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 flight manager announced at the onset of our flight ‘The cabin crew call me the Duchess.’ The Duchess was busy all night, as we had a medical emergency in economy class. I couldn’t sleep, and exhaustion gave me morbid thoughts. When I got home I gave my daughter a list of songs required for [...]
After the class finished today I went to a concert by the San Francisco Early Music Society held in a Congregational Church in Berkeley, the Nuclear Free City. Before the concert began, we went to a music shop and had dinner. The tables were full of exotic types; bearded, intense and bohemian, a casting director’s [...]
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 [...]
We went to dinner to celebrate my daughter’s safe return from New York. Exciting trip, she’d wooed Sea Monster , been limo driven to a gig at Big Boar Motorcycles in Hicksville, Long Island (where big bellied bikers repeatedly approached to ask if she was Claudine Biggs) and had many experiences too hair-raising or titillating [...]
Working with Matt today, who feels he needs answers to some questions about our paintings. Not sure if the answers are for him, or for the potential viewing public, but in any case, here they are. Matt: What are the paintings of? Emma: The paintings are not of anything, but they are about something: perception. [...]