Another photo from the 365 day photo challenge to provoke ideas: It’s a photo of a beautiful building in Vancouver. We saw it on the edge of the Gastown District when we visited last year. Distinctive and visual, in a district where many of the high-rise buildings have gardens and trees on the roof. Some … Read more
In the early 1980s I worked for a couple of years as a Community Artist. I was part of a team of artists from different disciplines. We worked with a diverse range of people from 8 to 80 years old, most of them with some sort of special need. Sometimes we worked on our own, … Read more
The concept of creating a body of work was a concept I had heard of before, but when I came across the book by Pamela Slim, that was where I found the idea expanded upon. This wasn’t just about books or paintings or films or whatever creative venture we turn our attention to. She describes … Read more
My latest creative project is morphing into something quite different. It began as a poetry sequence. Since 1985 I have been returning to the character called Blue every few years and writing about him. He is a kind of anti-hero crossed with a detective from a Raymond Chandler novel and a blues singer. I have … Read more
It begins like this, yes, a small kiss then everything comes into gentle focus each twist of the lens just a speck of dust, then we must remember why we are here, set out in previous lives Sometimes the external structures which we place on things can really help us to be more creative. … Read more
The picture with this post is a fragment of a huge canvas produced by the team I work with from a project we did with the Manchester Camerata earlier this year. If you key in “Creative Learning” into the search box on this blog you will find a series of posts written over the last 18 months … Read more
A couple of weeks ago we went to see a temporary exhibition at the Lady Lever Art Gallery in Port Sunlight, Wirral. It was a collection of Drawings of Edward Burne-Jones, the Pre-Raphaelite painter. I was really impressed with the collection of drawings and watercolours by Burne-Jones together with some of the paintings for which … Read more
We need to look closely in the present moment. It’s so easy to just walk past, head full of cloudy thoughts of past and future. But… stop for a moment and really look. Then we can see the beauty in front of us. Walking with a camera helps with this. If we have a hammer … Read more
I have just ordered the latest work by Richard Skelton. Richard lives in Cumbria and runs a press with his partner Autumn Richardson called Corbel Stone Press. They produce finely printed collections of poetry and prose as well as CDs and downloads of Richard’s music. The music is ambient, gentle washes of sound that build … Read more
