Jan 43 minA bit of a round up of 2021 and what is coming nextAs usual I am going into the New Year with the plan to juggle multiple projects. The past year has been challenging in many ways and two...
Jul 29, 20212 minA sigh of relief and a very deep breathToday feels significant. Since last year I have been looking at the photographs I took of my Mum’s flower arrangements either on my phone...
Jul 25, 20212 minPrinting Clarice’s DiaryThis week was my first research trip outside Thanet since January 2020 and what a trip it was. John McKiernan, Graham Klyne and I visited...
Apr 11, 20202 minA Flower Arrangement In Every RoomWorking from photos has been a big part of my practise for many years, but they are normally old photos and primarily from my family...
Apr 3, 20202 minMaking ArrangementsIt is two years ago now that I cleared my Mum’s home after her move to a Care Home and ‘Making Arrangements’ is a response to this time,...
Nov 20, 20193 minTearing my hair outA recent blog post by artist Kate Murdoch has made me revisit my own blog and now, looking back, I realise I never finished writing this...
Feb 21, 20191 minTime is a Healer part 1Time is a Healer is a new body of work responding to ideas around loss through war and conflict and inherited trauma. The ideas have come...
Feb 21, 20195 minTo live in hearts of those we love is not to die – Time is a healer part 2To live in hearts of those we love is not to die Whilst researching and developing the work for Neither Use Nor Ornament exhibition I...
Feb 3, 20192 minThe Printmaker In MeThe work I am making for the Neither Use Nor Ornament exhibition bears only a passing resemblance to the work I originally proposed for...
Jan 21, 20193 minEmpty ClocksI have been looking back on old blog posts today and realise I haven’t written anything on this blog for a while. Much of my focus over...
Apr 29, 20181 minOver on my other blogThose who follow this blog may have been aware that I haven’t written on here for a while. This is mainly because I am writing on another...
Mar 21, 20182 minvying for attention and shouting ‘me! me!’I have only written 4 blog posts on here in the past year. it seems a poor effort but in my defence I have been working on multiple...
Oct 26, 20171 min100 poppiesThe past few weeks have been spent writing funding applications for stage 2 of From Wasteland to Wasteland and from today it is 100 days...
Jul 29, 20171 minAn Extraordinary Pocket DictionaryNot a blog post as such; more a note so that I don’t forget about this little book. This week I discovered that William served during WW1...
Feb 21, 20172 minAn enticement even, to lure you in.I am about to embark on a new project. It’s exciting. It’s a little scary. It’s funded by Arts Council England – yay, and I will be...
Jul 20, 20161 minShe never mentions tea againThis week I have been concentrating on making work for the Art Language Location Festival, taking place in Cambridge in October. My work,...
Jul 12, 20163 minA left handed composing stickBeing left-handed in a predominantly right-handed world has its challenges and with the added problem of a right hand with little feeling...
Jun 1, 20162 minDiscovering treasureLast autumn Dan Thompson contacted me to do a bit of printing for him. He had been given (or maybe loaned) some old half tone plates of...
May 27, 20162 minStart the PressThe beginning of a new project and I feel I should stress this is not the end of Clarice, but a project that I will be working on...
Mar 7, 20163 minThis may seem a strange request, but I am an artist and…..Over the years I have come to realise that a common thread that runs through my work is contrast, contradiction and perhaps the more...