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Working on Something for the Little Ones …

Like many young children, my toddler and older baby love that Antipodean canine and her family, Bluey. To be honest, I probably like it as much as them. I can quite often be found chuckling at Bandit, Chilli and their offspring, sometimes when the kids have given up watching. We hope to be moving next […]

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Work in Progress

The worst thing about running an arts not for profit and home educating my children is that I don’t often get to work on my own art as something always comes up to get in the way; or I feel such guilt about doing something for myself, which is meant to be my career, that […]

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Return of the blog…..

So in my head I have that song from the 90s, “Return of the Mac” as I write this…. except that noone knew I’d be back as noone probably knew I went away.  Well I have been away for almost 18months.  The reasons for this are varied. I’ve launched an arts organisation, run 2 big […]

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SLAM Fridays: SHAPE CLOSING PARTY

Why is it that whenever anything big is meant to happen I get ill?  I don’t know why but that is what always seems to happen.  A couple of weeks ago I came down with a bloody awful virus and I am having a nightmare trying to shake it.   Tomorrow is the closing party […]

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TOP TIP FOR FILM AND DIGITAL ARTISTS….

Hi  this is a very short post.  If like me you use After Effects for your work sometimes then you probably have come across this issue.  You got export something, add it to the encoder queue, or launch it and after loading up you are met with the crash screen. You search frantically for an […]

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New Website Finally Finished

So a few weeks ago I decided I hated my website and convinced I didn’t have enough to do already, I decided to tear it down and start all over again. It has taken me a huge amount of time and at various points I have thought about giving up on it but I am […]

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My Shop Is Online

So I haven’t written for a while (well outside of my moaning about the lack of thought toward disabled artists by a gallery) so I thought I would catch you up on what I have been doing. Well outside of creating art, having pointless boat trips to galleries and home educating my children I have […]

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“SELF” The Private View That Never Was

This post was first published on the SHAPE ARTS website, but I thought I would feature it here too as I believe It is important. I was going to post here about the private view at Quay Arts for an exhibition I am involved in called SELF that took place last night.   However I am instead […]

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Bee Happy

I was feeling down yesterday so I decided to make a little picture to cheep myself up.  This picture will be available as a card in the DRawnOn shop when it opens.

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Day 7: Book Turned Up and Submission to Photobook Show

Well today despite poorliness I have done 2 new things (kind of).  I have started to open my mind to self-healing through chanting, the power of aum and hypnosis and I have submitted to the Photobook Show. When I say I have submitted, what I mean is my book turned up this morning and I […]