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Did a day Graphic Recording yesterday. A day of listening intently and drawing out the story in public is always very tiring. But I did managed to get three collagraph plates started today and am looking forward to proofing at […]
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Rejection is always hard to deal with especially when it comes with no feedback as it so often does in the art world. Is it me, my work, this particular image or my reason for creating that is being rejected. […]
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Got really excited this morning a big parcel arrived in the post. It’s the first posting of the O.U. materials for the MA in Art History that I start in February. Excitement is dampened a bit by apprehension – is […]
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Just had the hard copy of Call for Enteries 2011 from Mall Galleries. I Can’t find any explanation as to why I should, as an artist over 35, pay twice as much per work as an artist under 35? I […]
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I just got an e-mail from the Mall Galleries for the Royal Society of British Artist Exhibition. The fee per work is £6.00 if you are under 35years of age and £12.00 if you are over that age? Not sure […]
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Personal images from residency at Cill Rialaig Images made and of Cill Rialaig
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It’s a year since I added anything to this blog. It’s not that I haven’t been working although I’ve certainly been through a fallow patch where it’s a real struggle to produce anything that excites me or that I can […]
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Trying to understand what the difference is between an image that is alive and one that is dead. Looking at some of my prints, there are some that are alive, they have a voice and a life of their own. […]
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Started reading The Master and his Emissary – the divided brain and the wester world by Iain McGilchrist. He argues that the two hemispheres of the brain have not merely different skills,but have very different perspectives on the world. He […]
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Most of my recent images have been put together digitaly using images made in “natural” media. It’s a great way to work collaboratively as none of the original work is destroyed. Although the digital prints do live they lack the […]
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There doesn’t appear to be an obvious way to contact people who respond to a blog except to write another blog? Thinking some more about titling work The finished work requires a viewer. In fact the image demands to be […]
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I find it very difficult to title images.