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I heard a few days ago that my application to present a paper on my work, with a focus on women and animals, has been unanimously approved. It will be held at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi – India. I now have to work hard to see if can raise the funds to go… but […]

The first two days (you choose one!) will be on Monday 22nd, 11 – 3pm, and Tuesday 23rd September, 10 – 2pm. As the Course develops we will be looking at a wide range of paths in to making work and responding to the above themes, including using Dream recall, responding with monotype and automatic […]

I was very pleased to hear a couple of days ago that this work has been selected for a feature in EarthLines magazine: http://www.earthlines.org.uk EarthLines on Facebook EarthLines on Twitter http://reenchantingtheearth.com

I was thrilled to hear this morning that this painting, the Bird My Brother, has been selected for this show.     Here are some pictures from my talk at Arusha Gallery (Edinburgh) last Sunday:   I spoke about how I need to be awake and attentive in my working practice. How I need to […]

I had a very enthusiastic and generous group at Newlyn School of Art (run by Henry Garfit). I did a demonstration on making gesso and preparing paper and wood panels with it, then we did exercises using the breath and bodily impulses to generate images for development. We worked with subtle and faint traces of […]

So I am home to the brilliant light, the warm air, the soft water. Thinking about my talk on 24th august in Edinburgh, preparing myself, drawing out the threads which I will develop, and hoping for a receptive audience. The sun is shining, the garden is still full, although here and there collapse is beginning, […]

Offering into my blazing gaze a trickle, a trace, a leaking from a containment. So I contain, I hold within all the forces which will not be soothed. No one comes to soothe. I am as a child again, there is no soothing, I do not learn to soothe myself. I turn to animals for […]

  I’ve never been to Edinburgh so I am very excited to see and explore. I’d like to see the Chinese cicadas as well as visiting the collections in the major spaces. Here are some pictures of recent work which will be going to Edinburgh:    

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 […]

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 […]