Had a really important meeting today which sorted out lots of outstanding issues around working space and practicalities. I'm going to be based in an old cowshed! It will create issues around damp (used to that in West Cornwall..) but […]
We're are hosting an exhibition and artists' workshops at Freightliners City Farm in April and May 2008. This group blog will document what we're up to as we get to know the farm and its animals and people, and begin […]
Last Saturday was our first group visit to the farm. We made felt from wool, chased rabbits, fed small animals and big ones, and shovelled a great deal of nice juicy manure into a great deal of bags. Here's Craig […]
(Three) Range Chiken part 1 On Saturday afternoon I noticed that Craig had become agitated, as if nervously anxious about something. I was concerned (and rather amused) by this, and so decided to question Savvas about what had transpired. Apparently […]
BAD DAY Today everything went wrong. I stayed late on Monday setting things up – cutting paper, taping the screen, ready to go when I got in today. However my first print went wrong, the tape lifted giving a curvy […]
Coming up as part of the project are a workshop with children on the 19th February and a last showing of work (photographs this time) at the Civic Centre in Esher. Elmbridge Borough Council have been very supportive of the […]
Keith Webb, 'St. Pauls', Acrylic inks. .
Diana Baur, Jude Hill Davies & Katy Webster, 'Elemental', Mixed media, Autumn 2007.
Patrick Semple, 'Avow', Found Objects/Readymades, March 2008. Photo: Patrick Semple. Courtesy: OCCUPY MY TIME. Avow equates the journey beneath the river from the Isle of Dogs (that powerhouse of wealth built on the Stygian marsh) to the temple of the Enlightenment on the opposite bank with those rites of passage in all our lives that go beyond this world into new life.
Mike Russell, 'Abobynamagogocoque', mixed media, 2007. Courtesy: Mike Russell.
Howard Gardens Gallery, Cardiff
19 January – 7 February 2008
Apartment, Manchester
17 January – 29 February 2008
Why does only one in four paintings work? My method is simple – I gad around the countryside, look for attractive trees, then sit and paint. Who knows what'll happen (though probably one in four will succeed). My aim is […]
I've just been invited by BBC Radio Norfolk to go into the studio on Friday afternoon for an interview about Festial's progress. This is likely to be the result of their having received the latest edition of Kalender (one of […]