First let me warn all my readers that the exhibition space Abbot’s Hall where Edgelands is showing is now on low season opening times. That is Tuesday-Saturday. Note NOT SUNDAY. We spent a few days in Southwold for the Ways with Words event and boy, was it wet and windy affair or what. That is […]
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 […]
Autumn seems to have arrived a tad early
This week has been full on already. Monday was a plumbing day. I have learned over the years not to start such jobs on a Sunday as there is always some gizmo or part that requires a trip to a proper plumbers merchant. We lasted all of last winter with a dodgy radiator valve in […]
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 […]
Busy times
My, how times fly. It only seems like yesterday that Edgelands opened but 6 weeks have elapsed and all the events in between seem somewhat unreal. Last week saw me back to my old trade working in London. I was so grateful for the dodgy weather as it made teaching that much easier. I wondered […]
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 […]