Halloween rocks

I am one of my own paintings. Couldn't you tell?
I call it "Reds and Blues No. 1"

Artselector Contemporary Fine Art Collective

I have a page with some of my paintings on the Artselector web site. It has good discussions and information as well as a great contemporary gallery.

Save the date - Winter Open Studios

The Winter Open Studios double weekend at the Chocolate Factory N16 will be the last weekend in November and the first weekend in December.
Nov 24 & 25, and Dec 1 & 2

Chocolate Factory N16

There are 25 studios with about 30 artists most of whom will be around for the four days. The variety of practices include ceramics - sculptural and functional, lampshade and windowshade design, paintings - in many media, textile design, graphic design, printmaking, sculpture - objects and installation, photography, artists' books, performance and drawing.

I now have books at The Bookartbookshop

The Bookartbookshop in Shoreditch, East London now carries the following titles of my books:
Have a Nice Day (In the collections of Tate Britain Special Collection, Camberwell College of Arts Library, Manchester Metropolitan Library)
Welcome To the Neighbourhood (In the collections of Tate Britain Special Collection, Camberwell College of Arts Library)
Redundant
cut it out
Some of My Parts
Regret
H On a Train (Touring for the last 2 years with the Sitting Room exhibition)
Have a Nice Day postcard set (set of 10)
Compliments Slips post card set (set of 5)

Sitting Room is now in The Netherlands for a month!

I have books in a travelling exhibition called Sitting Room. It is now in The Netherlands and as always the installation is exquisite. Thanks Tom and Lucy.

The exhibition is being held in the AKI, Academy of Fine Arts in Enschede. The show opens today (10th October) and is on until 12th November.

Opening Night of Rich and Strange

new postcard

I am heading up to Manchester in a few hours to prepare for tomorrow's Book Fair.

Among many other things I will be showing a new postcard of the stages of the making of the altered book Dreamers of Decadence for the Rich and Strange altered books project.
Here it is.

Bookmarks V exhibition

Small artists' bookworks in the form of bookmarks are now exhibiting as Bookmarks V. You can see mine on-line here: Bookmarks V Artists. There is also a world distribution schedule there.
I am in great company, the collection is stunning!
Many thanks to Sarah Bodman of the The Centre for Fine Print Research at The University of the West of England.

Manchester Artist’s Book Fair 2007

I will have a table at the second annual

Manchester Artist’s Book Fair

on Sept 29, 2007.
I will have about 12 different books and some postcards on display.

Sent off painting to auction

Here is the painting I just finished and sent to the Spectrum Autism charity art auction. It is from The Universe in a Drop of Water series. The title is Interior Landscape 26. It is acrylic on 60x60cm deep edged canvas.

Spectrum art site
Spectrum art blog

A studio snapshot

Last week. Lots of work in different stages. It gets crowded sometimes when some work has to lay flat to dry and the oil paint formula is a slow drying one.

Rich and Strange book is finished!

I finally finished the painting and gilding of the Dreamers of Decadence book for the Rich and Strange altered books project. The project is a way to use discarded books (they were all art books). It should have arrived with them on Friday.

Dreamers of Decadence is about Symbolist painters and is an interesting book but I was fascinated by the title. To create a feeling of decadence the pages of the book are extravagantly painted and gilded with an extra thick layer of 24kt gold. This excessive use of gold expands the fore edge of the book and gold shines out.

They have now set up a web site about the exhibit: Rich and Strange

Spectrum Art Auction for autism charity

I am donating a painting to the Spectrum art auction in Cornwall. It is to raise money for the Spectrum autism charity.
Spectrum art site
Spectrum art blog

The Twits in Shoreditch

Last chance to see the Twits in Shoreditch exhibition at Standpoint Gallery. There is one day left. The open evening was Thursday and the MP for Shoreditch who cut the ribbon pointed out that 22% of people in Shoreditch are under 16 and that Hackney has the largest concentration of artists in Europe, so we should do more with our 2 largest groups: kids and artists.
I helped Anna Boggon with a workshop where the kids made small furniture and stuck it on the ceiling upside down like in the book.
I will put pictures on when I get them from Mia, the organiser of the event.

Rich and Strange: Altered Books Project

Flock Gallery Space, Newport School of Art Media and Design
artschool.newport.ac.uk
04-Oct to 18-Oct-2007

A group exhibition of 120 altered books by artists all over the world and the UK that begins at the Flock Gallery. The project is a way to use discarded books (they were all art books).
All books will be exhibited first at flock, the new gallery space at Newport School of Art Media and Design, University of Wales, Newport, from 4th to 18th October 2007. The exhibition will then move to Newport Central Library, from 22nd October to 2nd November, where the public will be able to check the books out on loan.

For 3 months I have been constantly painting and gilding my book Dreamers of Decadence. I will miss the book when it is gone, it is an hourly part of my life, painting and waiting for that page to dry and coming back and painting the next one...

Just finished a big fish

As always my painting revolves around colour. This time I chose a fish to play in the colours. Just finished it yesterday. Acrylic and oil paints on deep canvases. It is 200x120cm, pretty big, so it is over 2 canvases.

Gasworks Poster Show

The Gasworks show begins this week.
Opening Night
Thursday 9 August,
7-9pm

Exhibition Continues:
to Sunday 26 August

Gasworks
155 Vauxhall Street
London SE11 5RH
UK

Pictures from the Holloway Arts Festival 07-07-07

The kids from the Rowan Arts after school art club Art Games did a fantastic job and we had such a great day! It was better than anyone expected. And the people who attended were very interested and asked the children lots of questions and it went really well. Well done everyone!
Also, not only did it not rain but I got a bit of a sunburn! Woohoo!

070707

It is July 7 2007.

Poster in Stick*Stamp*Fly

Stick*Stamp*Fly, 2007
Gasworks
10-26 Aug. 2007

I have had a poster selected for exhibition in Stick*Stamp*Fly. It is an A2 version of my 50% happier flyer.
There will also be events each Thursday at 7:00 during the exhibition.