This week, I had the opportunity to attend the “Drift” exhibition held at the University of Lincoln by Daniel Rappley, a British artist working mainly with photography in experimental ways. Based in Newark-on-Trent, Nottinghamshire, Daniel is a founding studio member […]
It’s night when I most feel the need to write. I’m painting small pictures of frogs. The paper is cheap and the water causes it to buckle unsatisfyingly. All artists seem to have a jealous hoarding desire for paper. It […]
Sorry to blog again so soon, but I’ve just had another light-bulb moment so have to blog it before I forget it. I completed (I think?) a painting this morning and after making a coffee, returned to the studio for […]
Just begun a new painting about a childhood memory of holidays in Portland, Dorset. I found a tiny black and white photo of myself, my brother and mum at a place called Church Ope Cove in Dorset. I remember so […]
Today I re-discovered Howard Hodgkin. An interview with Andrew Graham-Dixon , plus several articles convinced me that his view of art speak is very similar to mine. I’m no good at art speak . I’m going to use his words, […]
AUDIOBLOG – Please click here Through process, thought, talking…. The dust motes of ideas become dust bunnies… Become more tangible… Workable… Visible… All the time, underground, the rhizomes grow and spread and make connections… And then, suddenly, under the […]
Rarely am I moved to actual tears by a piece of writing but Jenni Dutton’s marvellous Self Portrait with Portals has touched on something deep. How do we connect with memory and what happens to memory over time? What is […]
