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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

The work I am making for the Neither Use Nor Ornament exhibition bears only a passing resemblance to the work I originally proposed for...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

This week I have been concentrating on making work for the Art Language Location Festival, taking place in Cambridge in October. My work,...

Being left-handed in a predominantly right-handed world has its challenges and with the added problem of a right hand with little feeling...

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...

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...

Over the years I have come to realise that a common thread that runs through my work is contrast, contradiction and perhaps the more...