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My my, we are well into February aren’t we. Art-wise what have I got to show for it? It certainly has been a patchy month. Having received 2 bits of news, (one bad and one sad), I have to confess […]

Three weeks since my last post – where has the time gone?! I have been working as hard as I possibly can and I have felt my work taking on the desire for a genuine change in direction, a fairly […]

I used to love drawing as a kid and began getting back into it a couple of years ago, mainly as an accompaniment to research, but didn’t really look into it in any great depth.  More recently, I have been […]

This drawing is from 2009.  It’s called: “What wouldn’t I give grow old in a place like that…” (the title comes from a line spoken by one of the characters in the 1940s Powell and Pressburger film A Canterbury Tale). The […]

2013-2014, quite a stressful year (both personally and professionally) where I discovered a certain catharsis to drawing. These drawings began as improvised reinterpretations of my dual compositions with visual influences coming from the Yin Yang symbol, Jungian archetypes, Surrealism and […]

I got a call from my brother to say that our mother was in hospital neat Luton, and not too well. She is 94 now, and with pneumonia having had a hip replacement, a long away from the sea, me […]

Firstly I will apologise for the disjointed nature of what you are about to read, I managed to stay in my studio until 11pm tonight so must be quick. I stole a really cheeky look around the National Gallery after […]

As a colour blind artist (please get the sniggering out of the way now please) I have always predictably struggled with the application of colour to my drawings and it’s underlying theory (theory meaning philosophically as opposed the science of […]

Just a quick random post.  I’m sure I’m not alone here in saying all I ever seem to see are people with necks craned and hunched over a smartphone – this unfortunately is an all too common sight in my […]

Whilst scrolling aimlessly through my Instagram page I had the thought that the throwaway society that we have now begun to live in has rubbed off on the way we choose to view art. Instead of picking up a book […]

The final blog post for the ‘Armchair Artist Residency’. The Beaney House of Knowledge and Art: The Front Room ‘Armchair Artist Residency’ blog. Blog number six, February 2014: In a cardboard box on a shelf in the museum storerooms there […]

A candid look at what happened after graduation from the safety of art school. As an art school graduate I was at one point part of the artworks system – albeit at undergraduate level. In wondrous naivety I used to […]

Blog number five of six.  The Beaney House of Knowledge and Art: The Front Room ‘Armchair Artist Residency’ blog. Blog number five, January 2014: I was told that there was an ancient Egyptian mummified human head somewhere in the museum […]

This is blog number four of six: The Beaney House of Knowledge and Art: The Front Room ‘Armchair Artist Residency’ blog. Blog number four, December 2013: I’ve installed an exhibition of my drawings and sketchbooks in The Drawing Room at […]

This is the third of six blog posts written for my ‘Armchair Artist Residency’ at The Beaney House of Knowledge and Art, in Canterbury, a few years ago.   The Beaney House of Knowledge and Art: The Front Room ‘Armchair […]

A few years ago I did a residency at ‘The Beaney’ in Canterbury and I posted six blog posts about my time there.  These posts are no longer available on their website and so I thought I’d re-post them here. […]

Good evening and Happy New Year to you all. This blog entry will be slightly disjointed and I will jump from one thing to the next – apologies, I have a lot to share with you and not much time. […]