Residencies are impossible for me at the moment even though I always read through the opportunities and wish I could do them! At the moment I am working in “families” rather than series as suggested by a curator who visited […]
The online exhibition of selected black and white drawings from my Beachtime Stories series, curated by Sue Crellin-McCarthy is now live. If you missed the exhibition at The Margate School’s Line gallery, here is a chance to see some of the drawings. The complete series […]
Amazingly people were actually there, at The Margate School, at 9am for the breakfast opening with coffee, tea, croissants, bagels and fruit being served. I can’t quite believe the fact that 5 pieces have already been sold…. I wanted to […]
Finished the set up today! As always it takes longer than one thinks. Fingers crossed for tomorrow’s breakfast PV. Croissants, tea, coffee and fruit on the menu. The Margate School, Former Woolworth’s Building, 33 Lower High Street, Margate CT19 2DX […]
Short session today but focused! Greg is keen to develop 3-D work on how trees relate to each other – all about how each tree interacts with the others dependent on its shape , colour, placing, and size. So I […]
Managed these 2 despite being rather sleepy and the nurses being very efficient and getting through the process rather “quickly.” I sold 3 pieces at the Parallax art fair. May or may not do it again – organising things at […]
I’ve just added the chemo drawings I’ve done since January this year to my website: Link This one is from April. “I am currently on maintenance chemo so since January 2019 I have been doing a drawing every treatment day, […]
More drawings from my beach time stories sequence
Sometimes the unexpected happens. I took a friend to see some work in a small exhibition of drawings by participants in the CHALKUP21 drawing show, which includes work by me and I ended up selling her one. This brings this […]
Blog about the work I am doing for a commission from Dover District Council to create an artist’s film and a series of drawings/monotypes resulting from my research into the history of Russell Gardens in Dover and its current use as a social space of work and recreation.
These 3 drawings will be in the SFSA Drawing Open tomorrow. 51 artists are showing work and there will be 111 drawings to look at! Preview: 24 May 6-9pm Open for two weeks, Thurs-Sun Week one: 24-27 May Week two: 31 […]
Novellist Penny Hancock reviews Victoria Rance: The Night Horse and The Holy Baboon Sculptures, Drawings, Photographs and Animations 2007-2017 at The Cello Factory 23-30 October 2017
A starfish, bryozoa, sea grass. Lines do not connect, graphite traces describe little of what was seen but leaves an impression on the slate. The physical act of holding steady and drawing, mostly without taking my eyes from the subject. […]
