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Yesterday I laughed out loud, several times, in a gallery … I can’t remember the last time that I did that.  The show, a retrospective: Roman Signer at Malmö konsthall. I ’kind of knew’ his work … from some group/thematic […]

Some better weather and I’ve torn up my plan. Having tried to make a list of things to do, which was beginning to make me anxious, it seemed sensible to simply go out on site and record, both visually and […]

In coming weather – clouds on the hills of Hoy While diggers continue in nearly all weather, drawings cannot happen in rain. Two days of bad weather has limited my activity on site but given time to think and access […]

It’s been two weeks since I worked in Enköping – I have three working days remaining (in the last week of July) before my sabbatical starts. This time away is time-in-lieu for working full-time most of June. Even after the […]

For the last 3 years, I have been making large drawings of wildflowers in charcoal on paper. I have had several exhibitions and so I put off this project until I had a bit more time and space to work […]

Next year, 2024, will be the final year of the dig at the Ness of Brodgar, when the archaeologists move on to post excavation work. While my residency on site will end, I expect to have my own post project […]

It’s About Art I needed a reminder really, as a way of redirecting and reordering my thinking. My friend and fellow blogger Stuart Mayes has the sign “It’s About Art” written large and hung in his studio. This is a […]

This week has been busy for the bees, they have been working their merry way around my brain, culminating in a day on the sofa where they could sleep and recover, stare mindlessly at moving images on a screen.  But […]

  The River Crane flows into the Thames at Isleworth next to Richmond Lock. You have to walk along the Thames at low tide through squelchy mud and turn up into the mouth which forms a cascade of fast-flowing water […]

Much of making art for me is about trying things out. I tend to work in series of works where I am exploring particular ideas that have evolved from other art works I have created. Very often it may appear […]