A Busy Year

Time flies, so they say, when your having fun.  Another year has passed and I have been busy both in my personal and professional life, the household has increased by one, the family has increased by one, the cat has increased in size and the sculptures have grown.

In addition to all of this I have taken over the role of 'arts facilitator' for The Josefina de Vasconcellos Arts Care Trust, a charity that strives to bring art as a means of change to the lives of individuals seeking change.  Since taking on the role there have been exhibitions by 1 emerging artist and 4 others each on a monthly turnaround, the Josefina Gallery is now booked up until February with only three more to go before the end of the year group show
There are for sure a lot of happy faces as a result notwithstanding a great collection of work and effort from all those artist contributing.
this has all been a huge learning curve for me, the arrangement the organising and the PR side have been on a much grander scale than I have managed before, I am always easier able to promote others than myself and this has been apparent in my output.
From the perspective of my own work it has been a balancing act between interests and necessities outside of work and the responsibility to my own practice, slow but sure wins the race but.... even if sculpture work does take a little longer I should have hoped to have completed a little more than I have.
In saying that, where I have lacked in quantity I have more than made up in quality, bringing all of the lessons over the past two years together I have the foundations now to continue with 5 large pieces over the coming 12 Months.



 With 2015 a matter of weeks away I have a trip to Bristol to visit my sister, estranged for 40 years, this is my second trip and one that I am looking forward to as much as the first, the biggest surprise for me however was the changes in the landscape.
The last time I travelled the West Coast Line via Birmingham and Wolverhampton it was a very different journey, there were no burned and bombed out buildings on this trip and the cities were a far cry from my memory, as was Bristol, the changes were just too great for me to even quantify in words I was, in essence, in a city that was as different as if I had never been there before, how things change when you take a few decades out of your life!!!



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