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FULL CIRCLE Ten days on and I am surrounded by boxes again. Unpacking. Where to put it? Big Bird is lying down in the attic room, her root feet alongside; hay into the shed or on the compost. Stones back […]

After a long wait I’ve received the large format negatives that Peter Watkins kindly took for me at the camp on a blustery night last month – we projected my videos stills on to the walls of the huts. The […]

‘… the great Leviathan is that one creature in the world which must remain unpainted to the last’ there is no earthly way of finding out precisely what the whale really looks like’. From Moby Dick by Herman Melville. Melville […]

Looking back at these past posts I find I am in a different place with each one. Working alone, totally self motivated and directed, seems to leave me wide open to being pulled this way and that depending on the […]

Conjunction 08 festival is in full swing with Artist talks and guided tours still taking place, including Gayle Chong Kwan’s talk on the 5th this week at Staffordshire University. Gemma Thomas has been keeping a blog for the festival on […]

During our initial meeting around 25 artists from a wide geographical spread, stretching from Shropshire to Gwynedd to Liverpool to Cheshire, were brought together at the Regional Print Centre in Yale College, Wrexham and each gave a presentation on their […]

OPEN DAY On a grey, drizzly November day people came from Hastings, Eastbourne, Margate, London and Dover. A dog stayed for the talk too. Red wine and brownies warmed us up.

It's been a good week. I managed to finish the piece for the Malt Cross Gallery in good time and was ready Thursday morning with the car loaded up and an exceptional friend of mine agreeing to come along and […]

My driver took take me to Gaoxiao (Dutch town) and Luodian (Swedish town). Both excellent locations in terms of what I was looking for and the weather was ideal. As usual, it was tricky negotiating access into residential areas, but […]

It's the 1st of December and I'm still trying to finalize my Proposal for the rest of the year. There are so many questions raising their heads. Is it paint? Is it form? Is it perpective? Is it scale? Or […]

My exhibiton has at the Dome in Buxton has been running since last Monday at it seems to be going really well. I have received some fantastic feedback and praise from people in the arts and total strangers who have […]

Have just re-built my web page using Apple Iweb: http://www.annshaw.net/ will the links work? that is the million dollar question. Visited the Gerhard Richter show in Edindburgh yesterday – magnificent!

Thanks Rob for selecting my blog for 'bloggers choice'. It brightened me up at the end of a tiring week; I went to Scotland to give a talk at a conference for engage Scotland, in addition to all my open […]

I have finally finished my entry for Coldplay's Lost video competition. It is here: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=nqGbbBp68rg Even though I didn't have enough time to hand sketch each frame, it still took ages to rotoscope some additional video footage. I do not […]

Day 3 The morning frost melts rapidly under a glorious, cloudless sky. My string line has left a paper-thin frost free stencil across the grass which I follow with the spade. Tonight I will set this up purposefully for the […]

TAKING STOCK At Crate I used over a kilo of sugar, more than 700 artichoke seeds and 40 cardboard boxes. I started a series of drawings of 392 dandelion seeds from a single dandelion clock. There have been 5 residencies, […]

HMS has been without a rudder for a few weeks. The Christmas show was cancelled but I have still gone ahead with the web advent calendar, showcasing an artist every day leading up to Christmas. www.harringtonmillstudios.co.uk

Artist Talk Gayle Chong Kwan 5th December 2008 1-2pm Artist Talk and 3-4pm Q&A Film Theatre, Staffordshire University, College Road, Stoke on Trent ST4 2DE Gayle Chong Kwan will discuss her artwork, which can be seen as part of the […]

Having had only 3 hours sleep last night I can't quite believe I got through today. My little boy was awake from 3.30 am with a fever and cough and as such I am working on a different planet from […]