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This week I had a day in London to catch Georgia O’Keefe, Wifredo Lam and Bhupen Khakhar as well as my first look at the Switch House, if I had the energy, all at Tate Modern. Having said that’s all […]

It was an absolute pleasure to meet with Klas and Lovisa this morning. Lovisa actually invited me to meet with them after I briefly mentioned an idea that I had when we bumped in to each other outside of the […]

May you be the mother of a hundred sons Elisabeth Bumiller   This is the title of a book written by Elizabeth Bumiller. She is a woman that went to live in India in the 1980s and 1990s and she […]

This piece, Abstract Drawings For Dummies I: The Tiny Section of My Soul marks the start of two series of work: Abstract Drawings For Dummies and 50 Collages Before Christmas. I had been adding small sections of collage into my […]

Over the summer I went travelling to India for 7 weeks. I have been there before (I lived there for a year) and I find it a really inspiring country to be in. Its full of colour and culture. It […]

I decided to change the size of my canvas for the piece of work, my thinking behind this is that if the viewers get close enough to the canvas that is all they will be able to see. Working on […]

Macbeth This week I decided to start a painting based on Roman Polanski’s Macbeth. I decided to choose this subject for painting, because Macbeth is a fantastic example of a film that has aspects of the sublime. Hopefully this will […]

I’m writing this on the plane back from Jeju to Seoul. A good time to catch up with the blog. Once I get back to Seoul, I will have exactly one week left, which is not long, especially considering I […]

We have been discussing the experience and the process with people we met on our journey. What is the story we are trying to tell? Is it about Debora Vogel as an intellectual, a writer, a feminist, a Gertrude Stein of […]

Caroline Wright and I have been sharing images, ideas and accounts of our work together with Yasmin Canvin of Fermynwoods Contemporary Art over the course of the project. Most recently we met on 28th September to share our plans for […]

Midland Lead has provided me with some materials for my degree show and yesterday my order arrived, two short rolls of sandcast lead. A material that is literally cast in sand, a traditional method used hundreds of years ago to […]

A chance remark from a fellow student, has made my day. I said how much I loved the Ab Ex show at the RA and she immediately said it wasn’t her thing and she didn’t expect to like it. I […]