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Speeding up

My life is on fast forward again. Well is it ever anything else? So hard to say no to any opportunity and so very conscious of time running out. ‘We only have one life so use every moment’… such a […]

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Success?

Well, what a week I’ve had! It started with being accepted for a weeks residency at Maelor Studio in Wales for April.Looking forward to this. It’s good to immerse yourself in a new environment and paint without the everyday interruptions […]

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A day off (sort of).

I have an amateur’s interest in textiles, and do a bit of weaving and handspinning, so I thought I would make contact with the Shetland Guild of Weavers, Spinners and Dyers while I’m here.  Not only did they invite me […]

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A blog from the past (number four of six)

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 […]

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A State of Grace

  AUDIOBLOG – Please click here Through process, thought, talking…. The dust motes of ideas become dust bunnies… Become more tangible… Workable… Visible… All the time, underground, the rhizomes grow and spread and make connections… And then, suddenly, under the […]

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Sketchbooks and the Nitty Gritty

AUDIOBLOG – Please click here Going over old ground. I’m boring myself now! I look at the sketch book I’m working in and it all looks stupidly familiar. I dig out the books I worked in when Bo and I […]

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