As part of the AN coach training in 2018 we also received coaching, and I have been coached on and off ever since. Now, I spend more time in my studio making art. I take my artwork to it’s completion, […]
My practice focuses on the parameters of the ‘object’ and the multiple purposes and sentimental readings objects can possess. In this new body of work I pose questions around object worth, acts of mass production and duality of purpose within […]
Part of the reason that I began a daily drawing practice was in anticipation of a project for which I’d applied for funding. I heard over the weekend that I’d failed to secure it. One of their reasons for refusing […]
This week for the first time in months I managed to set aside a whole day for my practice. Having not had a chance to paint for so long it felt like loosening rusty joints, with screeches, squeaks and scrapes […]
Suitable for the backwards/forwards looking nature of January, I’ve titled the painting completed last week ‘Hindsight’. Here’s a better quality photo of it (taken with both daylight and studio lighting) Looking forward, I’ve created a new series of images to […]
After my last post about the frantic activity of bid writing, things have turned around a little… For some reason I always forget what it feels like, The Slump. I know it is coming and I predict it. But somehow […]
Time waits for no one… So many people who write blogs start their posts with references to time – how much time has passed since last writing, how inconceivable it is that it’s been so long and so on. I […]
Secret fractures – Art as Self-Harming Why do I sometimes let my emotions get the better of me? For the same reason I let it rain last Tuesday. Robert Brault Life had given me lemons – in the form of a bitter-sweet […]
Tracking studio progress (not just carving) frequent distractions (not just Art) and ongoing ruminations on the ‘why’ of creativity (not just process).
Spurred on by seeing my friend, Amy starting a blog, I’m coming back yet again. My new garden studio lies unused. Cocooned until the warmth of the sun allows me to linger more than the odd few minutes when I […]
Hi I am doing a Masters in Photography and my chosen research area is in the take up of Non-Fungible Tokens (NFT). I have spoken to a number of people and they have all said that they haven’t done it […]
Here/There is an exhibition by artist Charlotte Dawson, containing pieces developed during Abingdon Studios’ 2020 Work/Leisure residency and produced remotely in her Sheffield-based studio. The exhibition ties both locations together through a body of work that utilises the forms of […]
Can anyone answer this one for me? Do commissions on gallery sales count as an allowable business expense? I’m struggling to find any reference to this online, and this seems to fall in the gaps of the basic hmrc guidance. […]
Update: 08/06/22: If only I had known about trace down paper when I was drawing this!! It would have made the whole process much easier and less drawn out than it ended up being, and I possibly would have been able to […]
Two day residency with studio holders at Haarlem Artspace in Wirksworth, Derbyshire: Karen Logan, Anna Mawby, Tracey Meek and Tricia Rice.
As I have been planning and pushing ahead with both sides of the project (bust most relevant here, there rewilding side), I am in the process of setting up a crowdfunder for it, from which I will raise some of […]
