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Recent sketches and studies.

Our new timetable has been published on our college site and there’s a couple of tutorials coming up, it will be good to chat through my progress so far and discuss the idea I have for a sound piece to […]

Art is the medium of human thought, it captures thought and brings it into the reflective realm of art and observation.

I visited the Jerwood Drawing Prize exhibition at the Burton Art Gallery in Bideford on friday. It was an interesting experience, which made me acknowlege the importance of drawing in my own practice. This prize shows the huge diversity in […]

About 18 months ago I was invited to exhibit at the Millgate Museum in Newark. I accepted… and then was told it would cost £70. Mmm. I reluctantly coughed up the money thinking it would be worth it for the […]

A busy week, hard to catch my breath or think beyond the task in hand. There were some visitors in the studio and I was sad that I didn’t have more to show but having to talk more in lieu […]

I was just alerted to a wonderful series of photographs by Irving Penn called ‘Small Trades’, which were on show at the Getty Centre, New York, January this year. I really like the performative in these images, the way their […]

I had a rather bad accident the other day and burned the inside length of my left arm. I have been on painkillers and in need of rest so been looking for quiet inspiration and also reflecting on this project […]

Drawing is a strange process for me. One part recording, one part meditation time, the eternal process of mark making and finally the deepening of memory.

It all started innocently enough with a goldfish. A friend was added to prevent loneliness and it soon became clear that the small plastic bowl was not going to accommodate it’s residents. Enter the 85 litre, filtered, illuminated and heated […]

I’m trying not to be braindead this half term but it’s very hard…New 8 mm film has arrived and Iv’e dusted off that old camera from the garage…Looking forward to making some films again…maybe with cats and boats, like this […]

In 1968 the artist and writer jack Burnham prophesised that “A systems aesthetic will become the dominant approach to a maze of socio-technical conditions rooted only in the present.”