Well I was mostly working on larger paintings this Summer, keeping myself to myself and not taking part in lots of shows and events like I tend to do (besides the customary Art Car Boot Fair events of course and the rather thankless task of a charity postcard auction or two) This non-stop production of (very) affordable smaller pieces and the notions of art for it or the Cheap Art Manifesto is big part of what I do, but there is larger work always in production here in the studio, things that, dare I say, have been considered for a lot longer – not that everything isn’t  very very considered, it is every 10cm canvas, ever piece painted on a recycled bit of cardboard, but the bigger pieces can take up months of layer building, years even. I tell you this by way of telling you some of what I was doing this Summer. We have just kicked in with a new season of post Summer Cultivate online shows, the first of which, What We Did This Summer  opened last week.   

What We Did This Summer, an eight artist group show, curated by Cultivate founders Emma Harvey and myself, Sean Worrall, opened last week. The exhibition is once again hosted on the Organ magazine website, go explore it here. Curating has become a big part of my art practice, reluctantly at first but it is a big part of the whole thing now.