Highlights of 2023
2023 was a year of non-stop activity and great creative variety. There were some large and important projects : a new Elder (Gerald), a new Care Home client (Brinsworth House),… Read More →
Sadness and happiness
Thinking about the fragility and poignancy of later life through my developing work on ‘Lola’: How happiness is inextricably coupled with sadness was a theme of the ‘Happy’… Read More →
Edna, March Person of the Month
Person of the month for March is Edna, who came into being as part of my Foundation Diploma graduation exhibit at West Dean College. Give that Edna’s chief hobby is… Read More →
Out and about
Recently, I very much enjoyed the Street Art Festival in Lake Worth Florida, a joyful non-commercial celebration of ‘art for art’s sake’. Painstaking work, all eventually to be destroyed by… Read More →
Shrunken heads
Experimental polymer clay project. When finished, Lola will stand about 16’’ (45cm) high. Lola was very patient throughout her 3 long sessions in the oven. She is now feeling much… Read More →
Person of the Month February 2020
Queen of the photoshoot, Ms February is Bette. Bette is the current Chair of the Curtain Call Care Home Escape Committee, when she is not escaping herself and wintering in… Read More →
Person of the month: January 2020
Mr January is Harold. Harold is a lofty 4’3’’ (130cm) and was once part of the ‘Flying Fig leaves’, a high wire and trapeze act. Harold’s dreams for 2020 include… Read More →
Shrunken heads
I am exploring the possibilities of representing the Curtain Call Care Home with some much smaller figures, 12’’ (30cm) tall, i.e. about two thirds smaller than the current characters. I… Read More →
Golden Girls
Yesterday, I went to see ‘That Golden Girls Show’ a parody of a long-running US sitcom, done with old lady puppets. Both the puppets (by Joel Gennari) and the puppetry… Read More →