A Siberian Red 105…
22 Jul 2012

A Siberian Red 105…

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In 3 days time, just as the UK gets it’s long overdue heatwave, we’ll be packing our car & heading off for sunnier climes… A drive down to Dover to catch a ferry to Calais and then a 3 day drive down through France to a Spanish villa near Zaragoza. After a week of hopefully doing very little, we’re then faced with a 2 day drive up to a French campsite, 2 days camping, followed by a another day up to Calais and then a final day driving back home. Simples 🙄 The Olympic torch will be making it’s merry/annoying way around London on the day we attempt to get down to Dover, the Olympics will be in full flow the day we attempt to cross London on our return, and then there’s the ‘small’ matter of our tent…

Art commissions & competitions.
13 Jul 2012

Art commissions & competitions.

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Competition

We’ll start with the competition artwork for Derby’s Friar Gate Square, which I’m guessing has been unsuccessful (I’ve heard nothing either way yet, and it’s been a while)…

The brief was to design a piece of contemporary art inspired by the Enlightenment movement drawing inspiration from Derby’s own Joseph Wright. So after a bit of swatting up on the internet, and armed with glue, acrylic, magazines, print-outs, scissors, pencils and an old bank envelope (it just seemed right!!!), I set to work.

Despite the fact that I doubt I’ve won (you win some, you lose some), this was a nice little challenge, and one that I actually really enjoyed doing.