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Laying out the herring nets to dry, can be about 2 miles of net. 10 days to go, before the residency comes to an end, I have seen the last three months of the year here in Shetland. At the […]

I am expecting to find evidence of crafts like basket making (especially to catch Eels!), presumably something similar for fishing. Also, I’d like to look at building techniques, of homes and boats. I’ve already seen evidence of early people in […]

Before I start this blog I would like to ask everyone to give a silent thought to all those innocent children, women and men in Syria being killed and maimed by British bombs; to those who have recently been flooded […]

Work from the Posture series has left the studio building, its on show – which means its finished, complete. Any sense of satisfaction doesn’t immediately follow, rather the debrief, the autopsy, the learning curve, lessons to be reflected upon. It […]

I’m interested in how my project investigating the experience of the train journey from Marden to London could be interpreted if I read it from the perspective of Marc Augé’s Non-Places: An Introduction to Supermodernity. Here’s what he says about […]

Oslo  |   8 degrees  |  sunny after a long long sleep in a soft warm bed drink tea eat breakfast look at map decide to walk instead of using metro can walk through well known park on the way to […]

looking to relax my portrait sketching by using various different media and techniques and studying other portraits that convey the …..pain, tension, defiance I am trying to achieve. Marlene Dumas’ exhibition at Tate Modern was very stimulating in the minimal […]

At the beginning of yesterday I was wondering what the protocol that Val was bringing to the studio actually was. As I thought it was the plan: a systematic preparation and way of working to ensure that everything that needs […]

The Question is… is my work cheap looking? Today in the group crit, I did get some positive feedback from fellow full-time and part-time classmates in which I thought helped me to think about developing my latest print work. Although… […]

I’ve began working with foam; manipulating their form using elastic bands and bungee ropes that cause distress and tension of the material. These pieces were always experimental and playful, however I now see them as elements of the body. The […]

Water on all sides and storms rolling in all day…..You just can’t escape the weather here, and now at night, lightning. Spending a lot of time inside, walked around the other side of the harbour to look at the Swan, […]

Second visit from Val is coming up today, the Fingers Collars have been located and are ready for action. So I can learn about ergonomics Val will carry out an analysis on me and one of my existing pieces of […]

What has happened within the process? well… reflecting back from the last post I made about my prints, I have worked and worked and worked, not to brag… but its really true… I feel quite exhausted to be honest after […]

What is new with organising my prints for Pretty’s? Well… basically I have had to revise the chosen 4 prints to present in the latest upcoming exhibition at pretty’s. I have changed one image for the second time because the […]

We’re back !! and so is the wind, in full force, I have missed writing here everyday, it has been a useful discipline, a way to filter the day and to gain a little distance on it, especially at the […]

Oslo | 8 degrees | foggy hop on the bus early no moon to illuminate the way driver’s headlights rake miles of seried tree trunks driver chats all the way about my stay about the weather (unusually mild) about the […]

I have been thinking about a couple of people recently; one a friend in London, the other more of a friend of a friend here.  Both these creative people have become very successful in realising their ambitions, and while they […]