The exhibition is up and I had quite a few visitors yesterday, including my ex-tutor and friend Becky. We discussed my work at some length and in particular why I didn’t have a statement about my work. I had written one but then got in conversation with a gallery owner who’s of the opinion that Read More …

In my last blog post I had realised I didn’t need to paint over the photos, but I also came to realise that monochrome not only eradicated the pull of a bright blue sky over a grey one it helped to pull focus towards looking at the two realities, despite being indoors the photo looks Read More …

Okay, so life as a newly graduated artist has been fraught with all kinds of doubt, self doubt, doubt about the art industry, doubt about fine art, all in all incapacitating doubt! Meanwhile I have continued a trickle of work, work which has grown into something I am pretty pleased with. This blog post is Read More …

I’ve taken 19 photos of my reality of nature, had them printed on A3 a college photocopier, bad bad quality; Ordered them from an online company A3 silky paper; the ink comes through the paint. I also think there’s a scale issue with some of the images, in that the photos work better if they Read More …

Last Friday, January 20 2017, I went to the Towner gallery to see Towards Night exhibition and to hear the artist and curator Tom Hammick talk about how and why the exhibition came together. The paintings and prints had been selected on the theme of dusk and night time. For me there was something very Read More …