Art+Life+Me

I am an artist working across the spheres of fine art and craft, working in printmaking, embroidery, drawing, collage and photography. I enjoy creating, imagining, laying pen to paper, thread to fabric, collage, printing, etching, writing, stitching, paper of all kinds, text, physical objects, forgotten objects, the disregarded, the decayed, the lonely. It has been two years since I graduated from Bradford School of Art, I have in that time lived in Bristol for over a year, had several exhibitions, moved to Manchester, started taking commissions, but also been un-employed, moved back to Halifax, really got into drawing again thanks to a day job in which not much thinking or concentrating on the actual job needs to take place, drawing has been my heart and minds saving grace. I am making things I love and hoping to get my foot on the ladder, exhibiting and selling at art fairs. I'm here and I hope to develop and progress, draw, inspire, create and with this blog I hope to make sense of ......art+life+me.

Friday 30 September 2011

I am a bad blogger.

Estoy aca.  Soy aca. There are two different way's to 'be' in castellano...think about that.  I am - temporary....I am - permanently....my state of being......being separated.  Anyway 'I am here' physically and spiritually here in Uruguay, where I have lived now for almost 8 months, it feels like my home, which is a wonderful feeling to have.  I am bound for England on 20th December.....but my intentions are to stay through the Uruguayan summer and while the hours away working in a hostel somewhere by the beach......meet people, draw, ponder my desires, start to weave together the threads dangling there, in my mind.  I have been having a great time, loving and learning, growing, acting the same, thinking about progress and truth, thinking about acting differently,  seeing, smelling, walking, talking, learning, drawing, laughing, listening, forming ideas for dreams which seem possible....at last, teaching, teaching, teaching, dancing, smoking, smoking, smoking,thinking about people about humans, immigration and migration, language, translating, explaining (my god-explaining), its this land, this place and these people its Latin America.........Salado!