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Starting off on an academic footing we went to Turkey looking at Archaic Archaeological sites.This gave us a reason to be in various out of the way places, a useful way of getting a look in to local life.
We then moved to Istanbul rented an apartment and set up home.
This is a set of photos taken from out of our apartment window:
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I produced a lot of ink paintings, many of which have never been shown. -Something in common with the work I produced in Kashmir.
Then we eventually moved back to Britain..
Stopping in Leicester where Anne carried out a TEFL course following which we spent half a year in India.
I produced a series of paintings on cloth.
Following the offer of a reasonable job we eventually moved to Birmingham.
I did the parenting whilst carrying on painting in a loose way, also rebuilding the house we bought and still live in.
Making Puppets Come Alive. 94
The puppets during a break in the show, from the previous year in Udaipur Rajasthan, which we had returned to and stayed in the Rangniwas Palace Hotel and were the manager; Mr Singh was still about and active.
Painted on the base for a shield shaped mirror
I took up stained glass as a part time course
I was also doing various mural projects with mainly junior school children, in and around our local area.
I decided to finish off a lot of unfinished work and show it.
At which point I drew a line under my work as a painter and opened up an opportunity to challenge everything.
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At approaching fifty, I decided to shake the tree a little to see what fell.
Being brought up as a traditional painter - having that discipline pretty well thrust down my throat. This gave me a chance to question, champion or drop everything that I had held onto over the years whilst my contacts and contemporary influences waned. (Much of this was to do with being abroad and moving around)
The M.A. was a course that was completely on the other side of the coin to what I had been accustomed to.
Henry Rogers and
Judy Inglis
Were fundamental in changing the way that I was looking at things. Not without a certain degree of pain!
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| I also worked with Sean O'keefe in the printmaking department. We were able to maintain some sort of ribald oversight on proceedings. etching. |
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| Etching from a drawing I had done twenty years previously from Bharmour, H.P. Seans comment was that I had made it "Wizardy" My friend the sky. |
Paper Mural
12-02-2020.
So- I finally made a Grad course 25 years later.
I found it a complete change of thought, direction & attitude. It wasn’t actually my idea to do it, but one thing that persuaded me was the comfortable & lively state of the print dept. With Sean O’Keefe as technician I dived in with that Department as a base.
I did various prints, but here I’ve got etchings and monos.
I found it a complete change of thought, direction & attitude. It wasn’t actually my idea to do it, but one thing that persuaded me was the comfortable & lively state of the print dept. With Sean O’Keefe as technician I dived in with that Department as a base.
I did various prints, but here I’ve got etchings and monos.
I had been working quite a lot with primary school children,
actually getting “them” to paint murals & big things.
I had also been involved with taking my son to school every day ~ you could say it was in my blood!
I had also been involved with taking my son to school every day ~ you could say it was in my blood!
There was the local school run outside my window, I simply
took the two bits of experience and mixed them up. With a paper mural added
downstairs at Margaret Street.
Link to a cross section of work covering the "School Run" studies:
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I used Michell's little man to help illustrate a poem by e.e.cummings
Which ends with the line dem liddl yeller bastids, weer gonna sivilizem.
On the back of the box is stuck an account of British colonialism.
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I shook up my practice in everyway I could imagine.
Realising at that point in time that "Anything goes - mix and match, throw everything into the mix.
I in fact stayed on as a listening student for a couple of years afterwards, where I was able to finish off stuff and put together a couple of shows.
I had access to the workshops, library and was able to join in small philosophical courses.
Two technicians:
Sol Moxham and Rob
Gerald Cipriani, philosophy and Italo Zuffi with whom I spent a fair bit of creative time.
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February 2002
It comprised of a hundred humorous e-mails that I had send to various people during the course and beyond.
"The Artist" strikes a pose in front of "the Art"
Summer 2002
Inside St Martins.
Flight Table
It was placed in a chapel dedicated to sick people, it had its own small private area there.
There were accurate directions and flight times in all directions. Etched onto thick glass.
This was a popular favourite in the show. Unfortunately, it smashed whilst I was taking it down and I don't have much recording of it.
Someone placed a large candle in the centre of it, dedicated to ill people all over the world I suppose.
It contained flight directions to places all over the world from Birmingham including the time it took to get there.
View back towards the main entrance from the chapel for sick people.
In view is the large machine that doesn't work (ever).
The church within the church.
Entitled "Light House"
I was also working on a series of emails entitled
"Embellishing the Masters"
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| Hobbema Run |
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