Today the Unit 9 gallery at there South Square Centre changes its name. From now on we will be known as The Gallery Upstairs. When the Centre first began to operate, the various elements in it continued to be known by the numbers of the retail units in the building. The area which became the … Read more
I’ve just returned home from a great day with the first “Thornton Art Trail”. This included, in a large number of venues, my own current exhibition at the South Square Centre. I’ve lost count of the number of venues which were eventually included in the trail, but I believe that when I last heard it … Read more
My exhibition at the Apothecary Gallery closes on Thursday, and I’ve been getting feedback both from the gallerist and from friends who visited the show. The response I have been getting is very warm, based on personal communication and remarks in the visitors’ book. I understand that the sale of cards has been pretty good. … Read more
I guess that the general stereotype of artists includes the idea that we are essentially not mathematically-minded. Theories of the dominance of brain hemispheres (which have interested me for a long time) would tend to support this. Nevertheless, there is no getting away from the fact that at the very least we need to be … Read more
I don’t think that I have ever experienced such a busy period in my artistic activity. I have an exhibition running at the Apothecary Gallery at the moment.* Then on 31 May my solo show in the South Square Centre will also open.** It is an immensely exciting time, but I’m not sure that I … Read more
It is interesting how the lack of progress on a particular task can leave a sense of a general failure to move forward in life. When that blockage is removed everything seems to loosen up. This seems to be my condition at the moment. On the domestic front we have been promising ourselves to get … Read more
Perhaps you will have heard the old joke about London busses.* You wait for ages and then three come along at once. Well: it seems that exhibitions are like that. I find myself in the position of preparing for two definite commitments, while waiting for news of my possible acceptance for a third. During May … Read more
The Unit 9 group of artists met last night for one of our periodic get-togethers, at the South Square Centre. A major item of business was the determination of our programme for the coming months. One of the things we are planning is a re-run of an exercise we have done before which produced interesting … Read more
…. and today I took a step! I actually managed to get off to the organisers my entry for this year’s “Patchings” exhibition.* I consider it to have been a considerable achievement because this wretched cold has left me in a state of misery and depression. Nevertheless, I got a grip, made some selection decisions, … Read more
I discovered today that the most important attribute of an artist must be tenacity. Finally I have managed to get off my application for participation in the forthcoming Take Time exhibition, in Ilkley. It is impossible to convey the rococo character of the application form and accompanying request for illustrations. For some totally inexplicable reason … Read more