Friday 30 November 2012

Steve's page 40 - by Kate

I found this sheet discarded on the corner of Steve's dinning room table, i opened it to see if there was something on it but no - just folds and a corner missing - used for others purposes. It was if a Sol le Witt drawing had appeared by magic. But no, it was life that had happened....? I decided that this funny found sheet should go in as an example of shared collaborative working and co-authored pieces!!!!! and in reference to our conversation about the press on the kate and steve blog.

Friday 23 November 2012

Day 38 - 26/10/12

Soaked - here in Lincolnshire its the wettest year for over 100 years, very little drilling has been done, no landworking is possible and every farmer is despondent. I suspect we are not the only ones, it seems like everyones awash. The calendar and weather is against us. New rotations are being drawn up, Spring Barley for spring sowing as an alternative is being traded like pearls and everyones wishing for a really cold winter of hard continual frosts so we can get on the land. Drilling methods and drills are under discussion with little avail as still it rains. The melting of the ice sheets are being held responsible and still it seems we make no changes to our way of being.
So Ive put my sheet in soak today and will leave it there until i have to take it out for the show or the weather improves. Here is a photo of it in the sink. I have also turned the heating down.

Tuesday 20 November 2012

day 37 - 25th oct


sorry been distracted from blogging so here i start to post to get me up to date. the photo is shocking, but what it says is -

"you understand the soil, its structure - the land when you plough."

Edward Griffin - British and European Reverse Plough Champion.

Friday 2 November 2012

day 36 - 24 Oct. Kate

 I emptied my fire today of ash - here is some in the bucket i use alongside my garden trowel, that was my Grannys. I liked for this project that the ash comes from the wood from trees at the farm and this bucket full gets tipped on my garden - potash and all that.
A never ending cycle of chop down and build up.

day 34 and 35 - 22nd and 23rd Oct.


I had some friends to visit and their two sons/artists drew a landscape each. Above is camping in Wales by Oscar aged 5 and below is out the window of my studio by Joe aged 7.


39-30th Marcus

This is from a workshop in the park with Marcus - we are intending toproject an image of it onto the house - it is going to become part of the landscape.

38 -29th-drawing class

This is my picture from the drawing class - I am finding this really hard - again I think I am more interested in doing a drawing than looking but I did try my best and didn't feel like I wanted to subvert anything which is my normal transgressive position.  Ruskin would have admired the effort not the result.

37- 28th Pauls Picture

This is Paul's Page - it's the view from his bedroom window.

36-27th,. Grass

Just picked up some wet grass - mostly for the smell of dampness and the end of summer.

35 -26th-bookbinding

Today was the last day of "Language as Talisman" project - I had got heather the bookbinder to make these lovely CD cases- nobody really saw how nice they are - the world contains so many things which do not touch human hands these are all hand made. - thanks heather

34 25th- David Nash

We came back this day so I had to scrabble around for something when I got in after a long drive.  I found the David Nash book and remembered the story of David Nash going to find his wife to show him is new sculpture and saying

"Bloody hell love I've just done another one - look at that." and her nodding sympathetically - a page a day is starting to feel a bit like that

33 24th. A lost Page

I don't know what happened to todays page I gave it to Alice to do and haven't had it back yet

32 -23rd - watercolor

Three hour sat Looking - clearly I was more interested in painting a water color than a landscape.  It did make me look more and feel more - I don't think it's bad for a first attempt since 1978.

31 -22nd Chisel Beach

I walked down the beach and picked up all sorts of stuff and laid it out.  It looked nice but to much like a Tony Cragg or beach art so I just picked out the most aesthetic object - it's a piece of laminated wood the read looks a bit like a Miro painting - when we open the press I'm going to ask Kate to paint it for me for Christmas - I'm not going to try to as I will be disappointed.

30 -21st Sherbourne Abbey

Went in here today - always have a spiritual epiphany in these places they are big enough inside to feel more like landscapes - it is so easy to understand the power of god when you look at that amazing vaulted ceiling. 

29-20th

Got these in an art shop - intending to do a water colour of the landscape. Nervous about it.

28-18th

Picked Holly up from Sherbourne Station I had missed her - this is the book she made for me before she left for university. 


"Rain falls on the tracks
There are no reservations
on the train of life"

A Haiku I wrote for her when she left.

My Landscape became richer and Louder when she arrived.

27-18th journey to Dorset

I sat on it for the 5 hours to Dorset. it was a nice journey and good to get away everything felt damp and the volvo's heated seat was good.

26- 17th Alice drawing

Alice did this picture for me for my Birthday. I have put it as my screen saver on the computer.  The 17th was a computer day and it was nice to have something real not virtual to put in.  The picture is of me and Sunny fishing for things we like in the sea of life- we are fishing in the sky and underwater which reminds me of the book I was reading which is "Existentialism made easy." I got it because I wasn't sure if they new the title was ironic - on reading bits of it on the toilet I'm still not sure.

25 catch up 13th

This was from the 13th I'm not sure what day or number it is but was from the "Harry Major" exhibition we helped to stage at SOAR works