40 exhibitions in a year: exhibition number one •  THE NEW LINE: WORKS FROM THE JOBBING PRINTING COLLECTION at the De La Warr pavilion Bexhill

Tom Eckersley Barnett Freedman Dora Batty Maurice Beck Edward McKnight Kauffer Herbert Matter John Piper Theyre Lee-Elliott Raymond McGrath Oliver Cox Serge Chermayeff Blair Hughes Stanton Clifford & Rosemary Ellis Paul Nash Graham Sutherland            https://www.dlwp.com/exhibition/new-line-works-jobbing-printing-collection/  

abstract expressionism: Royal Academy

image from google search ad reinhardt ‘black & white’   ‘black on grey’ david smith ‘blackburn song of an irish man’ barnett newman ‘eve’ david smith ‘hudson river’ lee krasner ‘untitled’ barnett newman ‘midnight blue’ arshile gorky ‘nightime’ jackson pollock ‘no 4 1949’ ‘no20 1950’ ‘number 7 1950’ ‘phosphoresence’ barnett newman ‘profile of light’ barnett […]

start again……

I don’t know how but I ended up looking back at the blog I’d originally written in 2012, which followed both a new body of work and a first step into blogging, but it made me realise how much I benefitted from recording my thoughts. While I was doing my MA my blog writing did […]

Jerwood Gallery: 100 British Artists

I had been following the Jerwood instagram and facebook feed, and just by chance I happened to be in Hastings on the first day of the show opening. I hadn’t appreciated it would be from only the Jerwood and Ingram collections, and as such I didn’t expect what I found. There were a few pieces I […]

BCTF London fellow makers

I am always inspired and rejuvenated by seeing fellow makers and their wonderful wares. It’s good to feel challenged but also uplifted by the quality and variety out there. Everyone does genuinely have their own style and it’s great to see how this turns out when translated into a physical form. So here is a […]

BCTF London 2016

From the 11-13 September we attended the BCTF trade fair this time in London’s Brick Lane. Over the summer months I had made a concerted effort to revamp a lot of elements of the business, and my display was a key part of this.  I’m really pleased how it worked out, it felt a lot […]