I don’t know if it is me getting older or the sands of time have speeded up but I just don’t know where the time goes these days. This time last week Mrs O and I were in Leeds, a wetter than wet Leeds even though in the past I have seen the Aire so […]
Swaffham Visual Arts Festival & a potential new location for Alec Soth
On Trafalgar Day, also Mrs O’s birthday, dry rot discovery day, graduation day and now Swaffham Visual Arts Festival day I motored up to Swaffham with Mrs O through Thetford Forest. It was a wonderfully bleak drive through persistent drizzle that made for stunning autumnal colours. These days are rare and to be cherished. We […]
From Here to There
The last few weeks have been hectic since we got back from our Northumberland jaunt. I had to get started on preparing my presentation for the Swaffham Visual Arts Festival, shoot the Agile Business Conference and Mrs O had to put the final pieces in place for her mother’s affairs. The sunny week we had […]
I am not a pack animal
I have been taking a break this past week. I knew where we were going and also that it would be more or less radio silence but I was surprised at the almost total lack of service from Vodafone which was refreshing but I could not even text or call Mrs O whilst I went […]
The time has come
Ever since April came and went I have been yearning for September. I tend not to make too many images during the summer months, I do make some but not to the same extent. Anyway, tidying my workshop up ready to re-erect my temporary dark room was a job I had been putting off for […]
VJ Day, a Mimosa tree and Cattawade
It is a strange thing how our paths cross and our life stories intertwine. Little did I know that being requested to make an image of a Mimosa tree in all it’s tutu-like splendour, would I find a connection to Edgelands. I was asked to make this image by an ex-colleague of Mrs O who […]
Open critique with Kate Jackson and others
Last night, I took part in an open critique at Smiths Row with Kate Jackson, artist-in-residence and other artists, Deborah Pipe and Vicky West. The critique was chaired by Natalie Pace. This event was scheduled as a part of Kate’s residency, the first of which Smiths Row has had. I met Kate for the first […]
A time of reflection
Much has happened in the last three weeks. Twelve months of graft came to a head with the opening of Edgelands where all manner of people from my current and past lives met for two hours in what an artist neighbour described to me today as a very good atmosphere, then melted away again. I […]
A three legged dog and Light in a Material World
Yesterday morning I met Mrs O in town after she had seen to some of her mother’s affairs. On the ay home up St Peters Street she remarked upon seeing Robin come out of his gallery with a three legged dog. I was going in there any way to see Beryl Scott’s lino cuts so […]
And so it comes to this
Today has been a full on day. It started with emptying Mrs O’s mum’s effects from her room at the care home. It seemed rather weird given that we rolled up in the same car that I used to take her in on that dreadfully wet December evening. All she had with her that night […]