Thursday 26 February 2009

A Modern Way of Letting Go!

Thought I'd also add a winter image of the 'Gallery at Laurieston' - and here it is!! Every flake is different, allegedly!

'Snarley'


'The Golden Section (ii)'

Hi, again
All those jobs that one needs to do early in the new year are slowly progressing. Although its scary to think that we are fast-approaching MARCH! How did that happen.
February has been good up here, I've managed to get out with my camera on a few occasions and thoroughly enjoyed doing so. All this means that I've got a lot of images to assess and value their merits and determine whether they deserve to be taken further - this is an onerous but vital part of my job. Its totally unglamorous but ultimately critical!
It's been a proper winter this year and I've loved it!
I've also had to select two images to best represent my body of work for inclusion in the forthcoming Spring Fling taster exhibition to be held in Dumfries and then Stranraer. This is my first time in the Fling and is something I am looking forward to with, I hope, healthy trepidation! Selecting these two images took me hours and hours - I do hope I have chosen wisely. I felt it important to include both a Galloway landscape scene and a fine-art image. I'll post them here (see above) and hope I receive positive feedback from you, my most discerning critics!
I've also been progressing with my flyer and business cards needs and feel more confident with my approach - DL flyers are the way forward Hannah!!!
Exciting news: I this week met with another local artist to consider collaboration. Mary Smith is a poet and writer whose work I have been aware of for some time following her joint-workings with sculptor Matt Baker and artist Silvana McLean - I was very taken with the outcomes of both these ventures but particularly by the moving and emotional words from Mary which connected excellently with the powerful pieces sculpted by Matt at the Cairnsmore of Fleet reserve - worth it, trust me!!! Anyway, Mary and I met and had a think about the potential between us. Suffice to say this has had my thought-processes working overtime and brainstroming ideas together with Mary - already I think we have many many avenues to follow, some which excite me greatly!
See Mary's site here: http://marysmith.co.uk/index.asp
I called in to see Hannah McAndrew earlier in the week and had a chat and a cuppa - cool! It was great to see Hannahs vision coming together as her plans for a wood-fired kiln is developing well - not sure about the wood-stacking though!! Could do better, particularly Pauls poor effort!

My footie team still struggle - come on AFC!!

Until next time - love to you all
phil
xxxxxx

Sunday 8 February 2009

Albert Goes West





Hello!
Its been birthday time in our house and yours truly has hit the rubicon-inspired forty sixth. Its funny but if you say forty-six quickly it doesn't seem as bad.
We've had a cold, cold couple of weeks but no snow - until today, its been humping it down for the last couple of hours. So Alex and I are going to sally forth and have both a snowball fight, he doesn't stand a chance, and build a snowman - cool.
Thanks for all the feedback regarding my recent uploads to the website.
I decided on a walk up Screel Hill during the week to see what I could see. It was fantastic and certainly got my little old heart pumping - I always think its harder walking on your own because you don't know how fast you are going, does that make sense?
Anyway I'll put a couple of images up to illustrate the Screel experience.
Until the next time.
Love
phil

And look here is the snowman, Freddie (Alex calls everything Freddie!) and one with Alex, Joe, me and Freddie in our garden. Gosh, I wish I could work out how to put the images where you want them to go - over to you, Han!