After a hectic few days, ‘Boxed’ is now complete and sitting in a trade show in the Shanghai Exhibition Centre. It’s been a frantic couple of days, pulling together a piece which I had originally planned to piece together in 5 days. So it may lack the finesse and minute detail I had originally wanted, [...]
Archive for March, 2011
Boxed
Posted in projects, Rural Art on March 29, 2011 | 1 Comment »
boxes
Posted in landscape, projects, Rural Art on March 26, 2011 | 1 Comment »
So, eventually, this afternoon, my materials arrived by courier. I can’t tell you how much of a relief that was to see the big black shiny car arrive with them. I had all the boxes pre-cut and scored back in the UK, I actually got them cut by my local picture framer – keeping things [...]
another little tree post
Posted in landscape, projects, Rural Art on March 25, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
My prepared paper from the UK has finally cleared customs. All that is needed is for the packages to be x-rayed to make sure I’m not smuggling any facebook apps into the country, and then it can be delivered. So, just to get my eye in I tootled downtown to get some Chinese paper for [...]
paper trees
Posted in landscape, Random Images, Rural Art on March 24, 2011 | 2 Comments »
While I wait for bureaucracy to release the materials I need from customs here in China, here’s some trees I’m looking at for the ‘Boxed’ installation next week: In the 1930′s, Chinese artist Chiang Yee visited the Lake District, armed with one pair of shoes his brushes, ink and paper – he ventured over the fells in [...]
Nines and Tens
Posted in funding, landscape, rant, Rural Art on March 1, 2011 | 3 Comments »
At last the weather decided to play ball with me and it’s a fabulous day up here perched atop Nine Standards Rigg. The rigg itself is named after the nine huge cairns straddling this ridge overlooking, well pretty much overlooking the entire Eden Valley, the Eastern Lake District Fells and on a clearer day, the [...]
