lifes journey

Witth the minatures finalised comes the problem of mounting and exhibiting in the best possible way. I have tried to bevel the edges however the outcome was a disaster leaving me with little choice other than to trim the edges straight, though the trimming was less than a quarter of a millimetre on all sides the scale of the images meant that this was a substantial amount to lose, even trying to square the pieces off was a challenge in itself, once again down to the simple fact that each piece is tiny, the smallest being less than 2cm square, however alls well that ends well as they say. Still the wrestle with the boards that they will be mounted on continues, having now established dimensions that I am happy with with regard to the overall size, 13 x 10cm, I am grappling with the content; with the original boards being divided equally in half there was insufficient content to express the whole point of the exhibition, that being to highlite the taking over and pushing into the histo...

There comes a point when in preparation for an exhibition that the time remaining changes from Months Away to a conscious change into Weeks Away , that time has now come and decisions have to be made toward the actual content of the Exhibition. That time is now, with the decision of what to start working on now made it is time to start preparing the canvases and exhibits. The show on this occasion is about the old town and the slow but sure take over of modernity, while the tourist related committees and groups, such as the Town Council and Civic Society struggle to promote the town as of being of historic interest, new hoardings asking those who visit to 'explore K endal', Hundreds of thousands of pounds spent on renovation and rebuilding of the towns infrastructure such as pavements, lighting and seating in historic mode, there are those who work equally hard to bring Kendal into the 21st Century with modernity, shop signage of advertising and marketing. The work that I will ...

There is something about 'minature', that is absolutely magical, I dont know what the psycho/sociologists would have to say about the draw to tiny things. To me perhaps it, in someways, epitomises the attention to detail by its creator; In retrospect I started the trail of minatures some years ago when moving into yet 'another' residence in my nomadic life and finding on the doorstep a single piece of mail that was not a long and outstanding bill due by the escaping last resident, an assumption made following the paper trail from an initial and polite request for first payment all the way through to summons for arrest, however, my fascination was immediately captured and fixed a point in time from which my near future was in my mind This piece of of mail was to me of more importance than the rest of the mail and its associations, (but by the Grace of God go I) . It was a catologue, The Dolls House Emporium, absolutely filled with the tiniest and perfect pieces of furn...

Whereas my personal works are getting larger (my latest work measuring 55 x 33 inches entitled 'shimmer') the works for my up and coming exhibition in September have gone in completely the opposite direction. I had this fascinating idea to be able to carry an entire exhibition in a single suitcase, the works therefore have to be smaller, much smaller, so many times I have walked backwards and forwards between studio and exhibition space that it is time to start to take life easy. There was much too'ing and fro'ing while deciding on the exhibition theme, with the exhibition being local I wanted to keep the theme local; setting off on my normal explorations around the town I was now seeking a direction and purpose to my wanderings other than personal satisfaction, therein however I found a problem. The town is huge historically with a building of significance at every turn, if this was not enough the current situation is one of growth with new projects springing up everyw...