The point of this blog was to talk about setting up studios, but as we have been in Harrington Mills for a year now, I think it is time to close this blog. I have just returned from an amazing […]
I've found myself with some unexpectec time to myself this morning, as the session I was supposed to have has been cancelled. This is the first day I've managed to come into uni since Easter – the term started on […]
My 2,000 words a day regime is slipping – instead of 7.30am it is nearer 8.30am before I switch on the computer. Still we are getting there.. For relaxation I trawl through some of the other blogs on this site […]
Ever accidentally dropped a tin of paint down the stairs?…I just have. The mind, the imagination, the terror, is all focused in slow-motion. All I could do was stand helpless and stiffly on the stepladder, wide-eyed in stunned, expletive silence […]
Right, I don't know why my picture is still up as latest updated blog, as that is not true (well maybe at this EXACT MOMENT) but pfft! Making progress in the workshop. Not only did I get in for 9am […]
After stressing out about the space I need to host my work for the degree show I have come to realise that I have been wasting precious time. Now I have started three or my four final canvases, I have […]
So where does the Zen come in then? Well, hours and hours of cracking rocks day in day out is a pretty boring task and the mind is needed only in very limited descision making so a higher mind set […]
I'm so awake. I’ve got this excitement inside and its only 7.12am . Recently I didn’t know this time even existed. It is amazing. The sun has just begun to hit the walls of my room. Glowing an orangey yellow. […]
Having restored, designed and built hundreds of gardens, I actually have grown to love weeds…and having read architecture for three years, I love playing with perspective that is incongruous and doesn't actually work…
Go round old studios you used to 'practice' in and look in drawers, for every ten drawers you look in you will find one important sketchbook. Its a feeble attempt to denote a certain 'process' to collecting inspiration but if […]
The project at the Lightbox is soon to start and preparations are well underway. There have been issues over funding for the project as a whole in these slightly uncertain days but now the basis of the larger project (into […]
and i spent all day yesterday casting, i managed to do both my arms, not perfect, but workable. and i was planning to do my head today but things needed to be printed and stuff needs to be bought so […]
The Third Child Taking on what I wrote last time, I notice that the way I am (attempting) to continue my practice at the moment, almost 6 months into my second childs life, is very similar to the way I […]
Student Panic in Masters Application Cock-up Well the Easter break is now over, and I must admit that I didn’t manage to get very much done. With three weeks to spare, which seemed to stretch on into the far distance, […]
AirSpace have started workshops! We have now completed two workshop sessions: A Series of Unlikely Events: with Creative Partnerships at Grove Junior School, Northwood, Stoke on Trent. We had a great time teaching year 5 at Grove junior school about […]
COMPLETED SERIES OF PRINTS Green did not work and I went back to brown. Had to work on an unfamiliar table and the 'snap' was all wrong. After a time of things going wrong, I began to get a rhythm […]
Let's start positive… have made 1 pinhole camera out of oak. It is a thing of beauty to behold, whether it will work is another question and involves a little bit of maths and according to my brain training, is […]
Well, my Monday meeting with Phippe and Pascal turned out to be today but that was fine. I explained many ideas waving my arms around while Adeline Michel (Médiatrice culturelle & chargée de communication & webmaster at L’H du Siege) […]
Typical! I was determined (but evidently not determined enough) to write something here on 3 April 2008, as that was the date in 2007 that I started this blog. I can hardly believe it. And now it's the 8th…. Anyway, […]
Nothing went right today I t all started this morning when Jewson decided to charge me £62 for some wood for my stretcher frames. I was half asleep and didn't realise until a bit later that this was daylight robbery. […]
Joan Thompson on mental health services and further education.
I am currently undertaking a research project called ‘Situating everyday creativity in Liverpool 2008’.
I am writing to lend support to the ideas expressed in the letter How do other artists feel about unpaid public art competitions? (a-n Magazine, April).
I would like to add these comments to the discussion on unpaid public art competitions (a-n Magazine, April).