid Wales and […]

I’m exhausted, I’ve been working in my mums floristry shop today, I’d love to go to bed, I’m not even bothered about having tea. I’ve got so much to do though so I’m going to sit down with a cup […]

Preparing the spare ‘arms’ for casting A couple of weeks ago when I finally decided my first piece was ready for casting, it was then handed over to Alfredo to add the ‘collate’ (wax sprues which will become air tubes […]

Oh bugger… Just got an email from london – the artist who I found to sublet my studio to has had a change of circumstances and has given me notice… i.e. doesn’t want to sublet for April – that sets […]

Success, failure and still no crocodiles… Well there might be a crocodile, my studio has got in to such a mess there may well be one lurking under a table behind the detritus of my recent work. So I decided […]

Got some more images to share with you. I’m really chuffed at how the progress is going. Some are still giving my some trouble but on the whole i think I’m making progress. I’ve discovered if I use too big […]

These public library provide/provided Wi-Fi services and emphasize it is free and open to all except for Taipei. But all of them stress all or almost all libraries has this service. The ubiquitousness is what they want to stress. This […]

After 20 years of persistently painting I finally feel more rooted, and can hear and dialogue with other people’s views whilst a piece of work is still in progress; and also I’m finding myself increasingly open to new, surprising ways […]

Snöstjärnor This time last week I was out in a field helping children snow sculpt. It was a brilliant few days, and by the look of the weather it happened just in time! Now that it’s done it’s amazing to […]

Voe, a small rural community of around 300 people, is named for its situation at the head of the Olna Firth, one of Shetland’s longest voes. (Voes are the Shetland equivalent of Norwegian fjords.) The school takes its name from […]

TOUCH DOWN I arrived on Sunday 7th March after a gruelling 12 hour journey that started at 4am in the hubbub of Gatwick airport. The Glasgow-Shetland flight in a twin propeller plane afforded several incredible vistas when the clouds parted, […]

Fiona 22nd Feb 2010 I have started a new picture today. It is another portrait, of a friend, in oil, canvas size 80 x 110cm. I did a brief outline of prominent shapes in Fiona’s face, and then quickly started […]