That white thing there, that’s Nicole & I’s caravan, we’re getting closer to moving in.  The toilet & shower have been ripped out, a pot belly stove has started to be installed, the electric is being fixed, a big awning has been put up with a bench and plants, I’ve laid a new laminate floor and built a new table.   I can’t wait to move in.

p.s. I updated my website – rm-phoenix.co.uk & started a Tumblr - bordeltabernacle.tumblr.com

Last week, while working on the caravan, I managed to accidentally stab my right eye with a flathead screwdriver.  I was trying to unbend a panel pin, all my pressure was upwards and when the screwdriver slipped my arm bent back on itself forcefully bringing my hand to my face.  I collapsed my eyeball and lacerated my cornea, iris & pupil, and went into theatre the same day so the surgeon could refill my eye with jelly and stitch it up.  Currently I can only see light and colour out of my eye, it’s like looking through frosted glass, and my sight is going to stay this way for at least the next 6 to 12 months, at which point I should be able to get a corneal transplant which will correct this opacity.  Until then I will get used to this new way of looking, of having a ghostly presence on the right side of my vision.  I don’t know how this is going to affect my work, I feel a mixture of sadness, fear and intrigue.  I think it could precipitate an interesting new direction, who knows, we shall see.

I very much doubt they read this but I must say a massive thankyou to my eye consultant and the nurses in A&E, ENT & the Eye Department of Wrexham Maelor Hospital.  The NHS is a precious resource that we don’t treat well enough.  Thankyou also to my girl, for looking after me.

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Yo.  I’ve totally neglected this blog recently, life getting in the way, and now I can’t remember what I wanted to mention.  Stuff happened, it was cool, etc.

Tonight is my last night in London, tomorrow morning I get in a van and drive my life to North Wales to live in a caravan on the side of a valley with the woman I love.  When I moved here from Brighton over 2 years ago I said that it would either make me or break me, and while I don’t think it’s gone to either extreme I’m certainly leaving a different person to who I was, with a different understanding of my work, Art & the art world.  I love London, it’s an incredible place, and the drive and creativity that it harbours in the people and places is an incredible inspiration that frowns on laziness.  But it’s a hard place too, and recently I’ve been unable to spend time on my work and neglected enjoying the present, and I’m too poor to live here, and the underground & buses are an increasingly horrible experience.  The time I’ve spent in the countryside recently has been amazing, and I’m more excited than I can explain to be moving there, to have time and space to make work, chop wood, walk the dogs and to be with the best woman ever.

have a further look and buy it here, and then there is my new book from Museums Press…

have a further look here, and pre-order it here.

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now listen to this excellence…..