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Well that changed fast didn’t it? All is now on hold. We have made the basic recording, but will need to wait before we can get back into the studio to do backing vocals and small adjustments and to add […]

Here we are a couple of weeks later… I’ve never found it harder to blog… I can’t seem to think straight. I go from frantic activity, printing, drawing, baking, gardening, housework… …to complete horizontal torpor and mental fog. Yesterday I […]

  sitting with many feelings set up by the current covid-19 lockdown.  one of them to do with the non linear project, one of them about what my need are as 2020 progresses and how might the  confinement and isolation […]

Here is blossom on the pear tree. Two years ago this tree had two pears. Last year I fed and trimmed it and it produced fifteen pears. The dwarf quince branches are reaching for the sky. It was planted last […]

Had a bit of a dip over the weekend and wasn’t feeling great on Monday either but was hugely cheered that evening by my first Zoom drawing club. Five of us “got together”, drew and chatted for about 2 hours. […]

Connected ‘the state of being joined or linked; a feeling of belonging to or having affinity with a particular person or group.’ Every day in the month of April, I’m going to focus on finding objects which are similar but […]

My technology skills are just short of zero. Enforced semi-isolation is mind-numbingly dull so I have begun to experiment. I discovered that my blood pressure had shot up…. we acquired a home-test kit recently. So I took the decision to […]

Five herbs I picked yesterday 30 March 2020, parsley, sage, chives, mint, coriander. A plot is a piece of land measured and marked out for growing vegetables, or maybe for a house/home. Or a secret scheme or plan for something […]

A hazy blue stillness. Nothing moves. Until a sudden ripple disturbs the soupy water, stirs the suspended particles. Powerful legs propel the creature through the water and paddle madly as the alarmed frog attempts to secrete itself in a dark […]

I am often on the Ritherdon site during a periods of maintenance. Maintenance is taking place all the time, however there is a reasonably regular spot on Friday afternoons when the bigger jobs get done after the factory closes for […]

The Manchester Contemporary Art Fund acquires work by Nicola Ellis Posted on www.castlefieldgallery.co.uk on 23 October 2019   Nicola Ellis’ Dead powder series: Yellow, 2019 was selected by The Manchester Contemporary Art Fund from hundreds of exhibiting artists at the 2019 […]

For several years now I’ve been having a relationship with this small rock. Here it is… I went looking for a special stone on the beach in my lunch-break one day. Of course Eastbourne beach is covered in likely candidates […]

MAJOR CONVERSATIONS THEODORE MAJOR IN DIALOGUE WITH CONTEMPORARY BRITISH ARTISTS 4 OCTOBER – 9 NOVEMBER 2019 As heavy industry has declined in the North, our understanding of areas with a strong industrial heritage and identity are often distorted through a […]

No Particular Place to Go? 35 years of sculpture at Castlefield Gallery Hilary Jack, Turquoise Bag in a Tree   Nicola Ellis, Dead powder series/ Missing bits, 2019. Mild steel and dead powder. Photo courtesy Jules Lister   Charles Hewlings, […]

Return to Ritherdon work exhibited in ‘Each Toward the Other’, an exhibition featuring the work of Nicola Ellis, Joe Hancock and Hannah Leighton-Boyce at Bury Sculpture centre. 20 July – 9 November 2019   ‘Soot, stairlifts, shelves, steel, powder coating, […]

nearly at the end of the first week, been settling in and finding my way.  taking stock of the resources available and who might be up for some collaborating – there others here with me, all with their own focuses. […]