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Drawing of the Adenia by Gemma, student at Shetland College. Foggy, foggy, misty day….barely getting light. Yesterday I did a day workshop with some students at Shetland College, studying for their art national certificate. We worked on small scale sculptures […]

The idea for my chosen theme for Studio practice and my Dissertation happened while reading David Batchelor’s Chromophobia. The book mentioned The Wizard of Oz in relation to colour and as I had decided that I wanted to talk about […]

AUDIOBLOG – Please click here Being awake when everyone else is asleep is called insomnia. It’s just a different cycle. Some nights I get five hours, which seems to work ok, if you add an hour of lazy reading one […]

The seminar this week with Judit Bodor was about opportunities in the art world; there are opportunities out there you just have to grab them when you can and if there are’nt any then create them. We had a discussion […]

how do i think ? imagine the overall big picture and work inwards or find a detail and expand it outwards ? it appears that i’m a detail out kinda guy.  having had this pointed out to me it certainly […]

  painting from memory, ‘Sea-land’ This painting took a while. I realise that I’m only using a fraction of what I ‘see’ in reality to spark the final paintings then allow them to develop. Although I use the occasional sketch […]

I always feel a bit uncomfortable when I say I have the D word. People sometimes look at me as if to say ‘don’t use that as an excuse’ and then I feel like this. Recently I read this article […]

Thank you to artist Emma Barnard for alerting me to this Wellcome Collection blog post on the creative power of collections. From Wellcome himself, to Henry Moore, William Morris and Joseph Cornell, it’s an interesting insight into the impact of […]

The wreck of the Lessops at Hagdale, Unst. She was lost in 1883 but all the crew were saved.

How well did it go with printing the second layer of Chairman Mao? To be blatantly honest the second stencil layer that I had projected onto silkscreen worked very well even though there was a small hole left through the […]

You may remember that at the time of the Pocket Arts Place and Proximity Story collection I was having an unconscious luddite patch (I put this down to my West Country origins, where resistance to technology has history, as does […]