I’m very excited to be moving my studio to Ocean Studios, Royal William Yard, Stonehouse, Plymouth from August 1st, where I’ll be sharing a large studio with Sue Lewry, whom I studied with on the MA. I’m sure that this move will lead to a lot of new opportunities and I’m really looking forward to getting involved with everything on offer.

I also decided to enter Opens again this year and am happy to say that so far, I’ve been accepted at 2 out of 3 places. Rejection is still horrible when it happens but it’s all part of the process and I’m not going to let it put me off.

I’ve also enjoyed going to some cracking exhibitions this year - the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize touring exhibition showing the winners from 2023 was recently on at the Arts Institute, UoP and it was first class. The BA graduation shows at Arts University, Plymouth were also excellent and I enjoyed seeing the work of some of the students whom I’ve supported over the last two years. We’ve also been to Roscoff again on holiday so my thoughts are now turning to thinking about making the next body of work…