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Things are not working out the way that I had imagined that they would … this is not necessarily a bad thing … but it is a thing … a thing that I need to adjust to … I was […]

There is a long list of things that require attention … and plenty of material that I want to play with … yet I find the need to write something here and now most urgent … most pressing … most […]

This week was the last session of the workshop in cyanotype and tri-colour gum bichromate printing making. The course took place at Spike Print Studios in Bristol and was led by the artist and master printer Martyn Grimmer. We started […]

The very act of bartering adds an emotional reality to the process of exchange that currency somehow lacks: ‘What is an object worth to you? How much do you want it and what are you prepared to give in return?’ […]

I’ve had a weekend in London, with fellow blogger Kate Murdoch, at the Deptford X art festival. She had her 10 x 10 project open for business at the Arthub Studios and Gallery where she has her studio. It was […]

A little shy of seven weeks in to my sabbatical I have this fantasy that the rest of my life could be like this – being a full-time artist … participating in art fairs, well paid and interesting projects, being […]

I just want to play with materials and have fun in the studio … but there are other things that need to be done … adminy things and things that are chores … distractions from playing, making, creating … things […]

This evening I begin my slow journey back to Uppsala – intentionally … purposefully … knowingly … slow. Talk of ’slow’ has pervaded … perfumed … the fair. Slow as good, … slow as intelligent … slow as engagement … […]

Words and phrases come out of my mouth … and they surprise me … terms and and ideas that are both mine and yet somehow also a little foreign … perhaps remote is more accurate. I am thoroughly enjoying the […]

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 […]

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 […]

the residency will soon be in the last month and as this approaches i want to reflect how the year has split into four quarters for me. to begin, i reiterate this was a student residency within the creative incubation […]

Supermarket is an amazing event … what struck me most this year are the opportunities that it offers … perhaps I am particularity alert to this as my sabbatical year fast approaches … as I think about the direction of […]

The Supermarket team is same as last year – with the addition of one of last year’s volunteers. It is so nice to see everyone again, it all feels so familiar. And it great to say hello to the exhibitors […]