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Arriving in Kolkata from the breezy sea air of Odisha, I find the night streets paved in cars, awash with a never ending flows of people. Against a gaudiness of light, colours, and movement you catch the fleeting shifts of […]

verb car.ry ‘ka-re carry to have or bear especially as a mark, attribute, or property carry a scar My work with old bags, undertaken for The Museum of Object Research, is in it’s final stages and will culminate in a […]

During my last session with Lucy Day, I shared with her my current Big Question: How do I make others feel welcome and comfortable in the art world when I so often feel unwelcome and uncomfortable? As a working-class artist, […]

Who’d have thought it would be so difficult to make more art? The problem arises when scale and ambition outgrow workspace. So my NYR#1: Make More Art! starts with a concerted effort to find bigger spaces to work in during […]

Since I’ve recently invented a time-machine and I’ve done the usual time-touristy things (learnt how they built the pyramids, listened to Plato at The Lyceum and partied on V-Day), I think I might plan another tea party. The one last […]

Separated from the seaside pier, amusements and pebbles by a high street of shops is Worthing Museum and it’s vast collection of clothes. For me the appeal of this collection isn’t its high fashion couture, but the array of everyday […]

I have been trying to focus on other things recently, so had said to artist friends that I was done with the begging bowl. Of course though then I saw something interesting and put in a proposal for a residency. […]

Earlier this year I did a Clore Intensive – a 2-week residential course for leaders in the cultural sector. This course has allowed me to think differently about things. About many things in fact, particularly to do with leadership and […]

Seem to have lost the will to paint. Help !!!! Lots of this going on After my friend, Sarah got us a date to show at The Garage Gallery in Aldeburgh,plus I was accepted at a local Gallery, am preparing […]

I have two pieces in the new Visual Arts Scotland show at the RSA Edinburgh Gallery on the mound in Edinburgh. This is very exciting, again a new opportunity for me as a botanical artists to have my work on […]