And the forest began to sing.

I’ve been busy in the studio all since I got back from Sweden.

Just over a week ago my Super 8 films arrived back from the lab in Berlin, so I’ve been reviewing footage and editing by hand, which has proven to be so much fun!

And I am also loving my newly renovated studio. I let the old carpet give way to a painted concrete floor. I did it all myself and am very pleased with the result.

I love the hands on approach to working with film. I am a great lover of medium format film cameras, Polaroid and now Super 8. But I work with digital video as well of course, and my digital SLR is invaluable when it comes to research photography, documentation of work and stop motion animation. Having said that though, editing by hand is a whole different experience to Final Cut and methods of distressing and painting on to the film can also be employed, making the medium more closely related to painting and drawing.

Yesterday I attended a professional practice seminar for visual artists at the Nun’s Island theatre in Galway. Speakers included Michael Fortune, Mark St John Ellis, Aine Phillips, Aideen Barry and others. Thank you to Maeve at Galway Arts Centre for organising such an informative and enjoyable event and to Galway City Council for sponsoring it. It was great to meet and talk to so many of my fellow artists too and the cold weather prompted us to have hot whiskeys in a nearby pub afterwards. Great day!

I also want to say thank you to all who came and saw our show in Tulca, I am very happy about the great feedback I got on my video piece and on the space and installation of the show as a whole. (See more info in the video section of this site).

Tonight there’s a fundraising disco in the Galway Arts Centre, not to be missed!