A round up of 2010.
Highs:
This year started and finished with two blog milestones. A-N Blogger of the Year for a walk with Cosmo at the start, and recently the Blogger Interview with Andrew Bryant. This online community grows from strength to strength and I so glad I’m involved.
Being awarded a modest amount of money from Canterbury City Council to enable the whole Blean Woodland thing to happen. http://wildartintheblean.blogspot.com/.
Making lots of new working relationships. Even though my earnings were down by about a quarter from last year it has been one of my busier years.
Dover Kent Whitfield Primary School, Ceramic frieze
Benenden C of E Primary School Kent. ‘Discovering Malawi Project’
The St. Georges School Garden.
Completion over several years of the award winning Isle of White Eco Loos: The Greenest Loos in the Nation
St. Helens Hospital Exterior Mosaic Entrance Feature
Briary School Club Building. Exterior make over.
Engaging Landscapes Project, Medway . The Strood Community Trail http://stroodcommunitytrail.blogspot.com/ this project involved working with my friend Jo and Animate http://www.animatecommunityarts.com/
Other smaller projects included:
Design collaboration with Paula Groves on two pieces of large metal sculptures. http://www.sculptedmetal.co.uk/www.sculptedmetal.co.uk/HOME.html
The big draw, at Chatham Dockyard to create a user generated map
‘Home grown Talent’ working with an animation production company for only one day scoping content for a film with secondary school pupils.
Poetry City, pavement drawings delivered as part of the Canterbury Festival
Other highs included my son becoming head boy at his secondary school and my two daughters enjoy school (on the whole). How well our garden is looking. I have really enjoyed riding my bike through the kent countryside with a group of friends. And putting a bird table in the garden and a peanut bird feeder outside our kitchen window as been fab.
Finally: My car is really developing personal characteristics and idiosyncrasies that make it special like an old friend.
Looking Forward to:
The Kent schools Torch Project. A pilot project aimed at supporting a wider kent schools programme celebrating the Olympic values. Working with http://www.workers-of-art.co.uk/
working with the North Kent Community Church and the residents of Springhead in Ebbsfleet to produce artworks.
The creation of the Wildart Sensory Trail in my local Blean Woodland. http://www.kentwildlifetrust.org.uk/ working with the kent wild life trust.
Working with Future Creative again http://www.future-creative.org/default.aspx at St. Georges school to continue landscaping their school grounds.
Being shortlisted for a large ground feature celebrating a market town in central England.
Working with Rosalind Davis at The Core Gallery on an artists talks/resources programme.
A return to doing some painting? Which also means developing work outside of commissioned projects.
Just walking in the woods with Cosmo.
Talk of vistiting Istambul.
The Lows
My lovely wife says there are DIY tasks looming all over the house and garden?
Being too busy all the time for relaxing and just chilling out.
Not learning anything new, nor getting out to see inspiring things and places.
Buying a macbook and being totaly confused and frustrated by it.
Working more and earning less.
