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Finally I got round to listing some of my work on Saatchi yesterday. I managed to write a submission for the Bristol Biennial.  After a long day at the studio, I  must of worked a 18 hour day. I don’t […]

N is for No Permanent Address (Mark Boulos), A-Z of Filipino Cultural Exports B. 1975 / Mark Boulos is an American filmmaker, based in Holland & Switzerland. Straddling the space between artist moving image and documentary film, his practice investigates the relationship […]

I have been collecting images from walking around Ashburnham estate

Have hung the large diptych on the wall Kathryn Raffell, 2015, Acrylic on canvas, 180cmx120cm & 80cmx120cm. As I wanted the mask to sit on top of the females face I experimented with how to do this and came up […]

I have measured out my space for the degree show and can begin to plan what pieces of my work I am going to hang. I have drawn a rough scale drawing of the space. Kathryn Raffell, 2015, Pencil on […]

In the course of my research, I came across this somewhat bold statement by US artist Ad Reinhardt (1913-1967), who is known for his black paintings: The more stuff in it, the busier the work of art, the worse it […]

  AUDIOBLOG – Please click here The danger with a funded project is that you spend such a long time making sure you have the books balanced, promoting, marketing, networking and managing, that it becomes difficult to fit in doing […]

Artists in residence 15 Everyone looked quite miserable this morning so I thought we could have some fun. I’m off on my holls next week so wont be seeing the group for 2 weeks so I thought I would give […]

JUST THINKING I have been working on various items for my degree show,this evening I have been using red cotton strands on a dress, and I was thinking of Louise Bourgeois Insomnia drawings for some reason , maybe its the […]

I have been coming up with plans of how my degree show paintings will be presented but like with most plans they change. I have now chosen seven painting to hang. Having my largest piece ‘Wild flower’ exhibiting in the […]

Cracking open the imagination Sometimes in our day to day wanderings, we might come across things that for whatever reason, capture our imagination and stick in our mind. It might remind us of something, humour or intrigue us in some […]

Two days of progress in a days work? Yeah… I would say I have worked my socks off today to do as much as possible and have reached my limitations of how much work I can handle. From the last […]

I spent the day remodeling the studio…again. Attempting to maximize usable space. At the weekend I went to the Airspace open studio event. It was pretty good particularly impressed with the work of Kornelia Herms and Kyle Cartilage not that […]

I made a wooden frame for this painting, It was really awkward to keep the painted board in position in the groves of the frame. One side would pop out as I eased the other side in. I made a […]

I have made new canvases and have begun to paint. This time I am going to resist the urge to over paint the canvases and keep them more minimal. I want to keep the space and leave the pencil markings […]

Coaching Homework = PLAY ‘I don’t want you to do anything or make any work next time you go. I want you to play.’ This sounded like a strange and forced thing to do – but after thinking about it […]