Ok.
It seems like a long time since I was here but actually it is only ten days or so ago.
Since then?
I have decided to exchange my large studio for a substantially smaller one in the same studio block. Change over day is April 1st. I have closed my brain to all the inherent problems of quarts into pint pots………too scary and it saps time and energy for any work. Doubtless it will all be a bit disastrous. I don’t like the big space – no light and slightly sinister…..the small one is a bit too small, but I do now have a space to work in at home as well………
The Farningham Hobby Horse Project is getting back on the road….Ros Barker and I have had all 120 out of storage and given them a once over. Wind and rain have left their mark so thats another job before they get exhibited in March- together with all the PR and so on that takes so long…
The moth wing paintings are so slow- three a day maybe……….is it worth it? No idea yet. I like the medatative , repetititive side of it but you do have to stay focused or it can catch you out…
I tend to stop and drink hot chocolate – gives me a buzz and warms me up…
I am trying to keep down a rising sense of panic re my solo show at the moment. June seemed so far away in November but my hefty dose of flu, a sick elderly mum [ongoing] and setting myself such slow, intricate projects has seen the time shorten considerably. If I don’t work full on then it won’t be done.
I have been invited to send a proposal into ‘Telling Stories – Hastings’ which is wonderful -something I would really like to get involved with. Last years ‘Telling Stories – Margate’ was such a great show …
The proposal has to be in by the beginning of March which has taken me by surprise as the show is not until September. In my brain I had compartmentalised everything I am doing – and filed this to start after June…
So – ideas heavy and time poor at the moment………..ideas keep pouring in like water. Probably because I am working daily again. Nothing for it but to run a sketchbook and hope the ideas stay fresh………
Am I the only one who needs to live to be 100 to get it all done? Maybe studio assistants are the way to go; aka our Damian…
Edit… Edit….
Now – how to tackle five delicious moth boxes I have been given- where the contents are decaying into dust?
just beautiful………….
I may be a little mad.
