The opening is tommorrow! It looks great and we’re both really excited to see the reaction! We had the Falkirk Herald in today for interviews too so look out for that. Photos of the install and of the opening very […]
19th Feb Jill rings me throughout the day. She is outside the building and talking to fire fighters and police and gleaning information. It’s thought to be arson. This emerges during the day as a window is found removed from […]
20th February I drive into Kendal and park up away from the blocked off area. Walking towards the studios along Highgate – it’s deserted – the high crane brought in from Barrow in Furness dominates the sky line. By now […]
Monday 22nd February Its been a manic weekend. Phone calls, emails have kept coming in. A press release has been written and put out to the media. We wanted people to know how the studio group has been affected because […]
27th February Its over a week since the fire. Life has been so busy as this emergency demanded space in what was already a busy time. We have held a Green Door network meeting to update people, seek their support […]
Mobile art I have been so busy with Forth Valley Open Studios that I have had little time to promote my exhibition. Fortunately the Press Officer, Frank Sullivan, for Stirling University Innovation Park produced an excellent press release which generated […]
Something very strange has happened… My younger sister gave me a great book for Christmas: “At work in Paris – Raymond Mason on Art and Artists”. I started reading it when I got here on the 1st Feb. As I […]
As four individuals with an underlying connection of having sustainable working practices and methodologies, this small collective will work with each other’s strengths and weakness in realising new work which may take the individual out of their comfort zone. Through […]
I’m meeting up with Alison on Tuesday to go through some health and saftey issues and to show her some samples of my work. Hopefully I’ll have a better idea of how much work I can show and what will […]
I am now in Halifax, I gave the talk, which was a very rewarding experience, and the installation at the Anna Leonowens Gallery is up and I am pleased with it. Even better, it has extended my creative process, as […]
Well, I have managed to turn my husband into Sigmund Freud, with the hair line. It is a bit square, which is all wrong. Also I need to work on the shadows, tones of the skin, the nose look s […]
I am working in oils; the canvas is 80 x110 cm. The shot was taken of him going down the stairs, and pausing on the stairs to the front door in my home. The difficulties I have found so far […]
Feeling very chuffed. Got very encouraging feedback on my draft research paper. Maybe I can pull it together by May and submit this year. Then I can just concentrate on my practice when I return to college next year.
here’s a couple of prints I’ve been playing with this evening. Its one movement of my youngest boy. I wanted orange and yellow to suggest the heat and vibrancy of their lives. Unexpectedly the image looks like a boy soldier […]
This blog follows the reaction to a fire in the building where Green Door Studios was located. The building on Highgate in Kendal, Cumbria had been the studio premises for the artists’ collective since it was established in 1995.
Nottingham Art Exchange, Nottingham
16 January – 10 April 2010
