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Struggling with, but enjoying, my quest to find emotional residues and fix them to canvas, board and paper. Works are in progress. I will let you know.

And we are on the radio, talking about Unearthing Dartmoor with Steve Brown on Buttons. Mixcloud here. “Avenda and Steve Walsh read a selection of poetry from the Unearthing Dartmoor Exhibition and I play a selection of folk music, including … Continued

The book is here. The exhibition is ready to hang. The audio visuals are installed. We are gearing ourselves up for an extraordinary event. See here for more.

The book is at the printer, the exhibition is curated, we have poetry and images on an audio visual, live poetry readings and bookshop installations are being planned … and we have ourselves a show for summer 2023. Contemporary Markmakers … Continued

So, Unearthing Dartmoor is almost ready for print. Our Contemporary Markmakers and Moor Poets collaboration. A beautiful 120 page coffee table book. So now on to becoming exhibition ready. Plenty to get framed.

Atelier Avenda has moved, yet again …. but only into the garden this time. I want my September studio visitors to feel safer than houses as we inch our way forward into normality. Me too, as a vulnerable one. So … Continued