I was looking back over some of the reflective writing I did for my MA and came across a post I wrote titled 'Uncertainty' which reflected on one a group session during which we'd explored the work of William Kentridge. Speaking about his animated drawings he'd commented that part of the joy of his process is making fragments, that they show the process of thinking. He describes this as a means of making sense of the world. The making is a process of discovery. This chimed with me very...

The second major piece I had proposed was a rather large collage featuring the Isle of Dogs and the meander in the Thames around it. My idea was to put the humans in the water and take the land back to it's pre-docks state c.1775 when it was animal grazing and marshland. I really struggled with the imagery for the water. I knew I wanted it to be blue and silver and to reflect the sky-scrapers that now occupy Canary Wharf but I couldn't seem to make something that would work as a collage. ...

After all the fun at West Dean creating the letterpress prints the time came to get serious about using them. I'd noticed my parents...