Saturday was a good day. Up early for a two hour drive to Southwell Minster in Nottinghamshire and the 'Spirit in Art Now' Study day. The day was hosted by Southwell Minister and Fr Matthew Askey, with speakers Dr Alison Milbank, Dr Richard Davey, Mark Cazalet And Matthew Collins. All presenting in a different aspect of how our understanding and creation of contemporary art, can lead us to an encounter with the scared. I have to say artist Mark Cazalet, was an inspiration a

Cold, Cold, Cold. I don't like the cold...but my studio is warm and the snow and cold is actually helping me researching, thinking and creating draft work for the Recycled & Renewed exhibition (June 10-17 Bicester). I'm having a go at abstract, well technically it's not abstract in the true sense, more non-objective in that I'm putting to paper my thoughts and feelings in a way that is not an abstraction of an object but a direct representation.. if you know what I mean. At