The chosen

I have just realised that there is a particularly important process in selecting work for exhibition. I have two coming up in the next couple of months. The first will be at the Apothecary Gallery, in Thornton, and the second at the South Square Centre. As I get into the planning process I am coming … Read more

What to exhibit?

I’m faced with a recurring problem, not only for myself but for any practising artist. Addressing the question of which of my works I ought to include in an exhibition, I find myself in a state of acute indecision. The problem doesn’t arise, of course, where I am committed from the outset to a particular … Read more

I’m reviewing the situation

The Ilkley exhibition is going very well …. generally speaking. This afternoon, however, my wife came to collect me at the end of the session, and looking around the display remarked that one item was “insipid”, and suggested an alternative. She doesn’t mince her words! The piece in question had been included as an example … Read more