Inspired Interiors

These images are inspiration for my work, I would also love them to be my own interior spaces!. Something about these bare worn out rooms I'm really drawn to, stripped of luxury and modern finishes.

Made of Strong Stuff

'Made of Strong Stuff' is now part of my logo and business identity. There's more to it than just a title but more info will follow, I just wanted to get a bit of ownership over the title in case someone else starts to use it Grrrrr!

Pull your finger out

A little update!

Things are all starting to come together finally. 2009 was a year of massive upheaval which put my Designing and making on hold for a while. Now in a new year, while I still don't have my studio all in place here in Edinburgh, I am back on board and ready to get stuck in again.

Some of the new work will be very different to what I've put out before, but more faithful to my real inspirations and ideas. I have felt in the past some of the work I've produced to be a little derivative, but more so for it to be very safe. I want to get away from making easy commercial work, it feels pointless, I may as well be selling someone else's work. So! Big changes in store.

In addition to designing and making, I do an awful lot of other stuff (Teaching, Workshops, Theatre work) maybe I've said this before? I don't know, but I feel the need to remind everyone in case you think I'm lazy!. So, while it may appear from the lack of activity on this blog and lack of website entirely, that I've given up, this is far from it, I'm doing loads! The website should be together within the next few months, so keep a look out.

The image posted below is my business card which frames my new logo at the centre of it.

Made of Strong Stuff!

Update

I am now living/working in Edinburgh, hurrah! Have had loads going on this year and with a few moves before this one, no time for updating this thing or the website (I'm still stubbornly insisting on doing it all myself!). I'm trying to sort out a studio through here, but its seriously hard. Everyones after one about in Edinburgh so competition is fierce, but so too am I! So will get something sorted soonish.

We're going to see the rabbit...

We are going to see the rabbit.

We are going to see the rabbit.

Which rabbit, people say?

Which rabbit, ask the children?

WHICH rabbit?

The only rabbit,

The only rabbit in England,

Sitting behind a barbed-wire fence

Under the floodlights, neon lights,

Sodium lights,

Nibbling grass

On the only patch of grass

In England, in England

(Except the grass by the hoardings

Which doesn’t count ).

We are going to see the rabbit

And we must be there on time.

First we shall go by escalator,

Then we shall go by underground,

And then we shall go by motorway,

And then by helicopter way,

And the last ten yards we shall have to go on foot.

And now we are going

All the way to see the rabbit,

We are nearly there,

We are longing to see it,

And so is the crowd

Which is here in thousands

With mounted policemen

And big loudspeakers

And bands and banners,

And everyone has come a long way.

But soon we shall see it

Sitting and nibbling

The blades of grass

In – but something has gone wrong !

Why is everyone so angry,

Why is everyone jostling

And slanging and complaining?

The rabbit has gone,

Yes, the rabbit has gone.

He has actually burrowed down into the earth

And made himself a warren, under the earth

Despite all these people.

And what shall we do?

What CAN we do?

It is all a pity, you must be disappointed,

Go home and do something else for today,

Go home again, go home for today.

For you cannot hear the rabbit, under the earth,

Remarking rather sadly to himself, by himself,

As he rests in his warren, under the earth:

“It won’t be long, they are bound to come,

They are bound to come and find me, even here.”

Great Poem. I was driving along and heard it on Radio 4, while trying to seek sanctuary from the idiocy of Radio 1. Sanctuary indeed. How does Chris Moylles (I hope I've spelt that incorrectly) have a job with the BBC? don't get me started on the others.

Eva Hesse

A collection of Test Pieces by Eva Hesse is currently showing at the Fruitmarket Gallery. I adore her work, and was very influenced by her during my early years at Art College. Here are a couple of my favorite pieces.

One of hundreds of little curiosities at my dads house......