Here’s door#4. As always during these 30 day challenges, I’m learning more every minute that I paint. Palette knife painting is new to me, as is mixing paints with one too. Loving the new skills :)
As I walk around the city centre and other areas, I’m still feeling disturbed by how unloved the trees seem to be, and how it’s sometimes hard to feel their presence even though there are so many of them. It’s […]
Starting to explore textures today. It’s also been howling gales outside – can you tell?
Our regular selection of shows to see around the UK, including Emily Speed’s video work at Tate St Ives, Jerwood Makers Open at Manchester Art Gallery, and Alex Crocker’s large scale paintings and works on paper at TACO!, London.
Blog about a series of new work I am creating exploring the five Platonic solids through sculpture and associated therapeutic sounds, creating sound installations designed for welbeing and holistic engagement.
The first 30 Paintings in 30 Days challenge of 2020 is here and these are my paintings for days one and two. I’m trying something different this month and am aiming to develop my abstract painting skills with a palette […]
The Lines Between Us The connected conversations that rely on timelessness, by which I mean no interruptions, no deadlines, no need to be elsewhere unless hunger or sleep call. I yearn for those conversations that rattle along easily with the […]
Amongst other things plans this year are to paint, which feels quite scary as I know lots of brilliant painters and to explore my autobiography through drawing. On the exhibition front, I have an online exhibition coming up and an […]
A new blog charting my continuing practice
As I start writing this Britain is still a member of the European Union, a member preparing to leave but a member no the less. I am listening to The World Tonight on Radio 4 and feeling quite hollow. For […]
I’ve been walking in the centre of Grenoble and on the university campus for a lot of this week, looking at the trees and how they are living. The campus is huge and the trees there are generally given a […]
This project has grown out of a longer project I began in 2018, the Street Tree Twinning Project (STTP). I’d been wanting to do some work around street trees for a long time – living in London, they are a […]
