In its finishing stages, I realised that all along, unnoticed by me, our show has a consistent and logical theme. While we worked, the components — paintings, wallpaper and mosaic — seemed more or less disparate. Wanting to create a sense of visual unity, I came up with formal correlates between one element and another [...]
This weekend my step-daughter Babette and I scarcely left the house. Babette has a piece in a group show at the Crypt Gallery, St Pancras, which opens this Thursday. Half-way through her foundation year, she has been hard at work on art school applications, which have to be in today. We broke from our respective [...]
The clay end is the area in a potbank or pottery where the clay is worked. Nothing at the clay end has been fired in a kiln. Men traditionally work in this section, and their work is often heavy and laborious. This is the name we chose to give to the mosaic element of the [...]
My 5 am start didn’t get me to York particularly early. There were a number of accidents on the A1, resulting in a diversion and a series of traffic jams . Miki Slingsby, my photographer, who is incidentally very congenial company and a man of infinite patience, set out considerably later and encountered no problems [...]