Tutorials are strange things. For me they can be about having a useful conversation but can also send me off on completely the wrong track, but in doing so, in a round about way having been thrown off track I get back to somewhere that feels more productive.
I felt as if I was hitting a wall after my last tutorial and spent days flailing about and wondering what the hell I was doing.
There are times when I wonder what the point is. Why be an artist? There are lots of ways to be part of the "art world" which don't involve struggling against a sense of the futility of one's own practice.
I have at last though started some new work based on noodles and eating – hospitality, shared conversations, nourishment, relations between women, between mother and daughter – all of this seems to be part of what these drawings are about.
