• Day 4: 29th July 2022

    Day 4: 29th July 2022

    Today I finished covering the rooty cables – it’s 3.5 metres now – and the ceiling at the highest point is about the same. I was still feeling slightly panicky about getting 4 of these made, so I continued with the tree-stumpy one from day 1. I was not feeling very positive about my sculptures…

  • Day 3: 28th July 2022

    Day 3: 28th July 2022

    There was a children’s art workshop going on this morning, so I had a lot of young visitors curious to know what I was doing. Many of them wanted to help, so I got them covering balloons with cardboard-mâché; they did a fantastic job and many will come back and see their work incorporated into…

  • Day 2: 27th July 2022

    Day 2: 27th July 2022

    I’m a little overwhelmed by the day I’ve had. Hertford seems to have a very high concentration of lovely people, and most of them seem to gravitate towards Courtyard Arts. I kept having conversations with new people, each one arty or interesting and usually both, each one engaged and lively and curious, with whom I…

  • Day 1: 26th July 2022

    First day of the residency! Courtyard Arts is a thriving arts hub in a quiet corner of Hertford. Once a stables, the gallery has a flagstone floor, sloping ceiling and big french windows looking out onto a courtyard where people have coffee and cake (sold inside). There are two studio spaces making up the two…