#creativepractice

From the days before rock and roll to the modern traveller

Catch up after three month hiatus

Knitting practice to replenish attention.

Little by little, things change.

The future is already here, just poorly distributed, mixed with manifestations of the past and now.

When it's more bumping along the bottom than soaring for the heights.

Notes on Art, Lads, and Other Spectacles

The benefit of public libraries.

Behind the scenes: research, tools, preparation and planning, an anecdote.

Crossing the Rubicon but I'm not alone.

Writing accoutrements and thoughts about bringing new audiences

Yesterday I went over to the old place, it's just on the boundary of the city. A little row of shops, community centre, garage, school, surgery, pub. There used to be a hardware store amongst the bookies,

Today I went to a poetry reading as part of a local literary festival. With readings and conversation by fabian m smith and John Agard. Fabian was new to me, a Jamaican poet full of life, love, laughter,

This was the first time I had taken this walk for a very long time, since last year, I think. I was wondering whether I would be able to do it and keep going the rest of the day: yes, I could. This is

Going back to abandoned projects because their time wasn't right.

I'd noticed the poster for the Northern Lights concert in several places. Northern Lights - so evocative and I recgnised Grieg among the composers, I knew Peer Gynt. The others were all new to me. It was

By TANAKA Juuyoh (田中十洋) - Sakura and Moss Pink / 桜(さくら)と芝桜(しばざくら), CC BY 2.0 I struggled with this theme, thinking that I knew nothing about Japan. I wondered about taking inspiration from Yayoi Kusama,

The second part of the Travelling Books creative project - an experimental piece inspired by poetry

An overview of a design process seminar and thoughts about developing my own design practice

An idea for mentoring to help artists, artisans and makers develop their creative practice. Feedback welcome :)