Playing around with a number of ideas at the moment on nationality, identity, competition, success… It was good to mess with oil paint....

Last summer I completed a large drawing installation for the On The Edge festival in Leeds, mapping through drawing the demographic...

Busy busy busy at the moment. But busy on a sewing machine rather than in a sketchbook or in the studio. Creating a large machined...

I like drawing the thing immediately in front of me. I like taking just what’s there, non negotiable. It’s often an empty glass. Although...

Lazy days. I just want to sit out or lie down in the sun. This might be summer. It’s bound to rain over the Jubilee weekend....

Been drawing this scene in idle moments for years. Surreptitiously. I’m supposed to be concentrating and listening and absorbing. Soon...

Back to people. It’s always back to people. The default setting. Sometimes it’s people mediated through the eyes of another. The head at...

Ok, so I’ve done some further thinking. This blog is ultimately looking at the creative process from my personal perspective. It began...

It’s springtime and time to re-think the purpose and function of #dailyfail. It’s all about looking at the process of creativity. It...

Well, it’s been something of a daily failure to achieve anything creative this last week. I’ve not been idle, but if I’m honest, it takes...

It’s been a day of ambiguities consequently reflected in this picture. What’s real, what’s not and does it matter anyway? Held the camera...

It’s been a busy busy week. After giant leaps with studio work last week, this has been the opposite. I haven’t had a break for a...

After four months, I’m forced to add a new category. Digital. The whole point initially of #dailyfail was to return to the unambiguous...

On a roll. Dragged out another painting I have been stewing about for longer than I care to think but there’s something about it which...

An exciting day in the studio. Radical transformations to not one, not two, but THREE paintings. Went mad with spray paint on two (large...

Back in the studio. Back to the current work. Or one of them (I always have a number of works on the go; it’s a practice I developed on...

Away from the mothership and with limited materials and time to hand, and with a lot of background work to do following my joint of the...

I’m really enjoying messing with the MagicShutter photo app, and using it to draw. It has some amazing possibilities: a degree of control...

Stuck in traffic circling London, art materials safely packed out of sight, darkness falling and the dawning realisation we will not be...

Some days it’s impossible to resist the lure of digital play. Particularly when you are travelling up and down the country in a train...