Dreaming it up … What if?
What if I see art and life, the earth, our children, each personal history, the home and community, our social, national and international contexts, our skies and seas and all of the fabric of being mortal as entirely and inextricably interlinked with one another?...
Some personal thoughts & opinions on “THIS PERSONAL AND THIS PARTICULAR.”
This show took two years to implement. It is exactly a year since the doors closed on the last (1080th?) person who visited it. I can’t know what remains in the people who came to experience it, but I do know that it ‘moved me on’. Looking back this is what I...
New Work
Opening Doors
Artists are supposed to open the doors of the mind and of awareness in new ways and in ways which elude convention so that it is possible for new thoughts (at the edges of perception) to arrive. In this solo retrospective show I have attempted to challenge the...
Art that is “Sacred in Fabric of Profane” – Cape Times, 27 March 2014
“Whorl” for Katherine & Sam
Her universal potter’s wheel, and and stars awhirl beneath her hands. Beyond the glass, the chalky Cliffs of Dover, patient catalogue of protists, ancient tracks and trailing filigree of coccolithophores. High priestess, she kneads these fossil creatures tenderly into...
The Large Plastic
This work in resin and collected and sorted objects (which range from sentimental trivia to significant objects from my home) has taken months to complete. Most of that time has been spent stalling…… (whilst receiving commentary which has been absolutely...
The catalogue is done!
Last week we were up till all hours laying out the catalogue, making sure the images were big enough to be printed and then running too and from from the printers to examine colouration and resolution. This has been an incredible amount of work, but here it is at...
BIRD & CHILD MERMAIDS
These clay and paper mermaids were done by Robin, my daughter, about eight and nine years ago. I have always cherished them because over and above their sentimental value to me, it is their sheer feistiness which is so charming and poignant. In the fairy tale of The...
MAKING ART
Thinking ‘like an artist’ happens whilst I am making things – and this is one thing – but living art is another thing which sometimes is felt rather than seen.