News (will be coming soon)!

So have been waiting... and waiting... and waiting...

To be able to tell you the next step for my Rock House Residency. 

And now I finally can!

Except... I have a 'day-job' and I have to go to work now...


Come back? I promise not to keep you waiting so long this time....



In the meantime... here is a mixed media collage what I have been working on. 

Everyone seems to dislike it! 

Except me... 

Sneak Preview...

So before leaving Rock House today I had a quick look at the flats being built on the upper floors.

I have been having a bit of a play with the photographs, muting some colours and adjusting the contrast. See what you think...

To be continued...

So.. I have stepped through the hole for the last time in this residency and have packed up all my things.

Despite being quite miserable in the space sometimes, I am really going to miss the space. So I am in talks with Kate (director of the New Independent Art School Hastings http://www.niash.org/) about hopefully continuing working within Rock House in some way... fingers crossed.

For those who couldn't make the exhibition here are the main pieces of work that I created whilst there. I mostly consider them works in progress. But some are more finished than others.

N.B I struggled to maintain the blog whilst in the space as I couldn't blog from my mobile phone (I have terribly fat fingers!) 

But I kept notes whilst in there and I plan to write these notes up and post retrospectively. So give me a few days and these will slowly appear.

Many thanks to all those who came along to the show or supported me via the internet. Being an artist can be a terribly lonely business so thank you for stopping me from feeling like I am just shouting into a void!

To be continued...

Have started residing!

I have started residing in the Art School! I managed to get in early to give me a chance to settle... which is just as well.. I took residence yesterday and was frankly miserable! 

When I planned this residency I imagined it would be warm and bright in the space. I imagined taking breaks on a sunny fire escape and working with window wide open. I worried that I have no painting clothes cool enough for summer!

But how horrible is this weather?! 

I suffer from seasonal affective disorder and so really struggle with bad weather. And with so little sunlight the space is a teeny bit too dark to paint in for me. So was a bit forlorn yesterday.

Today I bought a light... who I have named... and once he was up it perked me up no end. (Though I admit I nearly cried trying to put him together without a screw driver and spanner!)

Now I just have to create some work.. wish me luck? :)

Having a play with ideas...

Am strangely excited by the hole in the wall at the Art School (made by Kate Renwick).

Think it is likely to have a big influence on the work produced whilst in the space... Am finally using circles in my work!

Starting to play with images.

I have started to play with my photographs of Rock House Art School. Two weeks in a residency is such a short amount of time, I want to hit the ground running. 

(Plus, I truly am scared that I won't come up with any ideas when I am in situ and will just spend two weeks weeping and rocking... weeping and rocking...)

Wandering... Pondering...

Been having a wander around outside the Rock House building, having a ponder what to paint whilst I am inside on my residency. 

Still don't really know. 

This is getting a teeny bit scary...

Article from Hastings Independent Press 

http://www.meanwhilespace.com/projects/current/rock-house/

Playing with flyer