Something beautiful happened this morning in Starbucks. I sat down for my first medium soya cappuccino of Easter and a woman came to sit between me and the window. She was texting- we didn’t ever make contact but we both were enjoying the music- I found my foot tapping and I looked across to see her [...]

 I’m the kind of artist who likes to work outside in the landscape and who welcomes the participation of the weather in my work- rather more than people participation. Last week, however I was using decorators’ brushes on long sticks in big pots of household emulson paint on door size panels in front of an audience. I was [...]

I’m preparing for a show which is going to contain mainly work made reasonably local to me in Charmouth near Lyme Regis. Though that you might like a glimpse via the pages of a book I’ve just put together. The show starts on 26 March and continues until 25 April – just incase any of [...]

I’d been walking along the stretch of beach between Charmouth and Golden Cap in Dorset looking for fossils as I went- and saw none. Then I stopped to do a painting and as I cast my eye on the sand around me I began to notice tiny and finely preserved fragments of fossilised pyritised shells. [...]

You can probably guess from the way Antarctica and ‘Frozen Orchestras’ have cropped up over the space of this blog that I get excited at extremes of weather- and I just love snow. I know all about the difficulties that it presents but still find myself outside in it as much as I possibly can [...]

ARTLAB Residency at KUBE Poole. Last December, Cathy Stevens, Udo Dzierzanowski and myself were given four days to explore the ways we could work together- me with my artists’ tools and they with their musical instruments and computer. We had collaborated before but we had never had the luxury of four open days to play. [...]

I have been renting a lodge in the NW Highlands of Scotland- infact I’ve rented the same lodge to use as a studio space for a week for the last 3 years. Each year something memorable stands out. First it was stags bellowing unseen in the surrounding moutains. Then it was rainbows and cuckoos (I [...]

Tracey Emin RA is showing at the moment in the Sir Hugh Casson room at The Royal Academy. As I’m sure most of you know ‘Friends’ of The Royal Academy are allowed to use the cafe and restaurant there. I am not a ‘Friend’ but I wanted to see the exhibition and asked to be [...]

ANOTHER LOAD OFF YOUR MIND I have just been over to Bill my accountant to leave with him my paperwork for April 2009-2010. It has taken me ages to get to this point….and I’m mightily relieved because I had a dreadful rush last year and I loath doing it because anything to do with numbers [...]