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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 […]

Artists have to be more than creators- we have to be publicists, we have to market our work. I am creating a piece that outlines the difference in the amount of time it takes to create a piece compared to […]