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		<title>Creating Art Gifts: A Budgie Portrait</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2025 04:15:36 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been a while since I posted any news on the art front. I am making art, but it&#8217;s all gifts or commissions at the moment, or wee tutorials to improve techniques. Life has also been pretty busy for us as a family. This means I don&#8217;t get huge amounts of time to get into [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>I Quit Facebook and Instagram, Here&#8217;s Why.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Nov 2024 22:02:54 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The whys: To get more work done. To stop comparing myself to others. The Algorithm&#8217;s To not be run by the algorithms. To summarise paragraphs of ranting: The algorithms are designed to make money from users attention. Making money for shareholders in the short term is their absolute priority and every decision made is setup [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Shift: Urban Art Takeover &#8211; Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 May 2023 04:09:50 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[From February to April this year our local Museum had a “street art” take over. They are heading into a massive refurbishment, it&#8217;s been largely the same since I remember going as a kid. So its well due. There are some pretty fab pieces in their collection that have not had the space to come [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>I&#8217;ve been swallowed by the internet</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2023 03:51:17 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Deciding to &#8216;make a go of it&#8217; when it came to making a selling art has started to bring up some struggles for me. I thought I might share them.. because what else does one blog about?? I decided a few years ago now to take a social media break. It worked really well and [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>On starting up a new art practice</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Sep 2022 02:20:22 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In the last 15 years, the only art I did really consisted of copying the odd painting into my sketchbook or a large easy canvas to decorate our walls. Mainly as some art therapy and “me time” amongst the normal comings and goings of our lives. When I decided to start up a regular art [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>A little background : Just in case you thought it all came out of nowhere&#8230;.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Sep 2022 21:52:15 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[That's what I said to a group of twenty plus strangers, a few weeks ago in the first session of a workshop called "Professional Artistic Development". 

I don't know about any other Artists, but when it comes to being one of my age and stage (early forties) making such a proclamation feels both dirty and "big headed", full of self-interest and entitlement.]]></description>
		
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