work in progress (detail) Celestial Suburbia (Chapeltown) Can’t decide if progress is slow, fast, on schedule or behind. All that can be...

surrendering to process I was talking with a fellow studio holder yesterday about controlling process, and surrendering to process. It’s...

schematic layouts Procrastination takes many forms. The outside world mutters about it as though it’s a bad thing: but procrastination...

experiments with media I thought I had one of those eureka moments yesterday. I thought I’d found the perfect medium to work directly...

studio floor study Apart from walking the streets of Chapeltown, Harehills and Scott Hall yesterday drawing streets of suburbia and...

ideas phase Sunday pack down. Monday tidy day. Tuesday back to serious brainstorming and drawing and activity. Blake’s Jerusalem. Weirdly...

No real surprise there. Moving up in scale never allows for replication of the studies, and effectively it’s all still a work in...

The result was I finally put down the brush at 11pm. Since this is not the summer soltice, it meant I was painting in the dark. Add the...

, first layers If I begin to think about the amount of surface to be painted between now and close of play Wednesday, it seems...

Tool Workshop (Michael) casting location (Rob) Sound Studio (Bob) painting space (gillian) The theme of the ongoing project at Left Bank...

more experiments with material Day six is an achievement not least because for most of it I was at a charity fund-raising art fair and...

Wah. But still, so much exciting stuff is happening in the midst of the angst that I would far sooner be facing the tough bits than not....

drawing compositions Day four began with bleary eyes, a list of objectives for the day, and yet another interminable list of things to be...

Experiments with paint Day three and Left Bank if anything seems even colder than days one and two. Luckily the warmth of the resident...

Light patterns of evening Second day, and the temporary studio is in place. A series of foraging sorties to the conveniently located...

hidden passages Ten days to make art in response to one of the most extraordinary spaces in Leeds. Ten days to inhabit a freezing Gothic...

#dailyfail (landscapes) Those formulaic “How To” instruction books for acrylic/watercolour/oil landscape/figure/portraiture/still life...

Implausably green Some years back I acquired one of those huge boxes of landscape pastels. They arrived and I took one look and thought...

Unprimed surfaces are obviously very absorbent and very slow and normally the exact type of surface I hate most. But in all these recent...

prayer study Having created an abominable surface the other day of sticky muddy glaze, I ended up sticking old pieces of tissue over to...