encasing in encaustic.

Although Caroline had said we just need to make a final outcome, I felt the need to pull the project together both as a reflective, evaluative process, and as a cumulative one. Although I am aware I am in an endless journey I dont like unfinished business.  Looking...

Focus on..form, fragment, frame

After a very useful meeting with Susan it’s clear that I am coming to the culmination of this project. My default panic button is saying “do more, do more!” THAT is my comfort zone, work is my escape, my identity, my existence, if I’m making I...

Capturing those marks…process

Whilst I await any feedback on my Pecha Kucha and before I start the next project I wanted to spend some time in the studio exploring a couple of techniques thatI hope will enable me to create printing plates that would express the looseness of the inky drawings I...
Ruta de Arte Frigiliana

Ruta de Arte Frigiliana

It was great to be asked to take part in the second Ruta de Arte in Frigiliana, organised by the amazing artist Maribel Martin and her husband artist and musician Brendon Taylor. I had no way of checking out the venue I was allocated before hand so was delighted when...

Success tastes sweet!

Just taken down my work at Norwich Print Fair. It’s been quite a busy two weeks. This was my tenth year and after a couple of year lack lustre responses from visitors this year has been explosive! I sold 14 of my new monoprints ranging in size from 12c m up to...

Finally feel its coming together!

Whilst I always put a positive spin on making art anyone who does it will know it’s mostly an uphill climb. You spend days or weeks pushing paint around, scraping it off, rebuilding until it begins to show signs of life…and then invariably you kill it off...