Above are the views of Newfoundland, I should have disembarked there being better prepared for the weather.Greetings from the soggiest Boston. I was prepared for the cold and ought to have shares in thermal underwear production judging by the amount I have brought with me but actually wellies and a brolly would have been better. Boston is sooooo friendly, since the tube station I have fallen in to conversation with several people. I have discussed dentists, the weather (when they realised I am english), Liverpool accents, Oystercards and human rights in east Timor with another person baffled by the transport system.
Off now to see the Museum of Fine Art.
I apologise for sending a link recently to a you tube clip that turns out to be private. I shall have a go at getting it public or just take my work for it that I had fun and it worked well. Just as well the post was not entitled 'wrestling with mud' or I would have had far more unhappy viewers
I am on a countdown to America. Wednesday I head off to Heathrow at stupid o clock for a flight into Boston and spend a couple of cultural days in galleries before heading off to Vermont Sculpture Center for March. A whole month of sculpture, how fab is that!
I had such a good time last time I was in America at the Andres Institute in New Hampshire and met some amazing artists, there are plans to meet up with some of them, weather permitting.
The map of New England shows places of my childhood in Essex and Suffolk but scrambled as though all the names have been thrown in the air, I feel I shall get lost quite easily.
Back to the packing-: passport, tickets, sketchbook, cuddly toy and portable yoghurt maker..........
Fun and frolics with a lump of clay on friday
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyMCHwga6tg
thanks to Andrew Pierce at Chelmsford College
I have just spent a lovely evening at the Chelsea Arts Club in good company, its not often you can say that about an AGM! The Free Painters and Sculptors Society invited me to join them after the 'Then and Now' exhibition in Pall Mall last year. I thought I should make sure they meant it by turning up and seeing if I was allowed to stay!
http://www.freepaintersandsculptors.co.uk http://freepands.blogspot.co.uk
At a great opening at the Royal British Society of Sculptors, www.rbs.org.uk another member paid me a huge compliment. She not only likes my work but said that if I was in a locked room I would make a sculpture out of the carpet. I think I might have that on my website.
'Time Out' magazine featured the 'Curious Course' that I ran last term ! Brilliant, but is that my 15 minutes of fame? Students signed up for a mystery course and we ended up with 80 people on the waiting list! Great night, lots of laughs and students got to do something they had never tried before, I think I have a great job!
