In the spring I moved house, and the transition to a new home has turned out to be very disruptive of my art activity. I am now beginning to re-establish something like normality, and hope to continue this blog in the future. I hope to be with you again on a more-or-less regular basis from … Read more
At last it appears that I might be returning to a kind of artistic normality. Over the past few days I have managed to do a couple of drawings which give me some kind of satisfaction. The first was a kind of “homage to Georgio Morandi” and the second an informal self-portrait. Neither of these … Read more
Well, perhaps that is a little too melodramatic. My silence on this blog for the past month is actually due to the fact that we have moved house. This has been, as you might imagine, a lengthy and traumatic process. The more severe part of the experience has been moving into a place which is … Read more
Certainly that is what it feels like, to return to my blog after a long absence. The reasons for this silence have been connected. We have moved house, which has been a substantial disruption of life, and a distraction of my attention. More significantly, I think (although connected to it) I haver been suffering from … Read more
Every now and then I entertain the fantasy that I might do some art. Of course, this is an illusory state of mind. The preparation for our house move ensures that there is no possibility that I might have either the time or the mental freedom to do any such thing. Packing seems to be … Read more
It will be no surprise to any colleague that in the process of preparing to move house I have discovered that there is really no point hanging on to a large proportion of the work I have done over the past thirty years. Phrases about “new brooms” have been heard with increasing frequency and volume. … Read more
Our decision to move house has had the unsurprising consequence of drawing attention to just how much space my art work has come to take up. The new house will have slightly less space than this one, although I will still be blessed with a studio of my own. Nevertheless, I have had to grapple … Read more
There is a very good reason why my posts have been less frequent of late. We are preparing to move house. Sadly, this has become an all-consuming occupation which has diverted my attention almost entirely from art. It doesn’t look as if I am going to be able to do much productive work in the … Read more
As were are preparing to move house in the relatively near future a good part of my time is spent putting into some kind of order the work that has accumulated over the past three decades. I know that it would have been a good idea had I been more strict on a regular basis … Read more
…. it would seem that the “Mills of Art” also “grind slowly”. I have spent a good part of the day engaged in the kind of reviewing process I mentioned in an earlier blog, and it is turning out to be a very interesting experience. In the sorting task I mentioned earlier I have decided … Read more