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Hello, and welcome to my blog post for March in April…ha. Well, an eventful month, major project meeting which is top secret, so I can’t really talk about that until it’s in the public domain. I’m going to share a […]

  Some final photographs of Lerwick: “slightly old-fashioned” is meant to be a compliment. Aberdeen is not certainly not old-fashioned; dour perhaps, but up-to-date.  It has a massive harbour sealed off with high fences, so that you couldn’t fall into […]

I’ve been reading the Subversive Stitch by Rozsika Parker, and i’ve found it quite interesting. Not only for the content and ideas within it, but also for some of the quotes i’m getting from the book. Quotes which could easily […]

I think so far this academic year has been challenging. challenging not only in an academic sense with my dissertation it has challenged me in my practice and my patients. I used to do installations so the jump to participation […]

My first move has been to arrange a meeting with the Cryosphere Research Group in Aberdeen in April. I need to understand how  climate change data is sourced and interpreted, how the data can be scaled to represent various timelines […]

I have finished embroidering one of my canvases ! I’m now part way through the second and final canvas. After speaking to a few of the tutors at university, I now have some new thoughts and ideas regarding my work; […]

I have been reflecting upon my practice, going back through journals, notes, voice recordings, text clippings, images, sketch books and blogs. I feel like I am wondering back through my thoughts, re-tracing my steps. To re-think the ideas, a conscious […]

Degree project I have worked on 10 2ft by 2ft MDF boards playing with color and texture. each one on an individual basis, I had thought of attempting to do some colour field painting… And on four of the 2 […]

4 DISPAIR   This is not what I had originally planned for this, I was trying to paint a waterfall looking down from the top, so I was standing on the edge of the water fall feeling I was about […]

As I said in the previous blog post I wanted to create a installation of my studio space, I shared this idea with my tutor and as a result of that the part of the installation that was going to […]

This is the plan I am going to take, I am going to do more drawings of the animals from the museums I am going to figure out where the animals are going to go on my painting once I […]

There is a quote that I found by Henry David Thoreau; The world is but a canvas to our imagination even though this quote is about life, it inspires my work, my art is the world in this sense. I […]