So… this is it. What the main focus of my creative time will be doing for most of the year… watching the 8 of us steamroll our way around the UK’s best and worst galleries. First up BRUM! at Custard Factory… then onto Manchester for round 2!Come over to http://www.brothersofthestripe.co.uk/ for a deeksies…  

So… this is it. What the main focus of my creative time will be doing for most of the year… watching the 8 of us steamroll our way around the UK’s best and worst galleries. First up BRUM! at Custard Factory… then onto Manchester for round 2!

Come over to http://www.brothersofthestripe.co.uk/ for a deeksies… 
 

Thinking about future creative spaces is high on the agenda. To be honest, it excites me more than the work. Having been around some pretty exciting people in the past year, who have developed their own drawing dens… its about time mine represented more than just a desk. 

Simon Peplows space may not be all singing all dancing beauty spot… but its a perfect example of making do and making hay. Who doesnt love a well managed attic?

The Blue of Longing

“If you could’ve found out what Rosebud meant, I bet that would’ve explained everything.”

 
No, I don’t think so; no. Mr. Kane was a man who got everything he wanted and then lost it. Maybe Rosebud was something he couldn’t get, or something he lost. Anyway, it wouldn’t have explained anything… I don’t think any word can explain a man’s life. No, I guess Rosebud is just a… piece in a jigsaw puzzle… a missing piece.”  

New Year. New Blog. New Style. New

                            

Like all other years, people come and people go. Some more important than others. A role call of some of those can be found here here and here. A major loss to the city and to my everyday… it hasn’t been the same since they left. Well… new year, new people, new stationary