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My regular blogging habit established last year has waned a bit in 2008. My last post refers to the work I was making for the show in Galway some seven weeks ago. It is now the end of January and […]

New challenge – finding an author to write the text for the exhibition catalogue. Looked on Interface, lots of writers but how do I begin finding the right person?

01/01/08Last night I was filming late in the gallery. It was an important moment as an iceberg was being slowly dragged into position by an electric mule. I was reminded of Scott's boyish faith in the tracked snow machines that […]

So Re-Connections then… Sounds good! Its that getting started thing, the blank canvas. But now its a blank screen with an even more unknown audience. This blog has come about as a result of putting together a proposal to the […]

Failed to launch boat but I wasn't thwarted by the weather rather the batteries for the receiver. They just took all day to charge up. Instead I spent the day wrestling with my magnum opus. It was really beginning to […]

Nothing yet. Off for another stomp around the shropshire hills….

Today my planning has gone awry. My son has had tonsillitis all week and I have managed to juggle things to cover my time at St George's but today I can't. I have had to put up a notice and […]

Vinyl Marquetry I've tried to incorporate other materials into my work and plastic is one that isn't entirely alien to marquetry. 'Marquetry' by Pierre Raymond is a comprehensive book that charts the history, development, tools and techniques of the craft. […]

31/01/08Today was windy and cold we were even struck by a sudden hailstorm as the driver wove the coach up the A428. This time I forgot my headphones a mistake I instantly regretted as a young man spent the whole […]

Last night I went to the studio to drop off a kettle, radio/cd player and some other bits from John's flat. I've made two such trips there since John died. Today I hand back the keys to John's flat and […]

A copy of the Lottery application form has just arrived. All I can say is that I am mighty grateful that I did not have to fill it in. Dr Reeves has completed it through the Wellcome Trust educational charity […]

Used this image of Caroline today along with her story. (htttp://www.craig-y-nos.blogspot.com) . It was taken over 50 years ago and she had never seen it before. Yet it turned up in another child's photographic album.

I am still awaiting my first postcard!! There is good news though! i have heard on the grapevine that soon there will be not one but three on the way to me…my only fear is that they arrive and then […]