Why I love the Severn Sea

Thanks for coming....

I hope you enjoyed the show..

End

Sail on by this evening for the last night of A Second On The Severn Sea

WEDNESDAY LAST NIGHT

The show will be up for another three days and on Wednesday evening, I will be at the gallery having a few drinks to celebrate the show... it would be great to see you there, so come along.

Opening Night

The first to dare submersion.

Me and the Genius John Nicholl discussing the depths we'll go to for art.

Pete Maloney and Mike Flowers stare at the deep corners of The Sever Sea.

I have only just recovered from the extremity of opening night enough to post. More to come.

It's all about the nerves now.

I'm deep in now....

Come and see for yourself

It's about to happen.

Totally Submerged

With only a week to go, I am much like my diving friend here... in deep.

Happy outtakes.

During the process of making this current project I have got loads of of luxury offcuts. Lush

Royal Dude

Not boasting or anything, but you know, rewards from royalty......

Puppet Strings

Single minded madness.

Poster Love

Thomas James rocks it hardcore with his killer graphic skills.. Ignore the date bit, that's just for working out graphic stuff.. The show opens on the 5th of September and finishes on the 13th. Rock on.

Initial Screen Shots

Rough Cut

Initial rushes.

Moody Sea and Sky

After a week that threw up one difficulty after another, moments of true fear and despair followed by some fantastic and incredible things, dolphins and seals, the super cool students at Atlantic College and the help of Mich Crebe and the unbelievable expertise of Saul Mendelssohn the filming has been completed with great results. Now that I have the material it's time to compose the final outcome.

Here's what it looked like at St. Donats.

Sculptors and Sailors

http://sculptorsandsailors.tumblr.com/post/28544685138

A brief departure.

Art work by the revered artists; D. Smith and Prof. S Farthing.

Something like this

Sort of what I'm going for.

More Tests

St.Donats Bay

More Testing

Back in the shop

My spiritual home, the workshop, twisting my mind with some not so simple engineering.

Self Potrait

Up from the depths... Severn Boy

First Tests

Here's a still from the first test film (without fish tank rig) taken at St. Donats on the weekend of my mega AC reunion. What you can't see are the 400 billion jelly fish,... I got a couple in my shorts and one in my beard.. Rubbery scoundrels.

Tank Boy

Getting closer to sea testing.

Family Resemblance

It's in our blood.

Rocket Science

Today was spent building this hardcore GoPro camera rig for the filming at Nash, test start on Thursday in the canal.

Spot The Difference

Caitlin Smyth of Chelsea Space has chosen to mock me by taking the graphic from my recent show teaser and adding it to looky likey image of other bearded greats. The beard is my current affectation and is all part of my work as an artist. No one likes it and it's attracting some strange wild life, but it stopped me from smoking and it proves I'm all man. So there...

Where the Wild things are

The lake in Sweden

Filming Location

Things are getting exciting and a little stressful as I'm putting together the work for Septembers show. I have received the cameras and the film tank is ready, some crafty mechanics and I'm away. This is the spot where I'll be shooting the film for the installation. I'm praying for similar weather.