Here is 'Confrontation'. It is a small canvas with a large foil within a square. It is a bold, in your face image. It is dark, does it produce a sense of fear and foreboding? Are you uncomfortable when people […]
Adding finishing touches now. This week has passed so quickly, yet I'm pleased we've both made strides with new work – in 5 days! It will be great to photograph all of the parts of our installation in the dark. […]
I have been painting today. It’s funny that initially I attempted to recreate the images of my paintings in video and now I am basing my paintings on the stills of the videos. It is also strange how my videos […]
Paris Friday 17 I have been working on a site specific installation with a video performance element which can be interactively participated in by an audience for the last 1 ½ year. Getting permissions to film in a specific place […]
Frieze Art Fair, London
16 – 19 October 2008
The Frieze Art Fair, London
16 – 19 October 2008
Had a bad health week so not as much work done as hoping this week. Saying that, I have used my sketch book a lot more whilst waiting for hours in hospital corridors and being laid up, the ideas were […]
Part One There are those conversations that for some mysterious reason come at the just the right time to help crystallize an idea or lesson. Imagine, a 20 year desire takes center stage and I felt compelled to make my […]
Part Two Process art U.S. and Europe, mid-1960sProcess art emphasizes the “process” of making art (rather than any predetermined composition or plan) and the concepts of change and transience…. Their interest in process and the properties of materials as determining […]
Last night we had a drinks reception for Crafting Space and were brimming over with people for most of the night. The structure is 4/5ths full and there are only spaces left to weave at foot level and round the […]
Who Are You! Be encouraged to have a go, can you discern who you are in your community and how you fit in, what about within your family, are you a matriarch, patriarch, rigid, flexible, go on, send me an […]
Been so busy with one thing and another, I have managed to finish some paintings or a least I think they are finished. I have been getting some stuff together for Emma, images of work for promotion of the trail. […]
I have been very busy today shadowing the gallery curator of Hereford City Art Gallery helping to put up an exhibition. It is fascinating how much effort goes into making an exhibition flow and the hanging heights of the exhibits. […]
FRIDAY It's been a black bird day. Sewing, stuffing, hanging. I brought 4 bags of meadow hay back from my lunchtime outing. Getting the bird to stand up took all our ingenuity. There she stands with her shining eye. The […]
I have to depict the history of a town. This was my proposal and it was accepted. Suddenly then; history has become a real thing, not just a word on a piece of paper that represents….well er just …stuff. I […]
I'm using this blog to help myself move on with my creative practice, and to record my progress.
