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Back to life classes after the half term break. The “proper” model failed to turn up (again – and it’s not always the same model, either) and (again) one of the tutor’s friends stood in. These “temps” are always really […]

On the train to Manchester yesterday the lady in the adjoining seat told me about her four children, how they’d all become doctors. ‘Not enough time for meals’ was her comment on their cosmopolitan life styles. We shared her snack, […]

Never mind the earlier entry in which I decided there was no time to do any more painting; I found some time, or perhaps I did some speed painting. (I was recently introduced to the concept of speed anthropology at […]

The Cushion is thinning. I’m so grateful for my residency – so grateful. The time and space is invaluable and I know that. Last year The Cushion served me well. 1st year post BA in fine art there is a […]

Great day yesterday. Got the email saying Jon Adams and myself have been successful in getting through to the final interview stage for our proposed collaboration at the Walsall Gallery. Then spent a day at the Toynbee centre in London […]

Today I baked my fisrt loaves of bread from the culture Katy and I started together. I enjoyed the slow process: mixing the dough, leaving it overnight, adding more flour and mixing it again, then leaving it to prove for […]

How did my life ever get so complicated. Sometimes I feel so weary at having to fight so hard to get anything done on this R&D project. Geneva looks like it may bear some fruit though as a gallery is […]

Some sort of shadowy pall seems to hang over my happiness. Tomorrow I travel to Bath to converse with JJ Charlesworth. I sent him a grovelling email communicating fear and excitement, mainly fear. He in turn replied graciously telling me […]

As a sort of performative work I have been trying to grow my sideburns similar to those sported by Peter Cushing in his roles as Van Helsing. They also hark back to my father’s facial hairstyling in the seventies. Back […]