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The first line of text on the home page of my website reads: “People have an effect on each other.” Don’t they just? For the last ten years or moreI’ve been working around this theme in one way or another. […]

Today as part of my ‘Connected’ project, I’ve paired up two badges. They’re quite different from other items I’ve posted so far but when I came across them in my sorting, they felt more pertinent than ever. I first acquired […]

I’ve just read a very interesting article in the New York Times by Michael Pollan called Weeds Are Us. In a way, it develops the point I was making last week about having empathy for non-human species – namely, weeds. […]

Finally! Completely outside of my original time frame the podcast has finally gone live. Its quite nerve wracking to hit the publish button and hear your voice talk out across the internet. Hearing your voice played back to you is […]

Even before lockdown I found it hard, for health reasons, to go to some of the exhibitions I’d have liked to go to and also some of the brilliant workshops and opportunities that pop up from time to time so […]

the current lockdown is giving me a lot of time to live in my head. a statement now difficult to follow up, i ponder for a moment… the lockdown is giving me more time to be on my own than […]

“Chemists have tried to imitate the chemical conditions of the young earth. They have put these simple substances in a flask (water, methane, ammonia, and hydrogen) and supplied a source of energy such as ultraviolet light or electric sparks. After a few weeks […]

So I had been thinking about gesture as widely as possible … How it is used in dance and choreography – the work of Bob Fosse (Chicago), the choreography of West Side Story, folk dance, Bollywood, Ballroom culture and the […]

I love seeing the work by those artists who are managing to create a “lockdown” diaries or series – I am making work every day more or less and inevitably in response to the current circumstances but I am not […]

i woken this morning to the realisation that i’m in the depressed portion of the grief curve – set up by the loss as a result of the response to fighting covid-19. all i could do at the time was […]

I have been editing film, sound and making works on paper during the COVID-19 lockdown. Working from photographs, the drawings/painting has helped me separate out the objects I feel have an additional secret life as sculpture, within the manufacturing environment. […]

Yesterday I harvested nettle tops from behind the allotment shop with scissors and gloves.  First ones had greenfly on so had to go further up and luckily the fly had not spread that far.  Collected a carrier bag full and […]

So another 3 weeks at least for the general population and another 7 weeks at least for me. I am missing the studio and want to get back in there as soon as I can, apart from anything to give […]