The News Of The Foz

Aaaaayyyytoooooobeeeeeee 10/04/07 01:24


Concept for the cover for forthcoming studio album 'Elephant Vanishes' by Satori.

Just a quick update really. The 4th International Miniart Exchange Exhibition in the Waterfront Hall, Belfast has just finished. The exhibition had a warm response and there is talk of future instalments of the Miniart project taking place there so fingers crossed. Thanks go out to all those artists worldwide who made the show happen, in particular Brian Cunning for co-ordinating the Belfast show, Kiki Van Der Heiden for organising the 3rd exhibition in Canada and Clara Pechanksy for starting the whole thing off all those years ago. Thanks also go out to the Waterfront Hall and the guys from Potato Bred who spent hours patiently hanging the work for us.

International Miniart Exhibition In Belfast
The 4th International Miniart Exchange show, in the Waterfront Hall, Belfast. The exhibition featured the work of 100 artists from countries including Canada, Brazil, The Netherlands, Singapore, The USA, Italy and the UK.		   I have constructed a very crude 'virtual tour' of the Miniart exhibition using image-maps. Unfortunately it won't work in recent versions of Microsoft Internet Explorer because they're lame and have decided not to support old-school client-side image maps, however Firefox should handle them with no problems whatsover.

In the past week I have finally finished the painting of Milkbubble Beccy that I started in January so it's now online for all to see. I've recently invested in a brand spanking new digital SLR (the Canon EOS 400D) which means it should be a lot easier to get decent-quality pictures of my work onto the website now, as well as documenting the exhibitions and capturing good enough source images for my work.

In the meantime, work is well underway on the album cover for the long-awaited new release by Swansea-based jazz funksters Satori. Special thanks go to my brother Pete for helping take the source photographs at Cam & Dursley railway station, Glos. Watch this space for new developments. For those of you too impatient to wait for the CD, MP3s of their new songs can be bought online here.