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Hermine had a bit of a mental breakdown in the run up to the presentation this afternoon. The stress of the big occasion was getting to her. We managed to get the place ready for 3.30pm and then sat patiently […]

AUDIOBLOG – Please click here The plate spinning was a useful metaphor. What I’m finding interesting is the smashed plate and how I end up seeing it…. And how others see it… “Oh you must be terribly disappointed? No Jerwood […]

Looking at adoption from the birth mother’s perspective gives the adoptee an idea of the range of circumstances and emotions of mothers who either readily gave up their babies for adoption or who were, and still are, forced or bullied […]

From the painting of the seed (See 22nd April) I have made a linocut of the ‘veins’ of the shell of the physalis seed and experimented with printing. Printing the seed onto enlarged photocopies of old photographs…

after writing yesterdays post i found myself being drawn into considering the snee snaw programming again.  despite the alteration in how i thought about the how the work was made there was still something that i really felt uncomfortable with. […]

Mid-way through my MA I made a whole series of collages by combining two photographs of women, one contemporary and one taken up to 80 years ago. I haven’t made any since – the films of edgelands have taken over […]

Firstly apologies for no blog yesterday. We basically spent all day sweeping up the barn (think mammoth spider webs and tonnes of pigeon shit). There has been a woofers revolt. They couldn’t handle Hermine any more and have done a […]

A second portrait. This is Hugo – and his last day working in Structure 14 The first week in any new place is about getting used to the context and working out what is to be done – and in the […]

On Friday 20th May we met with Emma Harrabin from Coventry 2021, Coventry 2021 is the campaign for Coventry to be the City of Culture in 2021. Emma was organising the public launch which was taking place at Godiva Festival […]

On the 13th June Nichola from Vortex Creates came to meet Sarah and I. We wanted to meet her as she does really interesting projects which have essences of our interests. The two that really interest me are the Lost […]

I am feeling very guilty as Sarah and I haven’t been blogging recently for our Professional Development Grant. Everything has been going so well, we are incredibly busy and this is why our blogs have been a bit delayed! Today […]

This is the paper I  presented to the symposium at Both Ends of Madness yesterday: It is a discussion of my approach to my painting She Walks Slowly into the Leith without a Boatman to guide Her . Phoenix Egg […]

when i bounced around on the first day of the residency talking about me and my work i really didn;t expect to be actually working on realising the re-imagined snee snaw. on the first day i was hyper with nerves and […]

Fine weather and lots of work done, including my first portrait, another watercolour, and a view across from the Ness. Many quick sketches made. The first series was of a tour of the site to introduce newcomers and update proceedings for others. […]