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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 […]

It’s been an enjoyable and productive week at the studio. I had a day-in lieu and that in combination with Easter Monday meant that I was only in the office for a half day on Wednesday morning. If only every […]

In what seems like another life, but was only a month ago, I walked along the line of the Roman road above Rowen (North Wales) making research drawings for the last part of the course –  “Using arts-based practice to […]

  Undiluted time in which to pursue painting. No constraints such as having to go to work, look after children or even aged parents.Very few demands or obligations in my life to which I have to respond. In former times […]

Yesterday was day 17 of ‘Connected’ an online project I created as a way of reaching out and staying in touch with those around me during the April lockdown. As someone who’s interested in objects as indicators of the passing […]

The studio has, temporarily, moved back home. Of course I have all the wrong things. I’m making do as I’m sure most people are. Restrictions to space, materials, equipment can prove interesting and provide little informative detours in the work. […]