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Gelatine Printing Workshop At John Rylands Library

Posted on October 4, 2014 by notes to the milkman

Currently the third Free For Arts Festival is taking place in Manchester. I put is a proposal for a gelatine printing session as part of the festival and this took place at the John Rylands Library. While I’ve been to … Continue reading →

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We like a work of art more if the artist has an unusual name

Posted on October 1, 2014 by notes to the milkman

It’s about two months since I last posted anything on this blog other than reblogs from The Humour of the Great War blog. However, I came across an article by Ben Ambridge in the Torygraph called Ten tricks the brain … Continue reading →

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10 Ways to Revive Your Studio Spirit When You’ve Hit a Brick Wall

Posted on July 12, 2014 by notes to the milkman

Every day a newsletter pops into my email box from ArtistsNetwork. Now they are a commercial organisation but nevertheless I find their blogs and information very interesting if you ignore the underlying ‘buy this’  message. Today I read this blog … Continue reading →

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Take To The Trees

Posted on March 10, 2014 by notes to the milkman

The current exhibition at neo:gallery in Bolton is a two-woman show called Take to the Trees. (Not Talk to the Trees, which would have been about the Prince of Wales, I assume.) Margaret Jackson’s work is mainly encaustic paintings while Julie … Continue reading →

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Sheffield Print Fair – The Return of the Native

Posted on November 18, 2013 by notes to the milkman

Yesterday the Management and I went across the Pennines to the Sheffield Print Fair. It was organised by Jane Elliot who I know from her printing days at Hot Bed Press in Salford but who now lives in Sheffield. She … Continue reading →

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What Do Poems Make? Prizes!

Posted on June 23, 2013 by notes to the milkman

Today’s Sunday Torygraph had an article entitled “Poetic alchemy that turns landscape into art” by Jeremy Noel-Tod. It referred to three Cornish poets one of whom was Bob Cobbing who “pursued an inversely verbal art. For Cobbing, the sound and … Continue reading →

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Where I’m Going Wrong!

Posted on June 20, 2013 by notes to the milkman

I’ve figured it out!! Recently I came across this self portrait by L S Lowry whose major exhibition at the Tate opens next week. Then I saw a photograph of Picasso. But when I saw Denis Whiteside (who I mentioned in my … Continue reading →

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Sand Sea and Spray 2013 – Part The Second

Posted on June 18, 2013 by notes to the milkman

Leaving Foundry (without an ‘a’, Mr Ross!) to work on his Souxie, I walked towards the Church Street Car Park. On the way I looked at the other pieces along the wall of the Winter Gardens. I was not always sure … Continue reading →

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Sand Sea and Spray – Part The First

Posted on June 16, 2013 by notes to the milkman

Today I had a day out in sunny Blackpool – and it was sunny too! Robin Ross, I understand, was tearing what little hair he has out on Friday evening, thinking that the whole weekend was going to be ruined … Continue reading →

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Art Quote of the Day – Six Days On

Posted on June 14, 2013 by notes to the milkman

Earlier this evening, I upload the sixth Art Quote of the Day. I’m enjoying finding quotes and appropriate images – usually paintings by the artist. I hope you are enjoying looking at them. If you’ve not yet visited the new blog, … Continue reading →

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