University of Chester

I have not had much time to blog lately; I have had to really pick up the pace with my work as the degree show looms ever closer.

I have mostly been working on my painting and developing ideas for my work. I had intended to put my painting and my photography work together to form an installation, but I have now decided to keep them separate. This has thrown up all kinds of problems about how it will now work. Both my photography work and my fine art work have been based on the Virgin Mary and her relationship with the sea, so I still want the work to be positioned together, or at least close by. The photography work will take the form of panels of images all related to the Virgin Mary. This includes my own photography work as well as collages, found and appropriated images, contact sheets etc. The result is an eclectic mix of images. I aim to make a set of panels which will be mounted on a wall.

My other two projects are progressing nicely. I have been buying and planning for my planned pilgrimage, although I now think that I will postpone it until May to allow longer for my ideas to develop. I am also working on my Sheffield Steel photography project. I need to get back into the darkroom to start developing some of the photographs of factories that I shot the last time I was in Sheffield.

Generally I think that my work is moving along nicely, it’s just a case of juggling it all at the moment.