Oh my life has become an ugly thing. I’m in the doldrums. The studios not being finished is wearying, my solo show in Westminster has been postponed four months due to refurbishment, our house purchase has become a burden to the point that we don’t even care for the house anymore, and I need a

I’ve been mostly filling skips recently. We’ve done two and my mum’s garden looks no different really, because so much stuff was ferreted away by my Dad. Bricks and tiles were removed (all day) to make way for the electrician who is wiring up our studio. Dad buried them, stacked them etc. (war child). Make do

It turns out I’m facing popular demand. I’m trying to get the new studios finished in time to get the next book out asap. We are getting there, I promise, and today was a key step, and this blog has been posted on our new computer. Capable of driving big inkjets! But today is really important

It used to be a few sticks with some skin on top, but now property is a bit of a nightmare to acquire, especially in our illustrious capital city. Man it drags on for weeks, and at every turn people politely relieve you of your money. We are on a knife’s edge today as regards

mrs ping* signing in, trying to get with the blogarhythm. The Henningham household is a bit up and down these days, what with trying to buy a home to put our studio in, David building our screen printing workshop over at his mum’s, visiting relatives learning English, summer barbeque epidemic, me half haunting the post

It was my mother’s sixtieth birthday yesterday so a few of us went to Hever Castle for a day out. We stumbled across a book open in one of the rooms showing Anne Boleyn’s aunt, Lady Mary Henegham, who it turns out is my ancestor. Apparently we were still loaded and living in Norfolk until

Wow, what a thrilling headline I came up with! This week I’m mainly sorting out the new screen studio and Inkjet equipment. This is the inherited money I spoke of earlier being invested. Today I ordered a new PC, built to my requirements, so that I can print inkjet stuff like we did for the

I have been curated onto a website of graduates by Axis, so you can see some of my sculptures and CV there. They’ve even written an article about my work. I’m getting nervous about my show in Westminster, (or is it about the mortgage papers?) I feel like it is largely down to me if

Today I went to see the librarian at the Tate. They have a great research centre which I plan to use in the future to look at other small press books. They have a collection of over 50,000 books. We discussed how Dinocerata will prove difficult for conservation, but they seemed to want to rise to the

What an amazing few days we’ve had. I’ve been writing my thesis, which is the closest we will ever have to a manifesto in the HFP. It is basically a proposal for the HFP, but in the form of an interview with a deceased printer (Eric Gill) and an essay on the American band the Danielson