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Lower visibility With several works in progress and none of them resolved, I find myself forgetting what has already been achieved and concerning myself with what hasn’t yet! Easily done, especially when these works in progress all live in different […]

Thursday, 4 March 2010 Yearnings My neighbour seems to be in pain. Intermittent and weakening wails can be heard through the wall. I hope he will become quiet soon. While I wait I have begun making a list of people […]

Saturday, 6 March 2010 Christopher Frayling suggests that the key to Bram Stoker’s ‘Dracula’ may be the scene where Harker is beset by three vampire ladies. He thinks a similar traumatic event may have happened at the story’s genesis when […]

I like Alan (http://www.mynall.co.uk), he knows what he’s doing, and he does it to the best of his skill … which is far better, certainly in terms of discernable talent, than my own painterly skills. I often catch myself wishing […]

Photographic Memory I go round to Gail’s to look at her collection of family photographs, and there in faded black and white is a photograph of Woolf, striding, no loping, down Darling street. It feels strange to see him caught […]

These notes cover the talks (I am writing this in my hotel room) I am to do at Stockport College and Sheffield Hallam University (my hotel room is about twenty metres from the sea, overlooking the waves and cutting out […]

So I have spoken with the butterfly park team again and I am officially an artist in residence now. Plans are being formatted. Great news. Busy researching at the weekend, lots of varieties of plants and butterflies. One body of […]