Last Thursday saw the launch of the inaugural Big Freeze Art Festival which is being organised and run by Charlotte Connelly, museum curator at The Scott Polar Research Institute (SPRI) in Cambridge.

My upcoming exhibition, Touching Ice will showcase work completed since returning from Antarctica as Artist in Residence for The Friends of The Scott Polar Research Institute.

I’m honoured and thrilled to announce a very special recorded performance of the Shackleton Symphony at the private view for my upcoming exhibition, Touching Ice.

When I started this blog a friend of mine said to me that the most important thing I should do, is be consistent - that people who follow blogs like to know that on a particular day every week or every month, there will be something new for them to look at.

Frank Zappa once said that without deviation there can be no progress. Well, I am certainly enjoying being a deviant in the workshop at the moment, experimenting with encaustic monotypes, a type of printing technique using hot wax, which I've never tried before.

Polar research. Where to begin?

For an excited newbie like me, it’s like jumping into a puddle only to find yourself in desperate need of a life vest.

I found out last week that I have been selected as the Friends of The Scott Polar Research Institute’s Artist in Residence for 2016 and this coming March, I will be joining the crew of HMS Protector on her journey south to the Antarctic.