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In January I’ll be returning to Iona, to Lagandorain and the Hostel, for another three weeks: time to tune in and focus on the beauty and clarity of the place. I’m aiming to make drawings, writing, monotypes, small paintings and a stop-frame animation of the monotypes as they develop. I’ll be working listening to Bach […]

The Trembling Brink of Transformation?… a report on my residency by John Maclean, owner of Ionaartresidencies…. Kate Walters left today having completed her four week residency at Iona Hostel. The good news is that she is coming back in January for another month or so. Yesterday we held an open studio in the Hostel so […]

ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE The beauty of the Artist in Residence (AIR) is that no residency is the same. Organisation and artist come together in collaboration to form a new and special relationship where the artist works outside their usual studio space, wearing their hearts on their sleeves and sharing their most intimate creative processes with […]

Tim Ridley is putting together an exhibition of painting, drawing and assemblages ‘humanimal’, funded by an Arts Council England grant, will be from the 4th to the 13th of December at the PZ gallery, 7 Coinagehall St, Penzance TR18 4AY. The work will explore our relations with animals in a time when we face the […]

I’ve been working quietly enjoying the sense of the the garden taking a long last  breath before the quietening of autumn. In the studio the light is lower through the windows, and I am listening again to Van Morrison’s great album No Guru, No Method, No Teacher. My little dog Frankie is still beneath my […]

During October I’ll travel to Glasgow School of Art to work with the students using my hollow bone technique of tuning in (details in an earlier post, with description by Professor Penny Florence). This is also the way I worked with Marc Almond when I made the original drawings for his current album, the Velvet […]

I entered these works for the Discerning Eye, which is held in The Mall Galleries, London, later in the autumn. Creature of Milk gives Birth was selected – the first image below: Horse Consciousness provides a Cradle   This work is about the correspondences which can occur between the approaching of animal consciousness – with […]

http://www.thenationalopenartcompetition.com/gallery2.php… I’d be very grateful if friends and those who like my work could vote on the National Open Art World vote page for my work Pierced by Love, which came after my beloved Missis Darling died, and then she visited me in a dream, giving me her skin as a gift for vision and […]

In early July I travelled east to Kent, to Romney Marshes, for Jam on the Marsh – a predominately musical event in London and the Romney Marshes. My venue was Fairfield Church. It was a damp morning as I set out across the Marsh seeking the church. I saw it from some way off, a […]

Here is the link to the short review I wrote about Venice, where I made a shamanic intervention in the Arsenale (details in an earlier post). http://internationaltimes.it/a-brief-review-of-opening-week-venice-biennale-may-2015/ The July issue of Earthlines has a great feature on my work and my approach to making it. Here is part of it… Animals make Wings for Mary/Riding […]