Queens Sq Exhibitioon

Last night was the opening of our exhibition 'Depreciated skill' at the Bath literary and science institute on queens square. This for all of us but Astrid, is our first showing of work post-graduation. Joe Rawlingson took on the role of curator organising the space and gathering the troops, so a big thanks to Joe! It's almost entirely painting and much of the work shown is portraiture and still life with some of my abstract works mixed in there. 


There was a great turn out and the exhibition continues for two, possibly 3 more weeks from the 21st of November, so do the maths and if you think you have time, or you happen to be in Bath go and have a look as it's a really strong exhibition! I've started painting a series of pieces for the next exhibition, It's been good to keep the ball rolling since finishing the BA and to keep it going with some momentum!

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Artists showing:

Sara-Jane Swettenham- http://sarajaneswettenham.wordpress.com/

Anna Robson- www.annarobsongartell.com

Astrid Foreman- www.astridforeman.com 

Jo Rawlingson- http://pureagainstthegrain.blogspot.com/ 

Patrick Houghton

Devon's dreaming

First time down to Anstey's cove and I was really impressed with the quality of the routes. Andy was working cider soak 8a, Sash was on Just revenge and I got straight on empire of the sun, the classic 7b (not +). A couple of whippers later and It went and then had some goes on just revenge with the others. Sash was doing very well on it, with a unique and solid way of doing the crux, hopefully it will go for him on his next go/session. It was like spain had come to the uk for a weekend. Brilliant!

Andy was close on Cider soak with some good red point efforts and doing it in healthy overlaps. The question is will he delay his ferry to font for another go??! ;)

Heres a video of me on Empire of the sun
(A little bit of glare and the wide angle distorting the whole thing, It's all a learning process!)

Taking the 'Wanger' on Empire's crux

Devon's dreaming

Sash doing very well on Just revenge 7c+

Andy Freeman on Cider Soak

A night in Dartmoor

Working Just revenge 7c+

No fear Szere on Cider Soak! 8a

DurianRider

Here is a talk by Harley 'DurianRider' at the Woodstock fruit festival on fitness on fruit. Fantastic knowledge and a clear and strong talk on the subject. Drink more water, eat more carbs! =D

climbing again..

Kalymnos, Greece

At last.. University has finished and I've picked up a whole load of shifts at TCA for the next few months, so I guess that's my summer! Luckly.. cheddar and portland isn't far away which is great for sport climbing, had a really good few weeks down the gorge, and will be sessioning some slightly harder routes this summer in preparation for a month away in innsbruck and kalymnos! Although there are very limited amounts of tufas in cheddar :(




Anyway here are my efforts on Valley of the blind, just after my shift we drove down and it went first go, it was a hard warm up! I'm making a habit of warming up on my projects at the moment.. time to push harder perhaps!

excuse the rubbish quality, canon is taking forever to fix a dead pixel in my 60D so shot on the phone.

..And a couple of photos working the moves

 

                                              Credits to Archie for the photos!

VEG GARDEN

So It's really hot outside today, I sent out a load of messages to see if people were up for cheddar today as I fell of the last move of my project on Tuesday with Robbie! I know it will go first time next time, it's just a case of getting there. As i have no wheels (other than my bicycle, which would take far too long and i have no guarantee of a belayer) I decided to whip up a Vegetable bed!

I looked through lots of youtube vids, articles and so on but I soon realized that the logistics would be costly and again, 8 foot planks on the bike just isn't practical!

Anyway, here are my efforts! 

A veg garden made from:

Tomo and Lucy's Wadrobe 

Ikea Cd Rack

Old steps stored at the top of our garden

And a few screws!!

More photos to come as the bodge job progresses.

So far I will be planting beetroot, red lettuce, green lettuce, perpetual spinach and whatever else can grow at this time of the year!

And there is the result :) The spinach is almost full size now. Love it.

Bristol does fontainebleau sping 2011.

So here it is.. After many days worth of hours of rendering, exporting troubles, uploading troubles, codec troubles and re-editing and almost deleting the thing! I present to you, our Fontainebleau video 2011! It's my first climbing video and I've learned a lot! Psyched to make another one.. not too soon though, I need to leave the seat in front of my computer and go climbing again! Enjoy =D

Watch this space!

I'm currently editing a short film from our bouldering trip to fontainebleau, France. I've had to learn final cut, which at first was a bit mission impossible, and then get the suitable plugins like TWIXTOR for those super slow motion shots.  Watch this space, it should be done later this week after countless hours of editing.