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I recommend a doze to reflect. I was mulling over this Harvest blog, my new bronze trowel, drawing my allotment tools and I began to think of Jim Dine and his drawings and lithographs of tools, Walker Evans and his […]

Can’t believe I haven’t blogged since January. Too much has happened since then to write about here. So am skipping the usual diary-type stuff. Suffice it to say…lots of exhibitions, submissions, painting, non-painting, blocked and unblocking has happened. And now […]

I have not had much time in the studio lately but now realise that what I thought was wasted time is erroneous. Subconsciously, ideas and thoughts wander round your brain wherever you are. The studio, for me, is a place […]

Li-E Chen, Research, New York | 12 – 22 December 2017 On two artists who both work with Silence: Robert Wilson and Tehching Hsieh Four Days to Robert Wilson’s archives in NYC Two Visits to Tehching Hsieh’s studio in NYC One Day to […]

Li-E Chen: Thinking Posture Thinking Posture 思想姿态 [Sī Xiǎng Zī Tài] and its Chinese characters together express the idea and the aesthetics behind my R&D Silent Opera on the Life and Art of Tehching Hsieh. 思(sī) to think; to cogitate: […]

Reflections on participating in the Artists’ International Delegation 2018, Budapest: Dialogue, discussion, debate, and discourse. dialogue Noun 1              A conversation between two or more people as a feature in a book, play or film. 1.1          A discussion between two or […]

From the outset I am going to state that a lot of this post is based on assumptions or limited information. However, this writing is being used as an opportunity to lay out some thoughts prior to setting off to […]

One of the activities chosen prior to setting off on the a-n / Castlefield Budapest Artist Delegation 2018 is a suggested reading exchange. Everyone who will be part of the delegation has chosen a text, or in my case a […]

In the wilds of Suffolk, there is a beautiful unusual house. Contained within that house is a studio and a multi-functional table where ideas are explored and work is developed by artist Les Bicknell. In these spaces paper is cut […]

  Following a tutorial with artist Kimberley Foster back in February I decided to consolidate some of my thinking.   DISCUSSION POINTS: Language of practice Temperature When the work humms Process Scan vs. Print (the difference) Diagrammatic process Mapping (visual) […]

At the beginning of yesterday I was wondering what the protocol that Val was bringing to the studio actually was. As I thought it was the plan: a systematic preparation and way of working to ensure that everything that needs […]

how do i think ? imagine the overall big picture and work inwards or find a detail and expand it outwards ? it appears that i’m a detail out kinda guy.  having had this pointed out to me it certainly […]

a few days after my last entry i heard the mosaic i worked on at belper station had been chosen as the best community art scheme (permanent projects)  in the national community rail awards. just when i was fit to […]

an unexpected email this afternoon entitled “Axisweb quoted you in a story” wow i thought, what have i done to be quoted by axisweb? https://storify.com/Axisweb/beyond-the-gallery  (sorry the embed function isn;t working with this and i’ve added it to the list […]

AUDIOBLOG – Please click here It’s a complicated business, the spinning of plates… Form filling, finance balancing, paper work straightening, diary keeping… they all take up time. Thinking about theories and concepts and how things fit together does too. When […]