Artist in Residence at The John Henry Newman School

I've finally gotten round to adding more of the images as I promised in my last post. I've been working on an idea of a box, a cuboid painting where each side informs the other, and it is becoming an idea for a painting installation where the cube/box informs the work displayed surrounding the box. I think I came up with this idea a while back my friend had a dream where she went into a painting, my ideas surrounding this are developing nicely in my sketch books and in the studio. I've started making a small maquette of the box idea. I've also just got a load of hessian too, I'm gonna do some big paintings on it. I'm also continuing to add layers to a 2D surface by placing things infront of and behind the pictorial space, I need to be more brave and risky though.

I didn't realise that it has been a month since my last post. I've been pretty busy with everything, doing a fair bit of teaching and making lots of work in the studio too. I thought that my work was all going in different directions, but it seems to be all meeting up again now. I've been attaching stuff to the canvas and just starting lots of small things. The sunny weather has helped spur me on too, I have always seemed to work well in good weather for some reason. I feel quite motivated at the moment despite one or two recent setbacks, so it's good that I'm feeling positive and keeping the production rate up. I'll post some images later/tomorrow.