Where does the time go?

I guess I shouldn't go walking in Wales (fantastic weather!) to the Len Lye exhibition at the IKON gallery http://www.ikon-gallery.co.uk/, to see friends in Hartlepool, on a couple of excellent courses at RBSA Gallery http://www.rbsa.org.uk/ - the first was Dynamic Drawing with Annette Pugh and the second was on Drawing with Pastels and I liked the work from the tutor so much that I brought a work which I am currently drooling over at home.  (RBSA Gallery are running a Summer School which look good starting 11 July with disciplines from textiles, to portraits and life drawing to watercolour and woodcuts and artists' books.  I've got the schedule out alongside my diary to fit in the ones I can do during the 'holidays'). 

I did a great photography day at the Photofilia studio in Brum with David Rann  and was pleased with the images I got but of course the model was professional and very easy to work with ....

We had some excellent Visiting Practitioner talks at BCU during the month - Shane Waltner http://www.shanewaltener.com/ who works across numerous disciplines, Dinu Li http://www.dinuli.com/ who works in video, photography and film and Robert Orchardson who is currently showing at the IKON. 

This last weekend I was on a Digital Photography/Photoshop course again in Wales with Mark Sisson http://www.marksissonphoto.co.uk/ where I learnt alot - have just brought a new Sony A390 camera from Focus on Imaging at NEC this week so no excuses for getting much better photos!