Sometimes she feels like she’s barely there at all but she’s held in existence by those around her. No matter how ghostly her sense, sparks of previous colourful personality pop through in sharp edges and shades. Ghost Door (mixed media […]
What do BA Zanditon and Ahmed Farooqui have in common? In my chat with artist BA Zanditon, she shares her love of concrete and tells me why she started collecting hubcaps. I am struck by her desire to celebrate the […]
Hello and welcome to the blog about my podcast Something To Do With Art. In each podcast episode I share a conversation with an artist to find out what they do and why. The aim of this blog is to share […]
Conversations with artists about their work and the creative process
You’re cordially invited to the opening of my new studio and the soft launch of my ACE project Nothing ‘is’ Immediate. I built the studio with the help of artist Peter McGinnis during Lockdown, creating a resourceful space to complete […]
Bedraggled amongst her branches, leaves draped wetly so that she dries out secondarily to all of those around her. Sometimes she just has to gather her gumption and apply depths of patience that she didn’t know she had. Bedraggled Door […]
It’s a weird thing really, the landing of an Arts Council Grant. It’s not as if I haven’t been working in the studio for the last year, and if I hadn’t got it, I would of course have carried on […]
This afternoon I listened to Cajsa von Zeipel’s Summer Show from 2018. Cajsa is a young swedish artist now living and working in New York, the summer show a swedish radio tradition stretching back many years where ’significant’ people are […]
There was a feature on the radio about new film celebrating the life and achievements of education reformer Anna Whitlock. Listening while making breakfast my mind wandered to who I might make film about … Eugène Jansson of course! I […]
Festooned in chilli garlands, she’s resplendent in her colourful corridor. She doesn’t need to be seen by millions, just joining her cheery decorative companions in their merriment (and she might mischievously drop a surprise present on the heads of people […]
“Those who played survived, adapted, and developed skills and capacities that their ancestors could never have imagine.” “Play has always been a key to adaption and survival, and I believe it will remain so in the future.” Page 197 After reading […]
My Arts Council funded project Drawing Songs will be documented through my other a-n blog, (with slightly amended title) https://www.a-n.co.uk/blogs/notes/
She may appear still but she has all the moves. Her fizzling vibrations expand out into the air, scintillating and giving colour at every turn. She takes a deep breath and her voice soars – what song do you hear […]
I’ve read the introduction of In / Different Spaces by Victor Burgin. There was a mention of Henri Lefebvre. the theoretician wrote The Production of Space, which was leading to the objects and methods of psychoanalysis. Then I read an online […]
A review of Townley and Bradby’s ‘How to Play with MK: one family’s story of outdoor games in the city’.
Not a silver nutmeg but a golden pear. The best from my tree this season, a beauty. Beauty in natural things. Looking closely, carefully – with care, in all its senses. You see more, you see detail, you see flaws. […]
She feels like the queen bee of doors, she even has her own permanent red carpet! Queen Bee Door (mixed media painting on canvas board, 20x20cm/8″x8″) Shop: https://www.lynneforrester.com/store/p542/Queen_Bee_Door.html
