Please share this wonderful and fantastic poem! No-one likes an angry poet. Next Tuesday what with the weather being lousy and the nights drawing in and the rent being due and the electricity bill hitting the floor and going through the roof at the same time and feeling in need of a mid-morning pick me up to shore up my…
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Florence Mine
Have stepped into the unknown by luckily getting onto a course that will move me into a yet more digital format, chasing out any lingering Luddite cobwebs… Florence Mine in Egremont is the location, Signal Films the provider and Sam Meech the teacher/mentor. Our first session had us admiring the red rusty redundant mine buildings whilst trying to film in…
Looking for a way forward
A Little Stream near Ambleside I did this last night and it set me thinking about what it is we try to do when we make a painting or drawing. What are we aiming for? How do we choose what to depict? What are we trying to “say”, if anything? I was walking the dogs past a little stream we…
Shh. That time of year cards…
It’s only October – but thinking ahead and here is the beginning of two things. Firstly, one of my Christmas Card designs (although you wont find this wee chap anywhere else as he has been exquisitely hand-made by the eagle-sighted Gavin Pollock) and secondly the start of a new joint project involving the Wee Folk, henceforth known as the La’l…
The Big Draw
The Big Draw has started in Cumbria! It’s actually started everywhere as it is a national event, taking place every October. There are several events across Cumbria, taking place in schools, village halls, museums, outdoor centres, libraries and even an aquarium! I only wish I could attend them all! Penrith has Eden Arts using the Soup Shop in the Devonshire…
“What’s so Special About Him Dad?”
Constantly writing applications is the lot of just about any of us these days. It’s hard, but each one has to be treated new with all the effort of the previous one. I decided with my “latest”, to make it a little different and made a comic using a great programme called Comic Life So this is one of the…
The Digital Age is Supposed to Free Us?
Before I throw the paptop out the window – with its frustrating internet…and deeply frustrating websites, I need to consider that…long, so sadly, long ago, in the days of paper (going all Luddite now) I would have been able to sort out this information I wanted in less than five minutes by simply opening the (actual – not virtual) file…
C-Art has begun!
Just a selection of my work that is here. I do have all sorts as I’m a bit of a Jack Butterfly; always trying new ways of saying what I want to say. Theres no rule is there, that says an artist has to stay in one discipline? Or even one art form? I think some people won’t take you…
The Big Draw
A Jersey cow drawn in the technique taught to me several years ago, by the inspiring Lesley Humphries. This is another incomplete piece, drawn in April, more of a demonstration as I was passing on this method to adults in a workshop at the Highhead Gallery I will be doing another there as part of C-Art, date to follow very…
Pendants
A loooong trip this weekend from Cumbria to Newmarket, Suffolk to attend an event for the benefits of the youngstock, cousins and equally obsessed youngstock friend…the UHH Hullabaloo. In ordinary mortal Parlance (whispers) a model horse convention… but it’s good they have a hobby! So I took a break from preparing for C-Art, Cumbria’s Open Studio event, to make a…