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 […]