Art Vend

There have been various art vending machine projects. Oriel Wrecsam have run with the Woolgather of Leeds Vend project model…. “Woolgather have commissioned new works from artists across the UK and are using vending machines to provide a platform for

Art Vend

There have been various art vending machine projects. Oriel Wrecsam have run with the Woolgather of Leeds Vend project model…. “Woolgather have commissioned new works from artists across the UK and are using vending machines to provide a platform for

Thinking about defining myself…

I’m looking at an interesting gallery commission that seeks a disabled artist to help look at creative ways of attracting a wider audience. The selection criteria include that the artist define themselves as a disabled person. I have been thinking

Thinking about defining myself…

I’m looking at an interesting gallery commission that seeks a disabled artist to help look at creative ways of attracting a wider audience. The selection criteria include that the artist define themselves as a disabled person. I have been thinking

Happy 100th Dylan Thomas

A friend told me this weekend that Dylan Thomas might have been an undiagnosed diabetic, his poor health and early death weren’t perhaps due to alcoholism and that the clichéd portrait of bloody minded verbose boozing artist may not tell

Happy 100th Dylan Thomas

A friend told me this weekend that Dylan Thomas might have been an undiagnosed diabetic, his poor health and early death weren’t perhaps due to alcoholism and that the clichéd portrait of bloody minded verbose boozing artist may not tell

A call to designers

When architect Michael Graves became severely disabled one of things he noticed was how ugly many of the bits of kit designed for disabled people are. Now one of Obama’s champions of accessible design, he set about making a series

A call to designers

When architect Michael Graves became severely disabled one of things he noticed was how ugly many of the bits of kit designed for disabled people are. Now one of Obama’s champions of accessible design, he set about making a series

Jumping to Collograph

I am amazed by how long it is taking me to shift from making large screenprints and etchings in a print studio. Part of it is missing a studio that I can get to and part is getting used to

Jumping to Collograph

I am amazed by how long it is taking me to shift from making large screenprints and etchings in a print studio. Part of it is missing a studio that I can get to and part is getting used to

The new version…of nearly everything

Try again. Fail again. Fail better. Samual Beckett would have worked out that the key to writing a blog is to keep writing it. This is my attempt to fail better at writing my blog. Design and printmaking have been

The new version…of nearly everything

Try again. Fail again. Fail better. Samual Beckett would have worked out that the key to writing a blog is to keep writing it. This is my attempt to fail better at writing my blog. Design and printmaking have been

Joined up thinking

I have been working slowly on the Obsession and Repetition project and have a set of plates now that I will print up. They have proofed nicely but I’m keeping them under wraps until the show that Gaynor Perry is

Joined up thinking

I have been working slowly on the Obsession and Repetition project and have a set of plates now that I will print up. They have proofed nicely but I’m keeping them under wraps until the show that Gaynor Perry is

Obsession and Repetition

I have been asked to take part in a show next year with this as the theme… It occured to me that printmaking itself is obsessive and repetitive and that maybe searching for something specific for the show isn’t necessary.

Obsession and Repetition

I have been asked to take part in a show next year with this as the theme… It occured to me that printmaking itself is obsessive and repetitive and that maybe searching for something specific for the show isn’t necessary.

22 May 2012

Thinking about the grazing cows at Attingham, the estate in Harlescott and the dubstep grunge I heard for the first time last week.

22 May 2012

Thinking about the grazing cows at Attingham, the estate in Harlescott and the dubstep grunge I heard for the first time last week.