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Forth Valley Open Studios This is like a snowball gathering speed all the time. I was warned this might happen. We have another public meeting planned for this coming Thursday in Alloa, a town along the Ochils which has recently […]

FA22 – This module I have decided to continue with portrait painting, in oils. It is what I am interested in and is the reason why I started my fine art degree. I have outlined on my learning plan, to […]

Its sunday afternoon, the birds are tweeting outside, the snow has almost completely disappeared and there’s a cool refreshing breeze creeping through my window to keep me focused while i prepare for my first full day in my new school […]

A FRESH PERSPECTIVE 17.01.2010 A fresh perspective is always something that is encouraged in art or in life. Over the past few months I have been more than struggling with this very thing within my art practice. I gave myself […]

So it’s the big one tomorrow….Semester Two, Year Three. We’ve been told we’ll produce our best work yet, I hope this is true. We’ve also been told stories of tears and anxiety, not looking forward to that part so much. […]

The one where I heard alarm bells ringing! We had our visit to Kew Gardens with the Transition Group…great looking round and that, but one incident towers above the rest. As I have explained discipline is not this groups strong […]

cont. JOHN BALDESSARI Throwing three balls in the air to get a straight line (best of thirty six attempts)(1973); why do I like this so much, something to do with obsessive compulsive attempts at order. Alignment Series: Palm Tree (with […]

Happy Birthday blog. Blog is one! It’s been a very exciting and progressive year, which I have to credit in part to ‘Getting Paid’. This is mainly because it forced a change in the way I approach my career/practice. I […]

So, no operation next week: chemo first, after a couple more scans. Sigh. I have done my journal pages for the Alturnertive 100 journals project, which is based on the 1000 journals project in the States. The outcome of the […]

I’m giving a presentation to the foundation group on Tuesday about using books to make art. I’m not sure how I’m going to show my work yet, whether I’ll use power point or just show my books. I feel safer […]

Cosmic Mysteries My companion and I arrived at the London Art Fair after a brisk walk across London. The Tube at Monument had been at a standstill due to overcrowding on the platform. My companion’s delicate sensibilities precluded crushing ourselves […]

In October of 2003, the Spurlock Museum accepted a donation of a WWII silk map from Barbara Nelson. This map will fit very well into the Museum’s military collections as well as into the extensive map collection. Barbara received the […]

The Victorian Schoolhouse where I live and work is composed of years of remnants shoring up upon one another. It has rising damp and ‘Jews Ear’ growing in it. It has four shaved corners to prevent children hurting themselves on […]

On April 8, 1947, workman Artie Matthews found the body of Langley Collyer just 10 feet from where Homer died. His partially decomposed body was being eaten by rats. A suitcase and three huge bundles of newspapers covered his body. […]

“ it was an apartment turned pigsty…filled with piles of pictures, reams of paper, stacks of books, packages, wrapped models for sculptures, all lying helter-skelter on the floor, everything covered with a thick coating of dust…Except for a few friends, […]

Damien Hirst’s recent self portrait as model of Picasso’s portrait in his studio wearing nothing but pants: charisma, reports of sexual energy and mystical power; a minatour in his lair George Jamesone is the first recorded artist to be painted […]

A man doing The Knowledge on his moped. The heavy push of the gate and his physical memory of the space (Bachelard) Knew this space far better than I. The people that live in Lane End have dreams about other […]

The flat dissapointment of a going to a New Years day party. The flatness of a new year and the first day of it and the air of hangover-expecting to feel a sense of recognition with someone-a longing for a […]