Why is it when the work starts going well the personal life starts going wrong. After struggling to find inspiration for a few months, I recently got on a roll with lots of ideas and idea development going well. The same day I was feeling all inspired by work I managed to annoy or argue with both my mother and my husband! I never liked the old cliche of artist being self-centred egotists and definitely don’t aspire to it. But I think to do good work you have to have a level of self absorption that can make you less considerate to others.
Anyway, here are a few shots of what I’ve been up to lately.
In other news – I can’t remember the last time I had an un-interupted nights sleep. The ‘nearly 4 year old’ small Marshall has been waking up a lot as he’s been ill, which coincided with the week the baby at last decided to start sleeping through the night, but then when he got better, the baby decided to start waking again. Then last night I had both of them up alternating every 2 hours – oh joy!
Hence I’m probably a bit manic and ranting…
I didn’t manage to go to Frieze (or decided I’d rather do studio time) but I did go to a great show (now over) at the Saatchi gallery, called something like “Sculpture – the shape of things to come” which contrary to my expectations had some really amazing work in it. I will try to post about it when (if) I get a chance.
