I thought I'd have a go at submitting some work to the RA's Summer Exhibition this year. None of the ideas that I'm ever likely to realise [for practical and/or financial reasons] are paintings so it made a change to daub a bit of acrylic onto some canvas and I haven't been able to stop now! I'm not holding my breath but...

A few photos from the London Calling opening party. Top ones by @mamfawilde, bottom one by @brain_war, who I assume is Brian Whar? If that is incorrect or any objections to the photos use, let me know. That's me and Sam on the right of Brian's photo and me at the top of the stairs with a beer! And my dead pubs in pink. There's a closing party on February 1st. Address in earlier post. And don't forget you can buy the exhibition zine here...

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At 14:39 in this video my After Barnett painting appears for about 5 seconds. I have calculated that this means it should be on screen in MOMA NY for 77 minutes 25 seconds over the period that the exhibition is running for, assuming that the screens are on for the full 927 hours I have estimated that the gallery will be open for. I won't let it go to my head.

I dropped five pictures off at V3 gallery today which hopefully will be included in the Photocopy Club's "London Calling" exhibition. The opening night is Thursday 10th January [about 7.00 I think]. I've submitted five of my dead pub images printed, A3, on pink fluoro paper, so hopefully they'll be easy to spot. It's the gallery's last hurrah before demolition to make way for a Hard Rock Hotel [or some such nonsense], which is sad as I thought Lower Marsh was managing to resist regeneration.

​I submitted a painting to MOMA this morning for a digital exhibition in The Lewis B. and Dorothy Cullman Education and Research Building of The Museum of Modern Art, New York between January 5th - 22nd, 2018... It's a start I suppose!

​After Barnett Newman
​Acrylic on Canvas

Yes, Artefacts. Why not? Uploaded the best of five years of Instagram files to Blurb yesterday but a 62 page 7" x 7" book is going to cost £25.00 inc VAT in the UK with a small profit [less than a fiver] added for me. I need a cheaper option, preferably UK based or I will have to resort to creating eBooks, which isn't ideal, even if more environmentally friendly, for photo books.

First attempt at something in Illustrator. It's a dormouse for a birthday card, but it does look more like a hamster. I wish I had used Illustrator to do my Digby book. Would have been so much easier. I'm setting myself some more challenges today and starting to look at InDesign as well.

The erratic nature of these blog entries is getting a bit silly so I'm instilling a bit of self discipline. I've decided to get some of the ideas in my notebooks into fruition and therefore have something to post here. Namely my progress.

Over the past year I have mostly been walking everywhere I need to be within London and have notched up 1300 miles so far [see map below].