Rook Skull 1
Finally got back to carving and came up with a first attempt at creating a skull. A rook skull became the object of re-creation as I found a baby one which had fallen from the rookery in the local Church … Continued
Message in a Bottle found on beach in Whitby Harbour !
It was only to be expected, as the tide turned at Staithes the bottle floated out to sea and has found it’s way down the coast to Whitby Harbour. The party of visiting school children in their yellow jackets have … Continued
Message in a Bottle found in Staithes Harbour !
This image was inspired by a piece of Sculpture which has had a Gallery of Modern Art, MIMA, erected by it’s side. The sculpture is called ‘Bottle of Notes’ and was created in 1993 by Claes Oldenburg and … Continued
Redcar vertical Pier One & Other
Having just moved to border country on the North East Coast, that is the border between North Yorkshire and what lies beyond, the couldn’t be missed opportunity to create yet another, One & Other, presented itself when I saw the … Continued
Mobile Phone Test post
This is a test post not a fence post. View from the top of Redcar Vertical Pier looking out across the Tees estuary wind farm and on towards Hartlepool, locally known as the ‘ Elta Skelta ‘.
After the Hack
Yes, I was away on holiday when the Hack happened and so the site has been down for three weeks so far. I am just getting to grips with the reconstruction, I was about to update the theme anyway … Continued
Emley & One & other
As a regular visitor to the Yorkshire Sculpture Park and resident of West Yorkshire the ever present presence of Emley Moor mast creates a sensation of someone looking over your shoulder all the time. When you’re out and about you’ll … Continued
Culminating thoughts….
It’s strange to be in two minds, one is focused on adding content from my old website which was focussed on providing a record of finished works and the other is focussing on providing a record of the journey from … Continued
Finally …. WordPress……Yeh!
Hi, Finally I have achieved WordPress status after reading about new developments in managing websites about three years ago. At that time I was hand crafting MisterBurnley.com using Webfusion and Nvu then ftp to upload. Well now all the bits … Continued
Th’Owd Towser
What a way to be woken up. I feel like I’ve just got out of jail!!! It’s time to stop the ‘Rip Van Winkle’ mode and ‘ flag a blog ‘. I’ll come to ‘Th’Owd Towser’ shortly but ‘Hear … Continued
Brown Paper Bag
Now, mentioning the fact that paper bags are sometimes square is pushing a link to my last post in case it sinks without trace due to lack of activity. Bit like the performer running around keeping plates balancing on the … Continued
This years entry !
Maybe this is the start of a more active blog, who knows, I just found an extension for the Firefox web browser called, ScribeFire, yes you guessed it, a blogging tool. Now I can prep, preview then publish as and … Continued
ARTLINE08 at Slawit Studio
ARTLINE08 was the first art show at the recently opened Jane Galvin Gallery in the Slawit studio which is located in a village called Slaithwaite in the Colne Valley, Huddersfield, West Yorkshire. As you can see the preview night got … Continued
Walks around Marsden
Installed Picasa on my Ubuntu box during the summer and just got around to checking out some of the newer features. ( Picasa is default set to automatically update to beta versions ). So here is my first blog using … Continued
Holmfirth Art Week
Open to the public from 10.00 a.m. today and one of the major art happenings around Huddersfield is the annual Holmfirth Art Week. Two of the Soul Oaks are at the show all week drinking in the heady arty brew … Continued
Lunch and a bit of painting in the outside studio
Needed to take some photos of the first picture in the second series of Entanglement images. To get some even lighting I hang the paintings on the outside wall of the studio. Ahhh ! the wall has weathered the winter … Continued
Off, off, and away in our beautiful VaWoom
Woke at 4.30 this am, been surfing since then. Still need to get green transport attached to Vee UU transport then head for campsite 1 close to Sizergh castle, south lakes for a couple of, nights!! Surfing, the name that … Continued
What’s Cooking tonight, Mr. B?
Been hunting down a magazine copy of netobjects fusion 8 that I lent to a friend. Well, he resides the other side of Upperthong, about ten mins away so off I went. Turns out it’s not the right … Continued
Blog the Blog
Verging terror-tory as you can read and therefore have some in – sight ( maybe mental pictures ) you may deduce that this is the first time I have entered the sphere of blogging. Today I’m exploring setting up the … Continued