To be dead and still living
I made my death mask . It’s not completely accurate as the face falls back when laying down changing the physiognomy. I am also not dead or sick. The process
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Fragmentation
I have cast small parts of things I have gathered. They are a little like a magpies selection of attractive parts that hold significance to me. Included are a Greek
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Personal archeology
These are my fingertips ( porcelain casts of) extremely fragile. They look eroded because I made a slip with discarded porcelain . They barely formed the fingers or survived being
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I know I know I know
My art practice is truly diverse . I work intuitively and I’m content to have several areas of work progressing simultaneously. What started as a survival strategy , tucking different
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The Great Collectors
There are a few reasons why I have set myself a portrait painting challenge. It’s a good excercise to paint from life. Observational work feeds all areas of my practice.
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Meanwhile I carve stone
Stone carving is the slower practise I employ and it runs on alongside everything else. It is arguably the most intentional as it’s the hardest ( literally) media to manipulate
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London Potters Article
I have felt a bit fraudulent being part of London Potters , I don’t see myself as a potter, and more importantly I don’t have access to the level of
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When the time comes
I have been working on this stone since September. It is a gravestone and it’s my gravestone. It’s been part of my grieving process since my parents died. Strange things
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My Eulogy
This won’t be the last art I make or the last thing I say about death but I am thinking less about death after a nourishing spell in Greece or
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Stone can withstand the force of me
This was my second carving and in my naivety I imagined I could carve a head in two days. The limestone was tricky it had been outside so had a
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October in Greece
To paint outside plein air I need to feel secure. In the UK I experience bouts of what I decided to call ‘existential loneliness’. The outside world can feel like
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S T O N E. L O V E
Continuing my adventures into carving I have been working on a piece of limestone, blessed at Canterbury Cathedral with the sculptor Donna Fleming at her studio in Ramsgate. The piece
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