Seathwaite, Wednesday 15th July – passing clouds as we walked up from the Duddon valley. The water was enclosed by a high circle of hills and we walked on to where an island lay not far off the shore. No […]
Stony Tarn Thursday, 23rd July – parked at the Woolpack Inn, Eskdale, and took path up to Eel tarn along jumping brooks and through high furns. The wonderful atmosphere of this area began to assert itself as we approached Eel […]
Dear interested readers, Here is another post for our exhibition which is getting closer now! I am pleased to say that the Council’s Artsfest team have included our details in the publicity and website. For those interested in looking at […]
Touching the Core of it all Finding oneself as an artist, getting ones artworks “out there”, and the vital networking with other artists all need to happen in tandem. How can one balance these demands? Contrary to expectations forming the […]
Got really bogged down today. Did a couple of monoprints and an etching. Enjoyed hand burnishing the monoprints, helped me to get closer to the image and it has more depth than if I’d put it through the press. The […]
Little update, I have been lucky enough to be offered a place on an M.A. in UCLAN Preston on the Fine Art:Site and Archive Intervention course and I find myself slightly nervous, wondering if I am mad doing another 2 […]
Dear Alex, Have you ‘found your practice’? What factors make this problematic? Are they external or internal? What is a ‘true practice’ any way..? Sarah Rowles from Q-Art London, a new forum for open discussion, is going to be the […]
Well, things are better now that we have dates! They (official types) are meeting on the 13th August to sort money out and transfers will be made the next day.. so we should have money by the 18th at the […]
Teresa here and I’ve just spent an age trying to sort my computer out and get Internet access. So, will be quick as I’ve not eaten yet and its now 8.30pm. Jake and Max, my lovely twin grandsons came to […]
This week has been quite busy already. On Monday I held a workshop for a group of embroiderer’s who were interested to here about me, my work and my inspirations. It was lovely to talk to a group of people […]
There are things and experiences that I enjoy such as line and colour, paper and paint. I am just searching. I have been working on some more photographs of sunsets at St Ives. There are hundreds of thousands of sunset […]
Yesterday a man asked what I’d do if he pushed over the tunnel with the remote control digger, I said I’d build it again. He laughed and left. Dismantled the tunnel today to lay black plastic on the floor. Haven’t […]
A funny thing about writing a blog is people tell you they’ve read your blog and then I tell them what’s happened. But they’ll already know because they’ve read the blog.
So, the Linz blog has had to go for now. I stopped blogging about my work for lots of reasons last year, and thought it might be different during a residency. But it’s not. I think I tend to get […]
TV studios this afternoon and this evening. Some teams are stronger than others, for sure, and I think the key to that has been to be really clear about how they have decided to work together – either by doing […]
The project I am working on is expanding. I have invited friends and aquaintances from facebook and beyond to whistle a tune thus: ‘Hayley Lock is inviting everyone she knows to whistle a tune for a project I am doing.The […]
JULIET- At work in the art school shop and robotic with tiredness, I was up working on a drawing for the show untill late late night. Heres some photos of what we did at the Southside Studios yesterday. Install starts […]
The Bird man of Alcatraz shows Bert Lancaster is a ‘lifer’ who gets up every day to tend his collection of birds; he feeds and nurtures them lovingly. He cures their illnesses and becomes an expert on them. In a […]
After a fractious night, me awake panicking about having another hypo, my partner awake worrying about the proposed redundancies at work, I got up at 6am to grab a couple of hours in the studio before the children were awake. […]
I heard an interesting tale last night from an Australian doctor. She told me a story of a friend who came from Transylvania. One evening he explained that his grandmother had asked that her head be cut of after she […]
Events here at the Salzamt in Linz have got me thinking about the way artists get treated sometimes. The atmosphere between the three international artists here (including me) is glum to say the least. Instead of getting on with work, […]
