What a choice! I find myself torn between four tempting or imperative demands. I have embarked on the revision of this web-site, and have made less progress than I wanted to. The garden is a complete mess after the winter, and an hour spent out there this afternoon only served to emphasise just how much … Read more
Progress is quite good now on the revision of my website. The secret of my success has been to abandon the clever spreadsheet I was sent, and fall back on the technology I know …. as simple table. The biggest asset of this way of working is that I actually know what I am doing, … Read more
I had no idea, when I launched the current revision process for this website, just what a task it would turn out to be. As it happens, revising the text has not been too difficult a process. The real effort is in the illustrations. Of course, I have to take on the updating of these. … Read more
Yes: that’s the one! He was the one who had to keep rolling a boulder up the hill eternally. I was thinking about him today as I worked on the revision of my web-site. This task is long overdue, largely because of the amount of labour I knew it would involve. Now I have grasped … Read more
The past year has been unlike any other when it comes to the number of exhibitions in which my work has appeared. The down-side of that, of course, was the enormous amount of work these entailed, with the selection of work, preparation for the event, transport, hanging, publicity, and sometimes also invigilation. The often unrecognised … Read more
I am launched on the difficult process of revising my web-site …. not just the odd periodic tarting up, but a pretty substantial reassessment for what it looks like, what it tells people, and what it ought to tell the visitor but doesn’t. It struck me that it could be very useful to have some … Read more
I was asked recently why I take the trouble to drive over to Ilkley each week to take part in a life-drawing class. Let’s face it, I do seem to go to a lot of trouble (and expense!) in order to do this, and it’s certainly not unreasonable to enquire why an activity is worth … Read more
It is possible that I have remarked upon this previously, but I was very interested this morning to see the level of communal participation at our local Remembrance service, in Clayton. Every year the turnout at the war memorial appears to be larger. I counted twenty-five wreaths laid there, which must be some indication of … Read more
For the first time in ages I actually feel that I have been moving forward today. The fact that my injured arm has not given any trouble, for the first time in ages, has been an enormous boost to morale. More important I suppose is the fact that plans to revise this website have, at … Read more
We want over to Ilkley today for various shopping purposes. I noticed on the way home that there had been one crucial difference between this visit and my usual ones. There was no visit to the art shop! In the past a visit to the art supplies shop would be the primary purpose of the … Read more