A bit of a round up of 2021 and what is coming next
As 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...
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- Jul 29, 2021
- 2 min
A sigh of relief and a very deep breath
Today feels significant. Since last year I have been looking at the photographs I took of my Mum’s flower arrangements either on my phone...
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- Jul 25, 2021
- 2 min
Printing Clarice’s Diary
This week was my first research trip outside Thanet since January 2020 and what a trip it was. John McKiernan, Graham Klyne and I visited...
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- Apr 11, 2020
- 2 min
A Flower Arrangement In Every Room
Working from photos has been a big part of my practise for many years, but they are normally old photos and primarily from my family...
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- Apr 3, 2020
- 2 min
Making Arrangements
It 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,...
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- Nov 20, 2019
- 3 min
Tearing my hair out
A 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...
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- Feb 21, 2019
- 1 min
Time is a Healer part 1
Time 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...
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- Feb 21, 2019
- 5 min
To live in hearts of those we love is not to die – Time is a healer part 2
To live in hearts of those we love is not to die Whilst researching and developing the work for Neither Use Nor Ornament exhibition I...
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- Feb 3, 2019
- 2 min
The Printmaker In Me
The work I am making for the Neither Use Nor Ornament exhibition bears only a passing resemblance to the work I originally proposed for...
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- Jan 21, 2019
- 3 min
Empty Clocks
I 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...
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- Apr 29, 2018
- 1 min
Over on my other blog
Those 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...
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- Mar 21, 2018
- 2 min
vying 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...
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- Oct 26, 2017
- 1 min
100 poppies
The past few weeks have been spent writing funding applications for stage 2 of From Wasteland to Wasteland and from today it is 100 days...
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- Jul 29, 2017
- 1 min
An Extraordinary Pocket Dictionary
Not 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...
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- Feb 21, 2017
- 2 min
An 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...
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- Jul 20, 2016
- 1 min
She never mentions tea again
This week I have been concentrating on making work for the Art Language Location Festival, taking place in Cambridge in October. My work,...
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- Jul 12, 2016
- 3 min
A left handed composing stick
Being left-handed in a predominantly right-handed world has its challenges and with the added problem of a right hand with little feeling...
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- Jun 1, 2016
- 2 min
Discovering treasure
Last 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...
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- May 27, 2016
- 2 min
Start the Press
The 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...
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- Mar 7, 2016
- 3 min
This 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...
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