Surface Gallery, Nottingham
10 – 14 November 2009
Another slightly out of date post, written on the 1st Dec. For the first time I was free from cleaning up a messy kitchen and had the time in my hotel room to watch the Satchi reality show. The much […]
A line drawn from paper to pencil makes a dot. It’s a dot upwards through space that begins on the paper and travels to the tip of the pencil, but because paper and pencil meet so closely, the upwards projection […]
Bleaberry tarn, Buttermere 1st December After a considerable gap we are underway again – but it’s necessary to adjust to a new situation. Health problems have beset both of us but for me it means I won’t be able to […]
Game 17: News in brief… The Bayerns no 1 player has officially left the club after a major falling out with the chairman. Details about the reasons are sketchy at the moment but it is believed that a culture of […]
Fraction opened with aplomb and the exhibition is very strong. Talking to my fellow studio artists they say that Elizabeth , my studio mate and I who are amongst the new arrivals here have been told that we have come […]
The Devil’s Coat Tails Regarding the painting of my boards I have had many suggestions from so many interested parties, including the use of arcane brushes, mixing fairy liquid with gouache, spraying, rollering and scraping. Some have found fault with […]
The Blender Finally! I have a surface to draw on. All thanks to a fan shaped brush. Yesterday I took the phantom for a guided tour of the art suppliers of Ipswich in search of the mysterious blending brush a […]
I find myself in Colchester where my companion has a meeting with Laura Early about some work. Imagine how delighted I was to find my old friends Townley and Bradby hard at work in Firstsite’s temporary artspace. They are making […]
Saturday, 5 December 2009 Lost Alas the rest of the day was filled with such ups and downs that I am quite discomforted. On the much delayed train home my companion and I found a rail card belonging to a […]
Today we found a freedom pass on the train table. It belonged to Mr R.A. Gillies of Kensington and Chelsea. In our excitement my beloved left his bag on the train. It had two executive 1970s pens in one silver […]
Otto Frank preferred the annex empty. “Everything was hauled away during the war and I prefer it stays that way.”
Okay – two weeks before the end of term for my course and then Christmas vacation. It’s time to catch up and take stock. I’ve created a schedule to make sure I post something here everyday for the next two […]
The interview: my proposal for Pietrasanta It now seems a while ago, but on the 19th October I was invited for an interview at the RBS headquarters on the Old Brompton Road. I had been told that I was to […]
I hung all my work today, and with a week left before assessment. Bizarrely, this is always my most relaxed time…while everyone around me is stressed (they must hate me!) I have time to get all those annoying bits and […]
RESEARCH The internet is a wonderful place. I am finding the most amazing imagery, as well as using things I see daily. My starting points are expanding. I have thought it might be time to leave my sketch book and […]
MICHAEL BORREMANS I have re-discovered the Belgian artist Michael Borremans. He is dealing with similar concerns and juxtapositions as me, he represents disquiet in the everyday using odd juxtapositions, scale and repetition. He is so good that I have artist […]
MARIELE NEUDECKER I went to Mariele Neudecker’s show at Room last weekend. She makes amazing landscapes – diminishing the human element, thereby directing the viewer towards the metaphysical dimension. She explores Romanticism and its elevation of nature and landscape as […]
Almost a year ago, I had a phone call from a civil servant at the Department for Communities and Local Government. He’d picked up on the work I’d done with artists and empty shops and wanted to know if it […]
The Interview part 2: Project for Pietrasanta (cont. from previous post) I then presented my proposed project: to represent an Enzyme This is an idea for a work I’ve recently had. Enzymes are proteins that are the ‘do-ers’ in all […]
Not much time in the studio but have had a very successful few days. I took part in a workshop with Emilia Telese on Wednesday and thoroughly enjoyed it. She is an absolute delight, highly professional and very knowledgeable. On […]
