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This is difficult for me…I may have to walk away from this gallery. When I suggested in my last email to the gallery I put in writing what we had discussed in our phone conversations as a form of contract […]

After getting into a bit of a routine – panic about what to do for festival/festival happens/panic about what to put into Kalender/Kalender happens and feels OK after all/panic about what to do for festival … well, you're getting the […]

28/02/08My wife has gone to sea again so for the first time I drove to Bedford. It was an uneventful journey punctuated only by bouts of road rage (other people’s) and my own lapses of concentration (probably causing the road […]

Today’s post (and I am noticing that these are not frequent enough!!) is based on artworks found on a website of a gallery based in Iowa. It is http://www.olsonlarsen.com.' The gallery was originally established about twenty years ago or so […]

2008 update Writing a regular blog for Degrees Unedited in the run up to my degree show was a surprisingly therapeutic experience. It helped me to get perspective on my technical problems – to realise that if a painting wasn’t […]

2008 update Blogging on Degrees Unedited gave me the chance to write down thoughts and worries that were running through my head about the degree and upload it onto the website, instead of my usual ramblings and confusions that had […]

2008 update Writing a blog for Degrees Unedited was a cathartic experience. It allowed me to step out of my context for a second, and summarise my own progress using written word. It gave me a sense of perspective, pride […]

2007 update What a difference a year makes. Around this time in 2006 my degree show was taking shape: a difficult time, full of tension, apprehension and misgivings – emotions common to all final year students. In short, life was […]

2007 update After 6 years at Cleveland College of Art and Design (CCAD) studying part-time, 2006-07 was earmarked as time to redress the toll of neglect suffered by home and family. I had never intended becoming a professional artist but […]

2007 update “This is all fruit and sex.” Scrawling page one of my degree show comments book, these letters evoke strange detachment from an intensive three years exploring fine art at Dundee. Eleven months post-graduation have hazily disappeared in new […]

The exhibition finished on Saturday the 23rd and I just de-installed the exhibition yesterday and today. I was really worried about the taking down but pleasantly surprised how easy it was. I was hoping to take the work down in […]

Arts Practice and Motherhood ; a lot can be done while children sleep, quietly in the kitchen… ready to feed at any point, so very present to the time I have and making the most of it, even if my […]

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