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OPEN AFTERNOON IN THE CHURCH The afternoon went well. 15 people came to each of the Readings on Silence sessions and other people visited between times.  As promised I will list the four books from which I read extracts: The […]

I have been looking at the concept of ‘frames’ recently. Not in the way that photographs or artworks are framed but rather more in the way that attention is drawn to a specific image or part of an image. Just […]

How exciting can cross disciplinary exchanges get? If you are me the answer is VERY. The other day I was lucky enough to catch @FionaNoble‘s blog about aspects of Spanish cinema, more specifically a post entitled Immigrants, Emigrants and Exiles: […]

  AUDIOBLOG – Please click here It was definitely the right thing to do to give up the permanent, albeit part time proper job. But this week I have been reminded why I loved it for ten years. I’ve been […]

I have had a week to relax and I should be coming back refreshed and ready to go but I find myself just a little too relaxed and struggling to get back into it. The steps I have taken this […]

We have just been off for 2 weeks for easter and in that time I worked on the dissertation which has now been handed in. It was relief to get that handed in. I also went to the Tate Liverpool […]

Whilst eating a sandwich wrapped in foil I had the idea of wrapping the faces of the statues in it. It worked best with foil that was crinkled and straightened rather than new foil but both achieved a 3D mask […]

The trip gave me the time to concentrate on making work for the fun of it given that I only took the minimum of art supplies with me, paper, pencils and a few watercolours.  I used the artwork around the […]

  Q: Hey Alex, how you been? Looks like you’ve lost a lot of weight… A: Yeah, lost five and and a half Stone, mate. Q: How did you do it? A: Well, a year ago I had a massive […]

  On the 4th of December I had my Stroke. As it was happening, I did not know what was happening to me. It felt like my body was drunk, was my mind was sober. It was about a week […]

The fabrication of the framework is well underway. We started by welding the 10 triangles that make up the sculpture, and then welded these together in to the shape of the final piece. I needed to get the frame work […]

  I have been a fan of Batman since I can remember. From an early age, if it had something to do with the Dark Knight, I was fascinated by it. Only till now when I look at at through […]