Studio Diary
A visual record of goings on during October 2024
It’s been one of those months where I seem to have been busy on lots of little things but I feel that I haven’t managed to do anything really significant.
I have made some progress on the word blocks piece that I started just after moving into my previous studio at the start of 2022. The idea is like the alphabet letter blocks for kids only these will be all four letter words that you can make sentences from. I had previously painted all the blocks and one face of letters then got bored. After a bit of a splurge at the start of the month I’m now eight faces down with just 16 to go. However, it’s been a couple of weeks since I did any more on these so they could be on hold again…
I’ve continued to take XPan format pictures when I’ve been out and about. This one was shot at Peter Marlow’s ‘The English Cathedral’ exhibition which I came across by chance whilst walking through Worcester Cathedral on the way home from the studio.
and a few more abstract images of The Hive taken early one morning when out with the dog.
I replaced the leather on my Polaroid SX-70 camera having found an offcut in the planchest that came with the bookbinding equipment that we inherited recently at the studio. The camera came with a pretty nasty thick silver skin when I bought it a couple of years ago. Now in a less protruding and very fetching dark blue.
It’s not been too exciting on the design front, just the usual sort of updates to adverts and postcards, although I did complete the main poster for the ArtCan Strands exhibition. This A0 version included the DNA style strands from each of the three social media variants that I did previously plus new strands so that it showed snippets of all the artists’ work which was shown in the exhibition.
We had a one-night Halloween style exhibition at the studios and I made a couple of posters. The backgrounds were taken in the old Worcester Royal Infirmary after it had been closed for a while, then I overlaid some public domain Victorian portraits, messing around with the opacity and positioning for best effect.
And finally, I’ve started a series of blue toned Polaroid images of trees. The images themselves aren’t new but the treatment is and most of them haven’t been printed as Polaroids before. I’ve done half a dozen so far with a plan to do a few more and they’re being mounted and framed for sale. I’m working towards the whole set being ready for an exhibition that we have at the Collective at the end of this month and I’m slowly adding them onto my new website shop.
And I think that’s about it. Thanks for your interest in my work.