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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R I S O
I’m not a natural printer. I’ve been lucky enough to try etching, silkscreen, lithography, mono-printing and now Riso printing. Thinking in terms of layers blows my mind. I find myself
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The Lost Greek Drawings
When I have studied an artist I see a portfolio of paintings or sculptures. I commit them to memory. Perhaps I’m lucky enough to see them in the real world
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Epiphany number 367
Latest #peisleymemoir book is H O T At art school 1984-89 I wanted to make work that said something about my potency, agency, sexuality, hunger. I made enquiries… looking to
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