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The ‘go to’ day
There are days in the studio when I don’t have anything planned. Maybe I have finished exploring a particular concern, or I am waiting for something to arrive, to dry or I am just fed up with it for the […]
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Busy, busy, busy
I have a few exhibition opportunities coming up for the rest of the year so I have been busy in my studio, experimenting with new possible work. At the end of June we have an Open Studios weekend in the […]
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Nothing is what it seems
I have been fairly prolific in my studio this month, playing around with collage and watercolour on recycled cardboard. My current favourite method of transferring an image onto cardboard is using a gel medium and then once it is dry, […]
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Watercolour on recycled cardboard
It has been a few months since my last blog and to be honest I haven’t been in my studio a great deal due to other work and illness. Nevertheless when I am I continue to play with recycled packaging, […]
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Simplicity
I don’t have a very big studio – in fact it is quite small as studios go and it is crammed to the gills with materials, artwork and necessary furniture. This means that I have to be quite considered when […]
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What do I call it?
It can always be a bit of a struggle to know what to write about each month, particularly when I have been carrying on with the same investigations and nothing new has happened. Normally I simply like to write about […]
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Life is still life
I have been taking photographs of jugs and teapots that I have in my household. This is the start of a new series of works in which I am exploring still life and the idea of commodity fetish. Why do […]
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Existence
I am staring out into the garden at the roses both blooming and drooping in the rain. There is the quiet hum of the fridge in the background and the only other thing I can hear currently is the tapping […]
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Dreams and passing moments
Progress is slow but I have been carrying on in my little studio playing with watercolour. I am deliberately not looking at tutorials in how to use watercolour paint as I am interested in finding out what I can do […]
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Courtyards
It might be very chilly out there but I have been wonderfully ensconced in my little studio quite a bit. I have managed to fracture my toe quite badly which meant my plans to work at the theatre over December […]
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Interruption
Oh dear. I still haven’t managed to include all the bits I have wanted to in my latest series of collages and painting. I have been easily distracted lately. This includes illness, my work in a theatre and the stress […]
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Untitled blog post from "The Cultural Tourist"
There are various things that happen when I create my art, a place where my brain goes to, a kind of daydream. These imperfect patterns I have been creating which not only act as a backdrop to the collages I […]