Very happy to announce that, as from Monday, 12th February, Todmorden Open Studios are organising a monthly drawing meet-up. This is a great chance for people to meet one another, see who is out there, drum up ideas and projects, while keeping up the discipline of drawing!! Drawing, using your own choice of materials from pencil to clay, is such an important and basic factor to approaching art, it helps to loosen up and brings out the playful factor that is so important to making art yet can get overlooked. Everybody is invited, whether or not you have participated. Hope to see you there! If you have any queries, please get in touch, I have put all the info on the poster below.
Journey around Cornholme #2
Here is my response to Karen Alderson's journey around our village. This is just off the beaten track, at the wood just behind our house. Some call it Obadiah Wood, others call it Bluebell Wood (there are lots of bluebells in spring), but I call it Obadiah Bluebell Wood! Whatever it is called, I feel blessed to be living here. I hope you enjoy this video, Hector had to take acting lessons to perfect his performance!
Draw draw draw............
The Futuro is looking good!
It's been ages since I've written a blog. I have been busy beavering away juggling odd jobs (I work part time, which is why the artwork flow can be slow), and then, of course, came Christmas and New Year. Christmas was lovely and warm and cosy, and
Folk Music at World Vegan Month, Todmorden
A fantastic night of lively folk music and very tasty food was organised by the 3 Valley Vegans this November in Todmorden last week. It is so very exciting to see so many people supporting the vegan movement. Not everyone who turned up was a vegan and everyone was certainly welcome!
The evening was about fun, food and music and not about proselytising. However, I'm going to proselytise now and say that what is important is opening up a dialogue about veganism and dismantling an often bonkers and unreasonable culture that purports to love animals but turns a blind eye to the profound use and abuse of animals in our culture. We have conditioned ourselves into thinking it is OK to do this. Taking steps to reduce the unnecessary use of animal product, such as the new £5.00 and £10.00 note containing tallow, or understanding that the wearing of leather is no different to the wearing of fur other than one is socially acceptable (the bonkers part), is an enormous start.
Anyway, Mr Q and myself have filmed and photographed the event for posterity and here is what happened........
To celebrate World Vegan Month, 3 Valley Vegans presented a night of fun, food and fancy footwork in Todmorden, West Yorkshire, UK. Here is what happened...... For more information, go to www.3valleyvegns.org.uk Soundtrack: 'Vlad the Impala' by Lazlo Baby, film editor: Harriet Quilty
If you would like to find out more about World Vegan Month, visit
https://www.vegansociety.com/take-action/campaigns/world-vegan-month
Butterfly Ball
After a very busy summer, I feel like it has been ages upon ages and ages since I've been working in my beamed garret and getting any body of work out there. But even though I have not been physically making the work as much as I would like (I have the rest of my life), I'm always thinking about it, absorbing ideas, taking photos. Down time is just as important as the activity of making work.