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).
