And so it begins.....

Next spring I will be launching my first exhibition of art infused poetry in Cornwall. This blog is to advertise and update events and above all keep me on track by recording the highs and lows of this enterprize in my posts.

Official Dates of Exhibitions

'The Old Press Gallery' (St Austell)
PREVIEW EVENING - Friday 22nd March 2013 7pm - 9pm

EXHIBITION STARTS - Saturday 23rd-28th March 2013

'Cornish Studies Library' (Redruth)
EXHIBITION STARTS - Tuesday 2nd-6th April 2013



Monday 20 May 2013

...and now a new chapter begins.

This morning I parted with my last essay for my FdA English Studies course. I'd saved the best till last: the threads of postmodernism ran its stitches through the Internet - relenting and poised with  unpicker, bated breath and ready to tear and pull the lines out, but I didn't, not once. The words went in and a sense of something came out. It was an essay of embroidered ideas and questions. I sewed my words to make a tapestry of thought patterns and after I read it through I placed it in a wallet, signed the form and.....cut the thread.....

This summer I will  be writing freely. I will endeavour to complete a post a week either with creative pieces or informative blather. There will also be a lot of  appearances from completion who will be busying itself about my files and neatly prising formations of poems into stacks ready for the big brown envelopes.

The Clemo conference is nearly here and I've booked an appearance for the sun to come out and shine for that first week in June. Whether or not the burning mass will turn up is another matter...but I hope it does as I need its light to shine through three large windows at Wheal Martyn!

The chapters waiting so back to work....


Saturday 11 May 2013

It's all going on.....literally

St Ives literary festival is on and tomorrow I will be experiencing it for the first time. My two main reasons for being there is the 'Text Tent' starting at 5.30 which I believe will house under canvas an interesting mix of art based poetry and Sue Farmer's performance of John Harris's life and poetry put to song starting at 7pm at the Art's Cafe. As I'm also a keen songwriter and lyricist in the band 'Sound of Fable' this aspect of story telling to music holds a real fascination for me.
I shall be attempting to review these events next week.....and still I'm writing essay's...is the end in sight, I think a see a twinkling light....

May 21st the paints and clay come out and I will subject two beautifully sparse canvases to brush and knife whilst some wild jazz bounces off the walls......bliss..




Wednesday 1 May 2013

Set amongst us again...the arousal of Jack Clemo

I have yet more joyful news regarding the conference on Jack Clemo....

 
             ...and here is the part where my good self is mentioned (so very proud)

Jack Clemo Exhibition

Wheal Martyn
Friday 31st May - 9th June (Opening Hours)


Peruse a variety of Clemo related artefacts. This exhibition gets to the heart of Clemo and his work and includes drawings of Clemo by Heather Spears, portraits by Lionel Miskin, his writing desk and typewriter, photos, letters, manuscripts and a Clemo-inspired installation by local artist Kyla Sidwell. This is the first time that all of these items have been exhibited together. Artefacts have been collated from the Jack Clemo Memorial Room, the University of Exeter Archive, the Royal Cornwall Museum and the Wheal Martyn Archive.

Entry will be free for conference attendees and the parts of the exhibition in the foyer of Wheal Martyn will be free for all. Access to exhibits displayed in the Wheal Martyn museum will be charged at the usual entry price.                                                                                                                                                                      
 
 
I am working on a new canvas piece especially for this exhibition whilst streaming out the words to finish my essays on deadline, 20th May. It is this Friday when I'll be donning the headphones again and sitting opposite the lovely Sue Farmer on Redruth Radio, expect at least one Clemo poem to be read aloud....and probably a couple of mine too...
Just had to mention my long hike today over to St Enodoc to see;
 
 John Betjemen's resting place,
 so feminine and full of grace,
open petalled, pretty church,
woven scrolls that sliver-search
 does my womanly eye behold
a book open and telling-told
 how my sex was once sold 
how art thou Bible bold