For the past 4 days I have been at Wysing Arts Centre, Cambs as one of the artists selected for the first Escalator Retreat programme this year. Feeling rather exhausted from my lecturing post I was looking forward to lying […]
28/6 Sevenoaks – Swift sunshiney visit to Sevenoaks Station last Sunday on way to see Jude Law in Hamlet (very good !) but took a few photos part typical suburban commuter belt haven – part evergrowing railway station … developing […]
3/7 Hythe and Dungeness- made leisurely trip up the coast from Hastings to Hythe … visiting a smouldering Dungeness en route …. everything hovers on the horizon suspended in a filmy haze. Landscape utterly flat and stoney like a huge […]
I’m off to see ‘Twins: How Do I Know I am Me’ by Angie Hiesel at A Foundation this afternoon with my identical twin sister. We toyed with the idea of wearing the same clothes, but not for very long! […]
I have returned to some tight line drawing/painting. There is satisfaction in the making of line. It stems from a need for certainty. Line is sensuous. The making of it is physically and mentally demanding. The subject is a pretext […]
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 […]
