Really enjoying The Open by Agamben, thinking I must go to Milan to see the miniatures he describes. Wondering how is it that I make the work I do, knowing nothing about this writing, this thinking, and the two are so close in so many ways? Then remembering my childhood and the animal world I […]
Monthly Archives: July 2014
London, and afterwards…looking forwards to Edinburgh….
After a long hot coach journey to Victoria I stepped onto the pavement with my four bags and wondered how I was going to manage to reach Islington. I had my handbag, my rucksack (with clothes for the forecast storms), my portfolio with mounted unframed work and perspex for monotype-making, and my wheeled suitcase full […]
Dreams and Memories drawing workshop at St Ives School of Painting, July 2014…
This workshop, which finishes today, has been a full and intense experience. We’ve worked with dreams, memories, the breath, bodily impulses, the intuition and shamanic walking. A group of eight has come together as one animal, or a flock of birds, to produce something memorable and fine. I have used my drum to help with […]
New essay on my work by Professor Alan Bleakley
Poet and Professor Alan Bleakley has written a wonderful essay on my work. I am very moved by his words, and grateful to him for reflecting on my work so deeply. Kate Walters’ Bodies Without Organs Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari describe a difference between smooth and striated space. Striated space is settled or […]