I will be showing again at 21/21 at the Royal College of Art in Kensington Gore, next week, with Vernissage.
20/21 opens Thursday 16th February and runs through Sunday 19th.
See you there.
The awesome setting and gorgeous,unseasonably warm late afternoon on the coast of Spain was a most fitting end of an exciting few days of sculpture conference at Bilboa.
We saw wonderful sculptures by Brancusi and Serra at the Guggenheim, and then were treated to a magical afternoon at the Chillida Leku where Eduardo Chillida spent most of his creative life and where there is a spectacular collection of his sculptures. Fabulous few days. Lots of new friends and creative inspiration.
Keeping my website up to date is driving me crazy.
Much more rewarding was compiling a new book of my work on blurb.
Do have a look at it on http://www.blurb.com/books/2592208.
I know I should be able to do this with a link or a widget, but after nearly two hours on my site I GIVE UP!!!//!!
I am totally mystified! Went to update my exhibition list only to find that it has disappeared.
Logic tells me that it could be retrieved by the press of a button or two but which!?
I am showing with Vernissage at the Affordable Art Fair in Battersea until Sunday 23rd Oct.
Most of this year has been a succession of sofa days after I shredded the cartilage in my “good” knee heli skiing in Canada in January. It was then a long wait to having both my knees replaced on May 12th. Yes, at once!
Since then my rehabilitation has been punctuated by many a day of finding out how much, “too much” activity is but I am now starting work again if a little tentatively.
Very happily for me, my return to work comes on the heels of a very exciting event. Through my association with the Royal British Society of Sculptors, I was given the opportunity to show five of my sculptures in a solo show, over August at Christie’s South Kensington and I am delighted to be able to report that three of the five sculptures has sold. One of the sculptures was whisked away to Norway and another to San Diego!
I will also be exhibiting with Vernissage at Art London in October so it’s all systems go with lots of fab stone in my studio waiting to be carved…. yippee.
With somewhat patchy cyber connectivity in Marble, and with a treasure trove of stones to choose from, I gave up even trying to blog during the summer and devoted my energies to carving, carving and just a bit more carving instead.I managed to rough out 12 pieces which is something of a record for me and thankfully they have all arrived safe and sound here in London where some have been completed already. (see 2010 gallery page)
Arrived in Marble last night and was down to the worksite to set up my work area bright and early
This green stone is described by my stone supplier in Vancouver, as brucite. It has a rather wonderful array of green to bluish gray colours in it and can at times be reasonably translucent.
It is quite a lot harder that alabaster and grinds better than it chisels as the crystals can tear out rather than cut cleanly. Also the hardness varies hugely within the rock.
My aim is to get as big a triangulate shape hollowed out within the piece as possible. The limitations are on getting the tools in there to do it. This is the easy part done.
What can I say? When the pace of my life speeds up, blogging drops off the radar. No doubt a very middle aged set of priorities!
So what have I been doing since the beginning of May other than spending a completely disproportionate amount of time on the telephone to customer services at Virgin? This…
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I was in such a frenzy of stone removal that I gave myself quite a start when suddenly I had this left.
Just a few days ago, it seems, I broke through the middle of the sculpture and then time just took off. Mostly I was so involved with the piece that I worked until all I could do when I got home was pour myself a sundowner and head for a hot bath. No energy left for answering emails or blogging.
Next, I got to here 
and before you knew it to here 
then here 
Today I made some final corrections and got a preview about how it might look polished
