art club for the homeless

Saw this and thought it was a worthwhile exercise. 

"The art club is not art therapy – quite deliberately not. It is about people being artists together."

http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/aug/05/homeless-art-club-royal-academy-london

Printmaking work

Busy getting ready for the Sheffield Print Fair next weekend. Here are a few prints some new some old...

Lake District research trip

Sheffield Print Fair

I've been fortunate enough to be given a stall at this years Sheffield Print Fair.
It's at the Millennium Gallery on the 10th May 10am - 4pm. 
Should be good!

YHA commission

EXCITING NEWS!! I've been lucky enough to be commissioned by the YHA to produce a piece of artwork for permanent exhibition in their newly renovated Black Sail hostel. I feel genuinely touched and ecstatic to be given this unique opportunity. Black Sail is a very special place and I can't think of a more fitting place to hang my work.

"Maybe happiness is this: not feeling like you should be elsewhere, doing something else, being someone else." Isaac Asimov

Nick Hand

This guy Nick Hand has spent some time cycling around the UK interviewing different artisans, collecting their stories. Heres one of my favourites...

http://slowcoast.co.uk/soundslides/soundslide.php?id=110

There are loads of nice ones, such an array of interesting people he met on his journeys!