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Oops – I really have not done enough work. I desperately need some headspace so am reviewing how many holes I can make in my current safety nets and how big they can be.

19/6 Haubourdin – went to Pierre-Yves venissage (presumably derived from varnishing day ?) just outside Lille – great live/studio space and lots of interesting work on display – all tucked away in a quiet residential area. Had a few conversations […]

So, I find myself in Gower, its a little rainy, but today is ‘rest day’, no riding and so I find time to tell you about a blog I am keeping with Jenny, alongside this one, specifically for our residency. […]

I have finally finished the retrospective posters for the “Battle for Eigg: part 1” (see attached). This is just one of about eight different colour variants as a reduction print with Linoleum. It depicts the play in Grulin last Septmeber […]

The I-phone. Chapter two. Failed attempt no. 5 Got all my ID, and set off in new second hand car, armed with printed experian report – status summary ‘excellent’. Roughly 47 seconds later car ground to a halt. Got out […]

Who cares about i-phone when fantastic poster size prints of dirty dishes have arrived. I’m sticking them all over the kitchen, to compete with the real thing.

Results in and I got a First which is fantastic news, so pleased it’s untrue. It was my highest mark yet too so that’s an achievement in itself. I didn’t get the fellowship, fiercely disappointed by that, would have loved […]

It’s all good in the wood. The phone vibrates and I pick it up. It’s Berrys, the delivery man asking where exactly I want the wood. I say you were supposed to ring me and he says he did, twice. […]

i’ve not been well. the rigours of the degree show and subsequent nursing and end of adrenaline fix had left me open to a cold and flu. at one point i was worried about swine flu, until a friend pointed […]

This adventure of sorts has begun in Winnipeg. I arrived 12 days ago and was greet ed by a good friend and the stretched Canadian landscape. Over the next couple of months I am taking part in several projects. This […]

Anyone interested in starting a crit group or something simiar? If you live in and around Salisbury, Winchester, Swindon, S’Hampton etc. and would value some critical support and interaction, or just some professional contact with other visual artists, let me […]

The conversation continues: comment Highlighting the rejection/selection element to being an artist shows you and the public where you are placed. Paraphrasing Robert Motherwell’s thoughts – one of the biggest problems a contemporary artist has is to determine who to […]

A pair of passers-by asked what the shop was going to be. “An art exhibition.” “You’re gonna sell art exhibitions?” They wanted to know where I got my atlases from, I told them the story. They offered me a tenner […]