This year has been heavy on administration and a bit light on making. Having had some success with the promotion I have decided to have a concentrated period of making, and have started on a series of works under the […]
Starting new stories. New work, stage one the base layer, started today, yellow ochre, chromium oxide and C Robeson matt glaze medium in various concentrations. 1x1m The smoggy rays of morning got me experimenting on some small 10x10cm boards […]
I was delighted to be accepted for Art Fair Malaga this week, and a after a little struggle with RyanAir I have booked my ticket and seperatley a nice cheap central place to stay. At this point in time I […]
Alone in a wine dark sea WIP 1x1m traditional pigments and oil painting media, hand mixed Having spent the largest share of last year working in indigo with all its rich potential for tone and its heavily laden role within […]
Come along tonight 6th December 6-8 and meet the artists The work entitled Bedload part 1 and 2 started in the summer when the A20 was blocked and instead of heading off to Kent, my daughter and I diverted to […]
So finally I seem to have merged from the flu fog. I have completed some new works this week, and got a load of admin done ready for two shows coming up in December The Thames: The ARTery of London […]
Having been quite excited by some of the connections which have come out of Parallax I have been knocked sideways by a horrible bug, and stuck with a fuzzy brain and floppy body, which leaves me challenged by a few […]
PARALLAX- HOW WAS IT FOR YOU? @PARALLAXARTFAIR @ASHLEIGHDIX Well given that about a third of the people I spoke to at Parallax were other artists wondering about whether they should take a still next time I thought I’d write a […]
The indigo works that I am showing at Chelsea come from a series addressing the question of sense making with diminished information. Indigo has been at the heart of global trade since it began, it is mentioned in Pliny, as […]
This week is an admin week. So this week I am pleased to have been offered membership of Plastic Propaganda, and so am preparing the documentation necessary for their website etc. I have an Open Studios coming up with […]
What are the lost stories of Oblivion and Rememberance? Completed work In a life, in a culture, in an individual? And what does it mean when you have no access to or power over who you are? When […]
So I have been sorting, mounting,framing pricing and wrapping prints ready for the Fortunate Events Sale on Friday at the Bald Faced Stag, East Finchley. And working on my 3D piece to submit for the next plastic propaganda […]
She is walking slowly into the Leith… oil indigo and sugar on canvass, 1m x 1m, work in progress So I am working on these pieces building up layers of pigment and darkness dealing with stories from the trade in […]
I have started work on some pieces related to the indigo trade. A trade so tied up with the history of colonialism, forced labour, monopoly practice and darkness. It is possible to buy fair traded indigo now for what […]
This has been a busy week, getting the work ready and nerves steady and down to St Katherine’s dock for the Nautical Perspectives Plastic Propaganda show. Exhibition on now! Then getting on with some new work playing […]
Sitting at our kitchen table where she has sat hundreds of times before Padma says “I am lost”. Continuing with research into the history of global sea trade, especially early trade in spice, dyes, fabric and sugar and confirm […]
This week and for the next few weeks I am really busy just making and organising things for the summer when I have a series of events coming up: I am making a plinth for on of my pieces […]
I am feeling delighted that I have been selected for the “Nautical Perspectives” exhibition to be held at Commodities House, St Katherine’s Dock, between 1st and 15th of May. I will be showing 3 works which are concerned with the […]
My work is a project, the Art From London Markets Project, a reflection of our relationship to food in London explored through art, image making, community interactive events, installations and blogging both as a record of the project and as part […]
Combining my research with the school holidays I take my smallest child with me. My smallest loves street food, so this week at her request we visted Borough Market. It is her favourite of the markets she has come to […]
Recently I have been working on a series where the narative is that of the origins of international trade of food stuffs, rather than the personal narative of market users. Last summer we spent a fantastic afternoon walking though the […]
So there is this magical thing, the way that we tell stories, the way we project ourselves into the lives of others and the way that those stories reflect back at us. There is the moment a baby recognises his […]
