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19.12.13 Almost time for the Christmas break, but just finishing up a few last minute things. Getting our latest exhibition – Heritage Detectives – online here at a-n in Interface, plus making a to-do list for the New Year. Lately […]

Week 56: 7th – 13th OctoberA few weeks ago, I had the pleasure of visiting the Do It 2013 exhibition at Manchester Art Gallery. The project is a generative exhibition now in its 20th incarnation, whose concept required exhibiting artists […]

Framing So: black and white, charcoal and granite, which – rather erroneously – I’ve referred to as ‘colour choices’ (there are others: red and green but more about those later). There’s a chapter in McKerrow’s geology guide called “Arran In […]

i like infographics! this startling revelation came to me on the Facebook channel. there i was … sipping tea thinking about research made yesterday when low and behold … infront of me was a post by susan about the infographic […]

Vaccum Forming! I bought 5 pieces of clear plastic for the former and John & Ruben showed me how to use the machine. I really enjoyed using this because it is very quick and is alot of fun. I chose […]

Some of this doesn’t make any sense and is personal experience but I wanted to get it all down as I feel like I’ve turned a corner with my dissertation by having this conversation with myself! The aftermath of a […]

I thought i’d post the photos of the card I made for Alex, as the card is kind of relevant to my subject of memory. I really hope he is doing ok, what happened has had a big impact on […]

Some photos I have been taking on my phone that I only just got round to uploading. Some of them are literally a memory of a moment that i couldn’t record in any other way, I just wanted to capture […]

This is a very rushed and excited attempt at a description of an idea I just came up with for my degree show! Keys hung from the ceiling above a tank of water (or liquid substance – jelly could be […]

Ok, so I am continuing to limit my palette and I am considering the surfaces I am working on. Some have a history of marks, and others are pristine and new. The marks I am making are affected by the […]

So, sketchbooks still not completed. Horrendous filth at home, which I am valiantly trying to clean up in time for Christmas. The team are still on site, installing the wood pellet boiler, the company involved do not seem to know […]

I have passed my Swedish language course – I got my results on Monday morning. So that is it for the adult education courses, on paper at least I am now capable of studying at degree level in Swedish. Obviously […]

Happy Christmas everyone and hope 2014 is a creative one.

For this painting I had a warm up first – getting ridiculous marks out of the way on paper a bit. Then I decided to carry on with the limiting of my palette and see how far I can take […]

The Practice of Everyday Life… I haven’t done much since finishing that pair of pants. I don’t intend to now until after Christmas. I know I said in a previous post I was going to start on the greatcoat, but […]

We were discussing the trip to London with our eldest child, who is eight. We told her that we’re going to London to visit two galleries. She said ‘Is that it?’ We looked together at the images for Home Truths […]