lifes journey

This Blog space is one of the few places now that I feel any space from the internet, all other sites seem to have been overtaken by people, the numbers visiting the website and accessing the studio cam has gone up to over 4000 visitors, my facebook site has shot up from 72, where it has comfortably sat for the past few years, to over 400, for me this is far too much to be able to communicate on a personal basis. The influx of people on facebook seems to be from three specific areas, writers, dance groups and the visual arts, both individuals and groups, whatever it is that I am doing must be doing something I ponder, though what it is that I am doing I am not entirely sure, as the saying goes, if it aint broke, dont fix it! currently my diary is wonderfully empty between now and 2011 meaning that between now and November I can concentrate fully on the 'warriors walk' installation that I am planning for Rememberance Week It is planned to create two sets of cards, a small photo...

All will become clear in time, bear with me and all good things come to those who work.

a blog of............ ponderance I suppose, for no other reason than it is 3.55am . The warriors cards, for I have no other name for them, are slowly filling a box that I made some months ago for exhibiting found objects, while the cards fit the dimensions of the box exactly the found objects were quickly removed to make way for something more important, from this week forward the guys at www.Forthefallen.com/ keep me informed when there is sad news from Afghanistan to ensure that the cards are fully upto date by rememberance day, check out their site to see the full and up to date list of warriors killed at work. That is the way it seems in many aspects of my life at the moment, continuation in some areas, discontinuation in others and whatever is left sits on the back burner, such as my slowly growing collection of boxes, there for another time another place. the most marked area of movement is my creative output, the heavily layered paintworks now form a complete series and cease to...

It would seem a little early to be thinking of something that is still some months away however, while out surveying the site of an installation I saw a bandsman, in full uniform and carrying his boxed instrument either returning from or going to his evening practice of which I am sure included some reference to the parade, no, it is not too early to start plans. It was not the time left that prompted my start on this next project however but the increased news reports that bring us the now constant news of a hero who has been killed, a hero who is being repatriated or one who will be sent on his final journey surrounded by distraught family and friends, I make no secret each year that, even without constant reminder my mind clicks a switch and from that moment onward it is about me fighting with my own memories and mental health concerns so that I am able to continue to function in the best possible way without needing to have my medication increased and still able to create a suitab...

All of these images are 10 x 23 centimeter acrylic on canvases, hand prepared and primed and mounted on bespoke 3/4inch plyboard, in as much as I like to refer to my work in weight that is usually in relation to the amount of paint for these however the board was necessary to support the paintings themselves, each depict a part of town in the way I feel it, ok so I lied, there are a few words but not too many. Top Left Waterside Top Right Market square Below Pillars and Posts I and II