Recently, I have again been working on things I can’t talk about, and that can be hard as an artist, as you want to be able to talk about what you are working on, as the process is interesting (to me at least the only thing that is interesting is the process) So secret projects on the go mean that most of what I am doing I can’t talk about at all. And they are big projects too, so they are really taking their time and there is a lot of thinking and deciding, and I keep changing things as I have creative control so I just keep changing my idea,s which adds to project creep.
I have been making fewer pieces this year because of the other things I took on, including taking a course that wasn’t worth the time it took. And I have been trying to take a break in between working on my secret project, and just haven’t been pushing myself like I have in previous years. Partially because I don’t need to and partially because I have made myself ill in the past pushing too hard.
One project I can now talk about is my exhibition at the Hub in Fleetwood. Open weekdays, enter through the Bold Street entrance of the old Fleetwood Hospital, follow the signs for Healthier Fleetwood, past the campus for Blackpool and the Fylde Micro Campus and onto the next corridor.
The image is taken by David Gore from Healthier Fleetwood and was posted on Fleetwood Hubs’ Facebook page.
The exhibition starts at sea with fishing boats and then goes to land with Lighthouses and the Fleetwood Museum, and there are some of my colouring sheets that I made for the Fleetwood Sketchwalks last year, available to take away. The exhibition is made up of my working drawings, prints, paintings and colouring sheets. It is all about Fleetwood and the history.
The Hub itself is in development, the start of a community location, using space that was going to waste in the town. There will be a community cafe opening in the foreseeable future.
But if you are in Fleetwood, definitely check out the work, it isn’t priced as the frames aren’t mine, but I have commissions open, and I can make something similar.