A star child is born

Photo taken by Rhalou Allerhand of The Alien.

The craft has landed here in Norfolk. Tonight I watched Kingdom the TV series round at Emma's House as I don't own a TV, which might sound primitive and crazy, but being an artist takes up all my time and I don't have a 2nd to watch the box. But made a special effort tonight as I was in the Kingdom series starring as an Alien freak. I knitted this costume especially for my part in the show. I broke all the show biz rules, which include never upstage the lead and wear plain boring clothes, usually something dark. Low and behold I didn't end up on the cutting room floor this time and got in a scene with Norfolk's hero Stephen Fry and my hero from Tiswas children's programme and many radio shows Sandi Toksvig.

I was very impressed by the colour and delight of the show this week, making it very entertaining to watch and pleased that they managed to solve the corn circle.

Not all corn circles can be solved as also in the film was Norfolk's UFO expert Mick Hardy and he is a real investigator and does find some circles beyond human ability. But has to cut through hundreds of cirles to find a legitimate one.

Meeting real aliens one would think of as some excitement in life to find out there is more to the planet then us humans and animals but for friends in Norfolk who do see aliens it is a burden to there life and they are constantly pestered by the Aliens. Then once your in the know it is impossible to tell anyone because everyone thinks that your raving mad. So the best outlet for being an alien victim is to write a book.

I was very pleased with my knitted alien as I am not a professional knitter and cannot read knitting patterns. It was just one of those visions in the middle of the night and then going to all the wool shops to find a ball of wool in the right colour, then shear determination and focus hoping for the best.

I have since knitted quite a few commissions. Get in touch if you would like a knitted something.

I will warn you now that I don't charge slave labour prices for knitting and designing. It takes 24 hours to hand Knit an alien.

Starring in Kingdom

Its that time of the year again and the new Kingdom series is on the moving image box. This sunday 14th June 9pm an ITV.

The series starring Stephen Fry is set in Norfolk where I live. The series has great landscape shots of Norfolk and captures its rural countryside and real charactors, that you would not find anywhere else in the world.

Art Money for sale

Art money the great new way to buy things from somewhere to stay or to use part payment for goods. Art money started in Copenhagen in Denmark by Lars Kraemmer an Danish Artist and has won awards for the art money concept.

While banks are still struggling and collapsing this is a great new way of exchange especially for unsupported artists like me that have 0 income.

I spent several months working out a stain proof material and a concept for my artmoney and also have new concepts to do once the first ones sales. The art money is valued at 27 euros, you can then spend it for that value anywhere in the world where you can tell them about the concept or places that already accept the artmoney. On the website there is a list of company's that accept art money already.

I made 40 pieces of artmoney and gave one to the artmoney company as a payment for enrolling.

Now I just have to sit back and wait and see what happens and maybe make more art money to use in the UK. I have a serial number now to make it valid as one art money.

Art money is fantastic, don't hesitate to join in and support this great concept.

SOS Amazon rainforest

The Indigenous people in the Amazon need our help right now, they were peacefully trying to save the forest from destruction of oil and mining etc company's wiping it out. When the police were ordered to wipe out the indigenous people and the police murdered 43 indigenous people in one morning. The megalomaniac leader of Peru does not see the rainforest's as something that is important for the planet as a whole.

Please help in anyway you can. Here is a link to the real news.

Prince Charles is also calling for help to save forests around the world. This can be by creating alternative sustainable businesses that would create jobs. I mean sustainable by something that grows back again. Like willow, bamboo, cornstarch plastic. Rainforest's don't grow back they are replaced with acidic mono culture plants that kill off every living creature and become a noxious weed. Sign a petition on his site.

Another great thing to do is give up eating cows and dairy products, as this is another product used to replace rainforest's. Eating cows and dairy products is linked to cancer and illnesses. Have ago at giving them up for a fortnight and see your own health improve dramatically.

Hospital Arts Project Norfolk and Norwich New Children's Unit

Norfolk and Norwich Hospital Arts Project Children's Unit refurbishment 2009 is now finished.

6 months of design work and tons of other work day and night to get it finished. This is my Eel PSI table that wraps around a pillar in the children's Assessment Unit waiting room. It was designed with 10 Psi's to go on it. The Theme of the whole Unit was beach and Broads and the Eel fits both as it spends time in the sea and wriggles across the land to find some broads to breed in. Eels in Norfolk were used as monetary exchange in the past, but due to pollution etc there is less of them about. The table was designed larger and redesigned so many times I have lost count. The table was built by Arce joinery in Norwich. I gave them a very hard task as Formica inlay is very difficult to cut like this and all the curves are not your usual type of woodwork. My nightmare was it going to fit in one piece around the pillar once finished and thankfully it did. The PSI have individual pieces of metal casing to keep them securely to table with metal cable so no one walks off with them.

The head of the Eel was made lower for the under fives who now play computer games.

The stools all snake around the table and are very soft to sit on. They can also be pulled away to fit a wheelchair in.

The Eel table is a floating design with water weed to hold it up.

Emma Jarvis hospital arts coordinator who puts more then her hours in to organise this job and I recon she is doing the job of 100 or more people. This photo was taken at 4am, yet another night of helping her unpack and move furniture around and putting up paintings and ceiling tiles.

The hospital Arts project is totally fund raised by Emma Jarvis through charitable donations.

My view is why have a hospital that looks so disgusting it makes one feel sick. The hospital would be a grey colour if there was no hospital arts project.

Children love colour, this unit will hopefully make them better and put a smile on the nurses faces everyday.

Here's a different view of the waiting room with my lighthouse and Eel table and the wedgie shaped stools put in a circle with new toys for Mums and children to play together.

Art and play table in the foreground with amazing new red chairs that have 1950's retro look.

The floors were all designed with healing waves that will wash away all ill health. The designer of the floor was a student and I will find her name reall soon and publish it as soon as I do.

The ceiling tiles were all replaced with amazing art work so lying in bed and looking up is now a new experience. Kate Greens art work on these tiles. Thanks to Chris Ball at GGS Graphics for the amazing amount of work that was printed on laminate.

Bubbles on ceilings and walls in one of the rooms.

A totally new invention and never been done before a magnetic photo board for the staff, this one is of a Norfolk style Guest house for the Children's Out-patients staff. From previous employment I learnt that the staff photo boards were a normal picture frame and if staff left and news came in then there was a not nice task of taking the whole frame a part to put photo in and out then putting frame altogether or a yukky pin board with a drawing pin through the head of all the staff.

This great and brilliant photo board can be wiped clean too.

Guess the hotel I based this painting on, when I was photographing the painting outside a neighbour said she stayed in room number 52 on the top right hand corner. Each window I have painted different flower arrangements.


Corridors so many of them look the same not any more with amazing paintings all different. This painting triptych was painted by Hannah Giffard BAFTA winning artist.

The submarine waiting room with porthole paintings by Kate Green and mobiles from the ceiling are all around the unit. These benches were suppose to arrive on Saturday in one piece. They did not arrive in one piece and you can imagine what a nightmare that added to two Lady's trying to finish a job off. Thanks to all the staff who walked by and came and helped put them together.

Starring at people working hard is very off putting, always a good idea to lend a hand on charitable projects that don't have funds for staff.

Swimming with fish is the best thing one can do in life after all we use to be fish before we evolved into land up right animals. Here Kate Green has made a wonderful transparent window painting.

More waiting rooms this one has a door so you don't have to run after run away toddlers. All the buckets are filled with brand new toys to keep the little ones happy.

Hannah Giffard's window and wall work in here.

There are hundreds more rooms that I did not get around to photographing due to blurry eyes at 4am. Squibb Design artists also made works for physiotherapy rooms.

Thanks also to Anand Gurnani from animation Xpress in India for waiting patiently for me to finish this project. I showed him the pictures last night and his comments were beautiful, elegant, cheerful, happy and thought provoking. Here's hoping all the staff, funders and children feel the same way.

I will now be working on a joint collaboration with Anand at animation xpress, finishing off one of the most amazing children's books ever made and hope that it will be made into a game that will be put in my Eel station at the hospital and a book to be read there too.

Lots of thanks to all the support from family and friends and new friends on Face book who also took great interest in this project. I do hope that hospitals around the world start employing artists to give them a big face lift too. I feel Norfolk and Norwich Hospital is very unique for this arts project.

Also please give handsomely to the Chauncy Maples hospital ship which is in much need of restoration on lake Malawi for a basic hospital shell.

The Hospital arts project is on going and also needs constant funds next area is intensive care unit, which will need lots of special art to bring people back to life. This will be very expensive as will be a digital sound project.