Risk taking and chance in painting

Risk taking and chance in painting

Lots of new research and writing – some of it quite short! Here I look at perfection  – or the intentional lack of it. I am currently examining aesthetics in my practice, and its unexpected twists.  For writing about risk taking go to:...
Metaphysical positions

Metaphysical positions

Using gesture in figurative painting, the movement of the body expresses an idea or meaning. Metaphysics is a branch of philosophy that deals with abstract concepts of being, knowing, identity, time and space. It is about the fundamental nature of reality. Our reality...
Road trip to Mull

Road trip to Mull

Having driven my old citroen C15 van up to Mull from Penzance (and it made it!) I am working in ceramics in the studio here. It was such an adventure to visit Brighton, Tunbridge Wells, Leeds, Carlisle, and Glasgow on the way up. Lots of inspiring art and...
Studio hours

Studio hours

Lots more exciting work happening at 20 Bread St., Penzance. Working long hours to produce new bitumen drip paintings with colour, small ceramic assemblage work and sculpture, and developing some new larger works. Very much inspired by my trip to London and Middlesex...
Theatre of the Self

Theatre of the Self

Score: 30 diaries (1977-2007) 30 days (not consecutive) Each day read a diary, save something, burn the rest. From the age of 14, I wrote almost a daily diary or journal. I started this conceptual project last month, and finish on average two diaries a week. I am...
Bear-hemian Rhapsody

Bear-hemian Rhapsody

On 1st April 2017, Habs Art, Manchester took us at our word and commissioned a piece for Haphazard 2017, which involved a bear, sax and accordion playing, wall building, knocking walls down and a version of Bohemian Rhapsody that is not entirely to be taken seriously....