Sam Shendi - a new friend in town

How exciting - sculptor and artist Sam Shendi (www.samshendi.co.uk) is going to show some of his amazing new works at our Anthony's open studio event on Sunday. 
This means that the upstairs gallery has to be finished by Sunday, so theres people everywhere painting, electricians up ladders, nel on her hands and knees scrubbing the stairs and a general sense of madness in the air.


I'm spattered all over with paint, and my tartan rug is at risk of being used as a floor cloth it not guarded well. 


I wonder if I could get some of the rather fearsome tribal dancers to guard it for me while I nip out? They performed at last nights opening event for Haworth Festival and scared the bejeebers out of me to start with http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=10151878404610285.


Anyway, here's some of Sams stuff - you can come and see the new ones yourself on Sunday 11-4 or next Sunday 11-4 too. 
You cant miss it - its the only mill left on shuttle fold (BD22 8RX) with lots of people scurrying about madly with paint brushes....

A great big beast is coming to stay....

Anthony is SO excited - he's finally got himself a CNC routing machine! - does it mean anything to you? no, me neither, except that its going in the corner of the workshop where MY tartan blanket has always been. This is one unimpressed whippet. He tried to soften me up with talk of more time for walks and ear-rubs because the CNC beast will cut everything out for him instead of him doing it all by hand - and apparently it sucks up all the dust too so I won't need a bath so often. Hmmm, I'm reserving judgement until it arrives and actually does something useful.


Mind you, the one down at Fablab Airedale did a grand job of turning out the new Cable stuff - did I show you the photos?

So, thats that. The CNC cometh. He'll be wanting to get it up and running to show off at Haworth Art Festival - I'll tell you more about that next time.


Right, off to get some of this dust out of my ears and see what that cat is up to....

bob comes to stay

We're working from home today, so I am stretched out in the winter sunshine of the sunroom watching Anthony drawing out of the corner of my eye.  I say drawing, its more like playing with the ipad, with a pencil to hand in case Nel comes in.... I've never known a designer so easily distracted.


If its not pinterest its fancy, if its not a new tweet from one of the people he met at Tent, its looking up CNC suppliers. Or just making another cup of tea. Or fixing the new stairs into the sunroom. Or pondering. He does a lot of that, does our Anthony. 


What he's supposed to be doing is the drawings for Sidney the shelving unit to go into Daniels flat. (http://www.anthonyhartley.co.uk/#!portfolio/vstc4=sidney) But Bob has come to stay.


Bob crept into his head while I wasn't looking - I was probably standing guard against the evil feline princess madam Alice who has had her eye on my tartan blanket for a while now...


Bob appears to be a close relative of Sidney. But Bob is more likely to turn up in a house like yours, because you will be able to design and fit him yourself. He'll still go into and out of corners, up and down walls and wherever else he wants to poke his nose. And he'll be unvarnished plywood, with a really cool coloured trim which you can choose yourself. 


So, Bob has come to stay and taken up residence inside Anthony's head,which is why not much else is getting done at the moment. 


Still, its a glorious day, and he's promised me a trip to the Yorkshire Sculpture Park this afternoon to see the Jaume Plensa works all  lit up at dusk. What more could a whippet ask for (except sole and exclusive and undisputed rights to his own tartan blanket at all times, forever....)