The studio's filling up

Well, the problem of the studio carpet has been sorted; I managed to buy one for the extortionate cost of £13.00 at the lovely Trago Mills, which I've plonked on top of the original one. It's a hideous shade of dark blue, but at least I don't have to worry about whether I get placticene or plaster on it any more. The shelves are still filling up with stuff, but as long as I don't make too much more I should be okay!

I'm already using it more than I did the one in Falmouth - it's so much easier to spend an hour and a half upstairs than it is to drive to a freezing cold warehouse in Falmouth! I've finally started to practice some mould making and today (yes, I can even work at weekends now!), after a third attempt, I actually managed to mix some plaster to the right consistency and get the rotten stuff to set. Going back to basics can make you feel completely incompetent, but I'm so engrossed the time just flies by. I've managed to make one half of a plaster mould around a wax model of a bird (THE wax model I made in Scotland) and the next job, for this evening, is to make the other half - I must remember to use a release agent between the two halves this time...

I've had quite an arty week this week; I went to Tate St Ives on Thursday and to an artist's video exhibition in Falmouth on Friday night - more about those in another post later on. I'm also looking at curating an exhibition next year and went out looking for a possible venue. On Monday I'm off to another artists' meeting in Redruth...all this activity is great, but I'd better get upstairs and make some stuff too, 'cos isn't that what artists are meant to do?!