Image: HEAVY DUTY. Labels Series. 2010. Mixed Media Collage on Card. HEAVY DUTY. How many of you have amassed a huge pile of rubbish, destined for the local recycling centre during this lockdown? I expect more than a few. Over the weekend I visited my local centre three times, I was turned away twice due…
Image: ABOVE AND BEYOND. Watercolour on Handmade Paper. 2014. Private Collection Devon. ABOVE AND BEYOND. This post is for those who have gone the extra mile, have gone above and beyond what is expected. Those who have volunteered to help where no help has been available, those who have carried on regardless, despite the risks…
Image: LITTLE BOY LOST. Mixed Media on Canvas. 40 x 40 cm. 2017 LITTLE BOY LOST. It is tempting to focus this blog on the breaking news about Dominic Cummings, even though for the Government it is the equivalent of ‘ Don’t mention the war’. Though not specifically related to the enfolding, and I expect…
Image: A BAG FOR LIFE. Mixed Media on Canvas. 153 x 122 x 3.5 cm. 2019. A BAG FOR LIFE. During this crisis the Co2 emissions around the world have plummeted to 2006 Levels. Our countryside has returned to nature, our skies are clearer of air traffic, our roads less busy, our air quality improved.…
Image: 007. Mixed Media Assemblage. THE SPY WHO CAME IN FROM THE COVID WARD. From Bill Gates to 5G to Trump’s accusations of Chinese skullduggery, conspiracy theories have escalated during the pandemic. In a previous blog I discussed the thorny issue of privacy concerns regarding tracing apps. Big brother is getting bigger and 007…
Image: Working in the Studio/workshop. Devon. 20/05/2020. CREATIVITY. Creativity is fundamental to the well being of society, a tool by which we communicate and share the pain and joy of the human condition. Many important artistic businesses and institutions, large and small, are under threat due to the economic consequences of the pandemic; to give…
Image: THINKING OF YOU. Mixed Media on Card. 15 x 15 cm. 2011. Dementia is a condition that affects so many, when memories have faded and time seems a mixture of confusing and disturbing recollections which come and go in misty waves on threads so thin they break as soon as they appear. It comes…
Image: RED RUM. Mixed Media in Canvas. 61 x 61 x 2 cm. 2015. LADY LUCK. As Europe is cautiously coming out of lockdown comparisons are inevitable, many experts feel that the UK was too slow to react which has led to one of the largest death tolls in the world. Looking at some of…
Image. Front cover, handmade. card. 2009. JUST REMEMBER. For years now I have been sending poems on handmade cards to my children and members of my family. This one was sent to my daughter to wish her good luck when she was taking her final exams as a doctor. At every juncture in our lives…
Image: MOON OVER ANTUGNAC. Mixed Media on Canvas. 60 x 60 x 4 cm. 2016. Private Collection. TRAVEL. Yesterday I had a Zoom interview with Julie Brandon from the Artizan Gallery in Torquay. As one of her longstanding stable of artists, interviews are a lockdown initiative enabling artists to be a feature on the galleries…
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