The Artists Workbench.
Were has the that personel investigation into painting gone, what have I achieved in terms of making art from a personel exploritory point of veiw. Well I gave up on that and find I’m challenged on many fronts at the moment anyway, and being taken out of my comfort zone. Something that I regard as being paid to learn. So I am developing as an artist just not in a straight line!
On the artists workbench from left to right then:
Olympic Values project. A pilot educational scheme in St. Johns secondary school. I am well out of my usual thing here working with a performance artist called lucy Platel.
The Strood Community Trail Markers. Finished but waiting for dates so I can install them. http://stroodcommunitytrail.blogspot.com/
St. Georges, this is phase two developing a school garden; creating an environmental learning space. This really means a garden with a pond, and external seating for a whole class, growing vegetables, building insect homes and bird boxes with students, many with behavioural problems…..again. Working with Lorrie Thomas who is a breath of freash air in this difficult and challenging place.
Ebbsfleet Markers, these are maquettes for small artworks scattered over a large residential development , a project again where I’m working with special needs students and a good friend Andy Evans who was my partner in ‘Nam’ (St. Radigans a housing estate in Dover several years ago now).
The Blean Men: Now one should have been painted at the winter solstice in Dec, but I never finished him, the other will be painted in the spring equinox. That will then complete the set of four heads.
And below: are my Febuary Sticks. This is going to lead into my Blean Residency working in partnership with the Kent Wildlife Trust to create a sensory trail in the my local woodlands. (I think I might be contractually bound to include Canterbury City Co. logos at the mention of this project, so here they are anyway). http://wildartintheblean.blogspot.com/
So no painting, but I am developing in other areas, which makes it all worth while, plus with friends along the way.
