I can hardly believe it is 2010 already and I have had such limited internet access since moving house in the Autumn of last year. A little update on recent activities and artistic plans for the future... In November I took part in an exhibition called 'The Red Dot Sale' where I was abel to exhibit a series of prints not shown before in Jersey. It was a luxury to get art work framed, en mass, and share an exhibition space with many local artists I admire. The exhibition was for one night only, at the Grand Hotel, Jersey and was a successful event featuring art, music and banter. In December I was involved in a week long lantern making workshop with two UK based artists Sean Braithwaite (London) & Kirsten Taylor (Lantern House, Cumbria). We visited ten primary schools and engaged with Yr 5 & 6 students in order to form illumination for an evening procession. Sadly the weather was not on our side but the week itself was rewarding and entertaining. Morocco has given my imagination a little jolt into action and I might end up using some colour after a very long pause in pigment. Liverpool sandwiched the adventure where I got the opportunity to see some fantastic galleries, public artwork, live music at the fabulous Par Street Studios, as well as some brilliant public sculptures and the Liverpool Museum. This year I have been asked to take part in a project which will include the work of six Jersey based artists. The commission asks us each to customise an ostrich eggs for Easter. The work will be featured in the Spring Edition of the Jersey Now. Workshops in local schools and youth groups will continue yet I hope that I can create a better work/art ratio where I can really submerge myself in some new visual investigations of my own. A Postcard Project will see a collaboration between Annetta Norris, Chantal Venton and myself, providing a series of contemporary postcard designs specific to Jersey. I am hoping this new, smaller format will suit me and spur on a more concise collection of new drawings, collages and prints. Later in the year I am to exhibit new art work with colleagues from Highland's College. I believe it will be at the John Falle gallery in the Autumn term. Other exhibitors include Mark MaCarty, Glyn Burton, Jason Butler, Nick Romeril, Alison Richards, Sarah Jordan, Chantal Venton, resident artists Corey Moore, PJ Thompson, Jo Craven and very possibly many more. 'Histories' is a project I am currently curating and follows on directly form the exhibition ,'2100', instigated by Hugh Thomas last August. I am in the process of finding an appropriate space to show the work and secure funding. It is a 30 strong collaboration of mixed media responses to the detritus from modern life. The exhibition will open up questions of use, waste and function for the objects in our life, set out for audiences of 2100. The project will take the form of a museum fiction. There are a million and seven other projects I hope to realise this year. One of them includes up-laoding many more images onto this website as they have been a long time coming. One step at a time, as I know the good ideas will stick and grow and those which were doomed to fail will effortlessly drip out of my ears whilst I sleep.