Leaving the house. Ben Saunders Polar Explorer

Norman Ackroyd interview

Norman Ackroyd, R.A. from Superimpose Magazine on Vimeo.

Upstairs at the Northern Lights Pub, Brighton

I love this place, a small independent Nordic pub nestled in the heart of the South Lanes in Brighton. They serve delicious Scandinavian food and offer a vast array of interesting drinks for far away lands plus some local ales too....

My Norway drawing plus a selection of limited edition etchings and screenprints will be on display throughout December.

I have given a lot of thought recently to whether following this path of being an artist is really a wise thing to be doing. It's scary and unpredictable, it has many ups and downs with rarely very much money. I thought for a while of giving it all up and becoming something else, this seemed sensible and i found the prospect of learning something new quite exciting. But i think somewhere along the line i forgot to look right into the core of myself to see what it is that makes me who i am.

Climbing in Cheddar Gorge

find your tribe

We all have a natural habitat:

in the country, by the sea, in the city.

It's in our blood, our natural homeland.

It's where we're most content,

where we flourish.

It's where we find peace.

Book Launch- 'Images 36' AOI annual Best of British Illustration

My Norway hut drawing has been included in this years annual book brought out by the Association of Illustrators. We turned up to the swanky book launch at Somerset House night before last feeling very underdressed and maybe a bit drunk. Got a free Parker pen though, not bad.

Nick Clegg poses next to my drawing...almost

Cape Farewell

http://www.capefarewellfoundation.com/home.html

"Cape Farewell works in partnership with scientific and cultural institutions to deliver an innovative climate programme of public engagement. We use the notion of expedition - Arctic, Island, Urban and Conceptual - to interrogate the scientific, social and economic realities that lead to climate disruption, and to inspire the creation of climate focused art which is disseminated across a range of platforms - exhibitions, festivals, publications, digital media and film. "

Whilst researching i came across this project involving people from different walks of life who have joined forces in raising public awareness of climate change; artists, poets, musicans, writers, oceanographers, geoscientists, geographers and environmental scientists have all come together on expeditions to create work that reaches out to the public, engaging a wider spectrum of people with the issue of climate change.

Exhibition up in Brighton

After a long day going up to Oxford and back, hoping to god that the pictures would come down easier than they went up (thankfully they did) loading up the van and ferrying them off to Brighton for round 2 of wrestling with giant frames. But its all up now, if you want to see them they will be on display at Red Roaster cafe in Kemptown, Brighton until 30th September

1d St James St
Brighton
BN2 1RE

Genius Loci: A Sense of Place

  

 presents...

Genius Loci: A Sense of Place
2nd-7th July 2012
Gallery at 32 Store Street
London WC1E 7BS
11- 6pm

Genius Loci: A Sense of Place brings together the work of 14 artists exploring and reflecting on space and place. Whether specific or imagined, internal or external, place shapes our memory. It defines our personal stories, weaving us into the fabric of a greater narrative - our relationship to our home, Earth.

My Norway little cabin drawing will be on show in the exhibition, i'm very excited about this!

Setting up at the Jam Factory in Oxford

better photos to follow...

it's raining, it's pouring, i'm sat inside drawing :)

A Perfect Circle with Steph Davis

These are nice..

Paintings by Peter Doig, found an interesting interview with him here

Screenprinting

I've recently started screenprinting this place in Portslade called Parliament of Feathers. Yesterday i printed some bits to put up in Ground in time for the Artist Open House festival, to be hung on Sunday. So this evening i have been framing frantically, not that i've left it to the last minute...

my newly appointed hero- Norman Ackroyd

I think his prints are utterly beautiful... http://www.normanackroyd.com/

Something from Nothing at the Gopher, London

http://www.somethinkfunky.com/

more pictures from the show can be seen here

Snowdon Horseshoe (Southern Side)

Private commission

Snowdon on the right of the picture and Y Lliwedd on the left.
76 x 56cm
Charcoal and chalk

Towner Gallery Eastbourne

Hannah and I took the bus out to Eastbourne on Tuesday to visit the Towner Gallery. Neither of us had been there before so didn't know what to expect. We went to see this

Gibson / Martelli (igloo) – VISITOR

there was quite a fun installation which involved half a rowing boat that was connected to a computer generated landscape, we were given the map and tried our best to co-ordinate our way through the place. The whole thing was set up inside this house...

and then in the corner of the room they were showing a 40 minute film with footage of the Canadian Rockies which i thought sounded pretty good but it turned out to be on a tiny little tv screen which was a bit of a let down, we thought it would have been much better projected on to the whole end wall.

Stone Farm

First day of the year climbing outside, we went to Stone Farm and it was a beautiful day!

Dancing Ledge, Swanage, Dorset

Dancing Ledge, Swanage along the Jurassic Coastline in Dorset.

Drawn in ink
1 metre x 1.6 metres
stretched on bars, unframed

David Hockney documentary

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01c7wmr/The_Culture_Show_2011_2012_David_Hockney_The_Art_of_Seeing_A_Culture_Show_Special/

I enjoyed watching this documentary about David Hockney. His recent Royal Academy exhibition looks fantastic, i really want to go and see it. And i thought my landscape drawings were big :/