Having torn up my plan last week I have now decided to not only concentrate on what appeals but, realising that people are my primary interest, to focus on human activity. This brings me back to the original purpose of […]
I’ve been asked by a large charitable organisation to advise on and artistically direct a number of public art ideas, most of which I have provided myself. They have asked me to suggest a fee for one day per month […]
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 […]
I’m trying to arrange for someone to speak to a group of artists about how to navigate pensions as a freelance artist. Have found some people to reach out to online but feels very corporate and want to get the […]
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 […]
Until now, I have been making large-scale drawings of wild flowers in charcoal on paper. I have had several exhibitions and so I put off this project until I had more time and space to work on it. But I […]
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 […]
