I’m now recovering from four days of guests as part of a local open studio event. It’s good from time-to-time to be able to chat to people interested in what I do, openings rarely give you that opportunity. The weather […]

It is the Athens Video Art Festival this weekend – seems like bad timing; I’ve been following the terrible events on the news and contacted them via Facebook, as have other artists, to find out if it has gone ahead, […]

Reading the letters at the front of this month’s Artists’ Newsletter, I thought I was reading Artist’s and Illustrator’s Magazine, not AN! Don McNeil’s letter provoked a lot of feelings in me. It is true that current art taught in […]

I was pleased to hear that 700is Reindeerland is showing one of my video stills as part of their experimental video-art festival. I plan to go to Iceland in the future to make some work, it looks a really inspirational […]

The layers and layers of primer on the canvasses are finally finished – painted a couple a day, rubbed down inbetween each coat. This afternoon I decided to create vertical lines using glue and sand, but before braving the Narnia […]

Wilried Agricola has kindly included my project on the camp at Rivesaltes in his Shoah Film Collection. For those of you who have been directed from his site: Draft Title Shoah, please click on ‘Reverse Order’ at the top of […]

Work’s been hectic recently – been editing videos for two screeings coming up in February – one at The Firestation in Windsor which will run concurrently with a photographic exhibition by Bleach Box and the other a screening organised by […]

I’ve decided to paint 20 or so layers of primer on the canvasses – sanding them down in between coats, so that eventually I will have a mirror-like surface. After that who knows what will evolve? I started this afternoon, […]

Following on from the previous post, the downside of working out in the sticks is that it makes it very difficult to attend openings and screenings – I could spend a lot of time travelling to screenings and shows across […]

Recently I’ve been using the internet to network: FaceBook and Twitter. Even though I’m living up a mountain in the middle of nowhere it is easy to be in contact with galleries, curators and fellow artists. I’ve had a FaceBook […]

Today I visited the camp with my friend Deev, a sculptor. I’ve been invited to put on an exhibition in our local town on the theme of Rivesaltes. Instead of a solo show, or something purely information-giving, I’ve decided to […]

I’ve just been Skyped by two monks from Douai Abbey in Berkshire – I offered them four large paintings (1.80m x 2m) some time back. They are stored in my wife’s parents garage in Hampshire following a show in London […]

I was pleased to hear Matthew Collings’ views on video-art earlier this week on ‘School of Saatchi’: “Video-Art at the moment gets you brownie points if you do it”. Everybody is doing it now. I remember four years ago I […]

I found last night’s “Where is Modern Art Now?”, on the BBC, heartening. Gus Casely-Hayford (GC-H) explored the position of the current art scene during the recession and post YBA celebrity bling. He asked: ‘Where do you go when being […]

I watched ‘The Art on your wall’ on BBC2 last night and it raised some interesting points. Sue Perkins approached the subject as a typical home-owner who wants to decorate her house with pictures. She made a distinction between artists […]

Nick Griffin (BNP leader) on BBC’s Question Time was controversial and caused violent protests. People say to me that the Holocaust is not a relevant subject today, so why did a Holocaust denier stir up so much anger? Before QT, […]

Following a stint of DIY preparing the studio for winter (so I can hopefully carry on working whilst it’s blowing a gale outside) I got back to some painting, I decided to finish a series that I started last year, […]

I managed to drag myself away from framing and video-editing to start a new series of paintings. I locked the studio door to avoid any distractions from little Emilie and Louis and started to ‘drip’ over textures I made earlier […]

I was pleased Andrew Bryant chose one of my comments as quote of the month; I emailed him with the request for a forum on Artists Talking and as it turns out is something they’ve been discussing at chez A-N […]

On Saturday I had a video screened at The Tenderpixel Gallery London as part of Rushes Soho Shorts. Unfortunately other commitments meant that I couldn’t attend. It will be showing every afternoon until 31st July. http://tenderpixel.com/rushes09.html They have also produced […]