lockdown - a-n The Artists Information Company

One of the things I’ve been doing during lockdown is reworking old pieces and using material I already have. Hence some altered postcards – posting a few here. More on my website which has never been so up to date.

Continuing the exhibition of Susan Plover’s ‘A Feast for Your Eyes’ and taking some candid shots of the goings on in the gallery space. The Instagram account reached 50 followers on the same night as formation dancing practice in the […]

Lizzie sent me 4 of her artworks. One is the amazing lady with musical hair. Two are A4 or close and can be mounted on a wall. The last is a amoeba shape cut out of folded newspaper. This last […]

The stairs in my house go across and through the middle of the house. That makes a thin tall area where I have shelves for books and beautiful things. It gets messy. I’m not good at putting things away. This […]

A breezy and cool day. The birds were feeding the babies so made a lot of movement going back and forth to the feeder. The day drawing shows this with the layers of ink laid down by tiny movements. Night […]

Image: Sending Covid Post Cards

I don’t know if this was a good use of time/paint. The plan is to send hand-painted postcards to everyone I can’t see but would have done, or would have intended to, if it wasn’t for coronavirus. I’ve made sure […]

Like a good autistic I’ve been in hyper-focus. Lockdown has brought a surprising clarity to my work. It’s as though my practice was made for this moment. It sounds like a strange thing to say, and it is. Other autistics […]

I got told to “eat the world”. I’d planned to go to Glasgow, or was it Mexico? or praps I’ll just stay home. Drowning in lungs, like little pockets of pacific. City folks come down here wearing country clothes. I’ve […]

In preparation for Attempt 2 of Questing for Forest Cove, I went down to Landcove beach, from where I will be able to access Forest Cove at low tide. I hadn’t checked the tide times and so it was inaccessible […]

Image: Vulpes vulpes. iPhone6 + binoculars The Project: I intend to access a beach that has no official access. Questing for Forest Cove. Attempt 1 As I emerged from the bluebell wood a cock pheasant flew loudly out from cover. […]

Highlights. -Common Cock Pheasant. Phasianus colchicus. -Red Fox. Vulpes Vulpes. -Doe. Female Roe Deer. Capreolus capreolus. -Red-tailed bumblebee. Bombus lapidaries. -Herring Gull. Larus argentatus. -Thrift/Sea Pinks. Armeria maritima -Stag. Male Roe Deer. Capreolus capreolus. -Bluebell. Hyacinthoides non-scripta. Image: Bombus lapidarius. FSC […]

End point of Attempt 1.