Page 2296 – a-n The Artists Information Company

My name is Vanessa and I am a bum. Well, not really but i feel like it at the moment. I finished m degree in Fine Art and Spanish at Chester Uni in June and since then things don’t really […]

Had what CSM calls an academic tutorial the other day. It was very useful and made me think quite hard. My tutor was quite positive about the stain drawings and the plates though I have to think bigger.

Noise – that’s what my husband would call it – as if we haven’t got enough of the bloomin’ stuff in this household. Noise is what I have unwittingly created. As you might have noticed an email came through from […]

A lock of Elvis Presley’s hair has been sold to a mystery buyer for $15,000 (£9,200) at an auction in Chicago. The clump is believed to have been cut from The King’s head when he joined the US army in […]

Fantastic chat with Vikki from Northampton Uni yesterday. I’ve definately got to the point where I need a sounding block, but actually vocalising coherently and not as a babble is hard at the mo. I have so many ideas and […]

Just as I finished my second, less tense square I was whisked away from one knitting circle to tea and cake with another. A machine knitting group that had been meeting for twenty five years. None of them hand knitted, […]

Louise Nason Artist in residence. Well we had a fantastic turn out for the Big Draw. Over eighty people came to St George’s church on the Saturday. It was a lovely day so it mean that we could make use […]

today my blog is a place to out pour, before continuing with developing an idea for a proposal. it’s a place for rational collaborative discussion with myself, getting the thoughts into the visual domain. and a place to throw words […]

I’ve finally received some belated bursary funding for the LAN!!! My bank account no longer looks like a black hole where all money disappears forever! I seem to have loads of events to attend all at once at the mo […]

As the neighbour of Dennis Severs for 20 years, I had the unique experience of the “collection of atmospheres” which he created in his Spitalfields house. We bought our 1724 houses, both derelict, in the same year, yet where the […]

Queen’s coat bought in jumble sale for £10A woman, Gaynor Andrews, has discovered her favourite second-hand coat, bought for £10 from a jumble sale nearly fifty years ago, was previously worn by The Queen. Gaynor Andrews with her mother Margaret […]

Coming out of the loo in the Rose & Crown on Lower Slone Street I felt a tug and thought I must have hair caught on a chair. I turned round and saw a Chelsea pensioner holding my hair in […]

Two lines of thought today. 1. I am very grateful for all the mothering I receive from my own mum and my mum-in law. They don’t bat an eyelid, just keep offering their support in the best way they can. […]

It’s been quiet in college this week because most of the students have gone a trip to London. I would have loved to go but I had to work and paint penguins. The good thing about hardly any students being […]

Much better day away from the grey. My commissions are now flowing freely and two out of the three have been given the thumbs up, so I am alot less anxious overall. Tomorrow I will be driving up to Long […]

Cunard’s Queen Mary was built and fitted with an Art Deco style that was part country house post foxhunt, part nightclub pre-drinks. Compagnie Generale Transatlantique’s Normandie was an opulent, glittering hareem. War broke out as the Queen Mary was carrying […]

It’s late Thursday night, another week has whizzed by. It’s been a good one though. I haven’t quite achieved everything on my schedule, but there’s progress – I actually have a schedule! I have been good, keeping my diary/sketchbook up-to-date […]

The only remaining piece of the Berlin wall still standing, which is known as East Side Gallery has recently been re-painted by a selected group of international artists. I saw the old version last year with all the layers of […]

News in brief… Novia suffered their 2nd defeat of the season to a full strength Chamber Athlete. Chamber, who were one of the favourites at the start of the season have found the kind of form that the bookies originally […]