A couple of years ago I was asked to run some workshops for the Lake District National Park Authority as part of their ‘Excellence in Design’ programme. It was a bold and fascinating project which sought to explore what is good design, how it works in the context of the Lake District and inform a [...]
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Here today, here tomorrow
Posted in architecture, landscape, rant, Uncategorized on October 30, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
A nice cup of tea
Posted in funding, rant, Rural Art, tagged art, funding, heritage, rant, rural, sedbergh, shrigley, tea on September 12, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
As an individual artist I realised long ago that you couldn’t rely on public money to pay you a living. I’m sure there are artists and even more arts organisations who feel the state owes them a living, but that’s something I feel very uncomfortable about.
