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still more notes

my self awareness of how i struggle to express myself is growing. for example i wanted to share the below picture and when i went to look at it needed to crop to what you see because i didn’t want […]

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New Painting: Dancing The Night Away

Lusciously lavish in their swirling plumage, these ladies are headed out on the town, off to dance the night away. Will they gain enough beauty sleep before sunrise? They tell me that they’ll sunbathe and snooze to catch up – […]

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Drawing Research Practice-led PhD at Leeds Beckett University

I’m currently in my second year of a practice-led, full-time Drawing Research PhD at Leeds Beckett University, where I am looking at how drawing can help us to understand loss. In my search for evidence of loss, I’ve been drawing empty chairs and spaces in care homes.

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The Homiens Art Prize

The Homiens Art Prize is an international, non-acquisitive art prize that is valued at $24,000 annually.

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The Homiens Art Prize

The Homiens Art Prize is an international, non-acquisitive art prize that is valued at $24,000 annually.

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Human-vegetable-mineral [iPhone]

The digital realm as a vessel may have served its purpose and is looming in my mind now as a pressure, shifting my focus from process to outcome. Today I wanted to use it to write about this, tomorrow I […]

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New Painting: Beauty Sleep

Shadows and heavy blooms combine and dupe the eye as they’re tempted falling sun encourages misleading shapes and assurances. Colours shine but become a little muted as flower heads close and nod, beauty sleep beckoning. Beauty Sleep (mixed media painting […]

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Mind the Gap [Basra-Mumbai-Cornwall]

What emerges one day feeds into the next. A series of starting points that form parallel threads crossing or merging unexpectedly. The pebble from yesterday is still in my head, rather than my body. I am minding the gap between […]

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A pebble knocks

A pebble taps at my head The word brain wants to say ‘welcome, come on in’ 2 problems There is no common word language The invitation is irrelevant Rethink Can we communicate via our common elements? What we are made […]

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Luxury and/or Necessity…?

Luxury, and/or Necessity? In the early hours of this morning I listened to this… https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https://www.mixcloud.com/BrumRadio/the-glass-age-feat-chris-cleverley-051124-w-dan-whitehouse/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAAR3ApYIqJ4v4fbjYeoAkZXWLKMDnJWopnka199Qt8vE7u67hC3GKuNciVAg_aem_I4fr_LaM12SoL31pLObqCQ&h=AT1_s8esn_FarpKaSBAajM184LJGvu8bW7vxDR1FNUPQr9770ogjNmB4FqH8CIFymMtYMZmkgcGc3dsx7w-uT-2fFPzIsuGfwU_aSS_aN2uYp3yACfepsi1XWplBCIVyApCFXwI&__tn__=-UK-R It is a regular show on Brum Radio by my friend Dan Whitehouse, and in this episode he interviews another songwriting friend, Chris Cleverley. I’m […]

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Bulgarian Poetry and traces back to 1990th

Today is day two of my project. The memory brought back a few words that floated silently and boldly on the surface of my conscious thinking. Literature: Pavel Vezzinov – Barier. I read it in Russian before my first visit […]

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Clearing

It seemed the most important task today was to clear some space to work after chaos had begun to muddle and disorientate me. It so happened that the walk I took after clearing was itself in the process of clearing. […]

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I and Bulgaria

The art project will focus on my years spent in Bulgaria. There, I found a strong connection with nature, met friends for life, learned how to be a foreigner, and appreciated family and national traditions, customs, art and culture. More than thirty apart, I feel the same warmnes

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Adhesive

After a failed attempt yesterday to use homemade glue to hold together a vessel, I chose the word ‘adhesive’ as my starting point and took it for a walk. ADHESIVE: 1 For adhesive that allows repositioning  – try gravity – […]

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New Painting: Big Personalities

Leaves gather and act as  intermediaries to intercept buffeting blooms as they extend their petals to absorb the sunlight. They generally get along, but sometimes the head heights of the season mean there’s just not enough room so so many […]

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A vessel for collecting stories

The 2 week residency is in an incredible location – the most westerly house in England. It faces over the sea to Lands End. The South West Coast path heads upward behind the cottage to the summit of Cape Cornwall. […]

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Please Vote for my November Art Contest Entries

Ahhh, November, November, a changeable month that’s categorised as wintry, but frankly we’re at the mercy of its whims – and it knows it! It could just be teaching us the lesson of living in each moment as it arrives. […]

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