Page 2209 – a-n The Artists Information Company

The last 10 days have been saturated with input. Last week artist Neil Tait was the speaker at our Thomas Lawrence Lectures. Neil spoke about, ‘how his work comes about’, and how his many influences flow into his painting. He […]

Just fixed a date for the January challenge to happen, phew. I had thought it would happen in February but that’s not the case. This doesn’t matter too much but I dont want to get a backlog of challenges to […]

Sweet Home In a junk shop in Observatory I find a painting which proclaims “Home Sweet Home”. I purchase it and take it back to furnish my room. I am starting to feel at home here, and its got me […]

KNICKER BLOG. The postman has just brought me a lovely package from a-n, my prize for being one of the blogs of the year. Inside was a copy of Rachel Howfield’s artist’s book ‘What a Waste of a Day’ and […]

It’s reading week this week and I’ve also got time off work because it’s half term for them too, so I’ve been using my time catching up with everything. I’ve almost done all the ironing and tidying as well as […]

Mmm Indian yellow An old favourite on the watercolour pallet but a new addition to the oils, I am so enjoying its yellowy goodness. All in all I am having too much fun at the moment knocked off stride a […]

Hello I’m Tommy Mc,now in my second year ( Fine art degree ) at wirral Met. I am currently working on a large stick and ink drawing. My first idea was to portray homeless people, but i have changed the […]

This week I have been mostly engaging in diversionary tactics, to take my mind of the confusion of the church project. I did attend a quiz night at the church, we , somehow , came third, everyone else was clearly […]

Gary and Lewis will also be giving a gallery talk on Wednesday 10th March, 2-3pm. Admission free but call 01324 506850 to book a place. The exhibition runs until 18th April and we are open Monday – Saturday 10-4, and […]

We have arrived at the point to reflect, evaluate & curate! In just over one week we put up our first exhibition. This blog will document the curating process and exhibition outcomes.

i’ve overcome several days is angst ridden frozen ness ness, derived from the thought of the presentation next monday. i’ve not experienced anything quite like it, well there was a time in a hall in erfurt or somewhere in germany […]

Louise Nason artist in resident 2009. This shall be my last post for my residency. My time at St Georges is now over. I have moved out of the studio and brought my loom home. The loom is in construction. […]

What appear to be very polite computer generated responses from the Arts Council received today. Asked Brighton’s Jack Hughes to suggest some Logo designs for us. He’s good at that. Looked at space again today. Want to take some pics […]

So Northumbria Auction 10 was last night. Overall it was a good night, although it would have been better if there had been no empty seats. I had signed up to help with payment and packaging yet I still managed […]

Preparing ceramic shells for a bronze pour On Saturday morning when I was loitering in the yard looking at lots of bronzes that had just been sand blasted, one of the foundry guys beckoned me over to asked me if […]

I suppose I should have expected a period of intense frustration, but I would have preferred not to have to go through this. I am impatient to move forward. There are so many ‘starts’ and ‘almosts’ populating my studio and […]