I’ve just delivered a new stash of work to Tincleton Gallery in Tincleton, Dorset (nr Dorchester), including one large tissue monoprint, and some of my series- ‘Beacon Hill’ and ‘Winter, Cotswolds’ as well as lots of unframed pieces. The autumn exhibition opens with a Private View on Friday 9th September 6-8pm and continues until Friday […]
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A new film about Eric Ravilious shows his joy, and his wife’s despair, during wartime. I was lucky enough to go to a viewing of ‘Eric Ravilious: Drawn To War’, a new documentary directed by Margy Kinmouth and released in cinemas in July. It features contributions from Ai Weiwei, Alan Bennett, Grayson Perry and Robert
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There are different schools of thought. More than 2 months to become automatic. 66 days is the received wisdom (backed up by science), though it can vary widely depending on behaviour and circumstances. One study found it took anything from 18-254 days for people to form new habits. And what happens to the brain and
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After a 2 year hiatus, South Bristol Arts Trail is back in a new seasonal slot. Normally a Spring thing, because of various circumstances, it has moved to September this year. Expect a couple of days of art, workshops, music, community and fun- all within a mile radius of the river. I’m going to open
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A chance encounter at Printfest in April has led to my work now being stocked at Cambridge Contemporary Art, which I’m immensely pleased about. I haven’t been able to visit the gallery yet, but I certainly admire all of their other artists- so I take that as a good sign! I’ve just sent a selection
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I’m going a bit deep with this one. It started in December with me stealing my husband’s Christmas present (before he’d read it)- Oliver Burkeman’s ‘4000 Weeks: Time and How to Use It’ and is continuing with Tara McMullin’s excellent podcasts and essays, via my favourites Wendell Berry and Michel de Montaigne. Actually no. It
Of late, the Arnolfini art centre in Bristol, has been hosting some brilliant exhibitions- contemporary, yet accessible. Their Paula Rego print show is no exception. ‘Paula Rego: Subversive Stories’ showcases the print output of Dame Paula Rego RA, from her days at the Slade in the 1950’s, all the way through to her current work
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The vernal equinox has just passed here in England. It doesn’t quite align with Easter, or the ‘start of spring’ (ie 1st March), or in fact my marker of Spring arriving (which is the first day I really feel the warmth of the sun on my skin- sometimes February, sometimes April). But it is a
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Helen Frakenthaler, once the queen of abstract expressionism, in a world of big male egos, also made floatingly beautiful woodcut prints alongside her large scale, stained canvases. Dulwich Picture Gallery continues it’s run of excellent exhibitions with ‘Radical Beauty’, it’s survey of not only Frankenthaler’s prints, but also how she made them. I visited recently
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