I collected my work this afternoon from a group exhibition to which I had contributed a picture. It was encouraging to be one of three contributors singled out for particular approval by one person who registered a response in the visitors’ book. Usually remarks in the book are rather generic, and apply to the exhibition … Read more
We drive down to Worcester again tomorrow in order to collect my “Green Man” exhibition, at the end of its run. It is always interesting to gather indications as to how my work has been received. (I have had one appreciative email already.) There are always surprises in this respect …. usually pleasant, but occasionally … Read more
Terry Wogan used to have a running joke on his daily radio programme, about his “other listener”. (Or course, he had several million of them.) I was always reminded of the way in which his gag echoed the references by the Danish philosopher and theologian Soren Kierkegaard to his “other reader”. I did wonder whether … Read more
…. with the punters. Too often my experience as an exhibitor has been to hang my work (or have it hung for me) and then to be compelled to leave it on the wall without actually having the opportunity to engage with the viewers. The first showing of my new series Creating the Creation took … Read more