between july 2012 and august 2013 I was on the artist teacher scheme. i looked at various ideas across a wide range of mediums in a conscious effort to step away from my comfort zone of ceramics. i finalised on creating an installation in response to a series of phrases that spewed out of my […]

who are we to decide our lives are hard? did you fight a war, do you have cancer, has dementia conquered your mind? at what point did we become lazy & ungrateful, to not remember how lucky we are. we are here, alive, living it, no matter how infuriating, annoying, tiresome it may be, where […]

still seem to be wrapped up in the processes rather than the ideas; not sure if that is lack of confidence or just artist block. was really struggling with the fact that my ideas don’t seem arty enough, and had tried to reassure myself that it didn’t really matter, so it was refreshing to hear […]

so again i’ve come full circle to the dead trees, and have been working on some imagery in my sketchbook surrounding them. i’ve realised that, what with winter coming, no one will appreciate they are DEAD trees with out the juxtaposition of greenery around. not from a distance anyway. so then really am i looking […]

sadly it has been rather too long since i was last here, my ideas have been moving along, then got stuck, then i got too busy. poor excuse i know. after the last post i suddenly realised that all i was actually achieving was to organise people, and that whilst its a NICE idea it […]

crikey – didn’t appreciate how long it had been since last blog! the ideas are moving forward. initially there were two clear strands; the dead tree diaries and the noise interaction at galleries (specifically around young children) each one was progressing with the dead tree focusing around just the imagery they create in their pure […]

really not getting anywhere with this tree idea, still just writing ideas down, like a 3ft knitted entity, or covering the entrance up the stairs at walsall art gallery with a huge tree trunk, or getting people to bring in branches and constructing a tree as the week progresses, but nothing really *FAB*. nothing that […]

found 8 more dead trees today – happy days! just got to recruit my husband to take me out on the back of his motorbike so i can do countryside paparazzi style photos as none of them where anywhere near places you could park a car!! will have to practice taking photos through a helmet! […]