Monday again.

You can't beat driving to college with a light frost on the ground and the sun just beginning to shine. It's an hours journey to college so there's plenty of time to think and plan my day. After my conversations on Friday with Eve and Richard I am confident to go with my instincts and do what I had in mind. My sculpture will depict in a very subtle way the coal mining industry, it is the simplification of my thoughts and sketches that is what I now enjoy. The pair of pit props I was donated will have reference to the silent world underneath the house; the miners toiling away so the big house on the hill can prosper and grow rich.

This now seems like a very fast change in me when I look back to September 2009 and the ' Fat Cat ' sculpture I did on the access course. I liked it but now it is a prime example of what I was back then; someone who over did it totally. It's funny but I was really proud of it at the time. If I had to do it again it would now look totally different....a subtle hint of a message about the bankers and the greed not everything including the kitchen sink.
So...that's progress! and a great experience. The 'Fat Cat' now sits in the garage gathering dust and tut tuts from me.

I suppose it is all the research into other artists, the galleries I have wondered around, listening and just developing naturally but just the sheer enjoyment of being able to spend my time doing what I enjoy, surrounded by my peers, having fun and sharing ideas with each other. Brilliant.