Met with a painter friend (Ian Hinley) last night and we had a great chat about all sorts of aspects of making work. Our approaches are very different, his approach to the problem of painting is both intellectual and technical and importantly he has the hand of freedom so the work can feel loose and […]
This short video interviewing Harold Cohen, particularly the first minute, really resonated and was one of those moments, when a painter says something that expresses an aspect of what you believe too. I was reading Martin Gayford’s How Painting Happens (and why it matters) book and Harold Cohen is in it and tbh the book […]
Thinking this morning about a portrait I’m doing and how I’ve been really questioning “is it any good?”, which is the wrong question but seems so easy to ask and obsess about. My friend Jayne used a phrase last night about having had ‘time on the mat’, experiential knowledge of painting and drawing, as her […]
Between September 2021 & October 2022, Shirethorn house was a meanwhile space in Hull, run by East Street Arts, in an old department store. It was my largest ever studio, will carpet tiles, and a reception and gallery. A small group of us started a weekly drawing session called draw jam, which led to a […]
Before deciding to submit a proposal to do the residency at HARI, I had a conversation with Alex Stubbs about his and my practice and it was significant to notice how he made me reflect on the intention of my work, as he spoke about his in a way it was rooted in both tradition […]
Work was my first solo show. I had been a member of Kingston Art Group (KAG) since 2001 and in 2011, working with others in the group, were successfully awarded some ACE grant funding to move locations, and create a gallery on Humber Street in Hull, which was being redeveloped after the relocation of the […]
