Dale Devereux Copeland
Assemblage artist from Puniho in New Zealand.

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Tuesday & Wednesday, 15th & 16th May, 2012 Days TWENTY-SIX and TWENTY-SEVEN of the 100-day project. Waiting in airports ... finally the last haul, Auckland to New Plymouth. Great to be home. Quick shower and drove to town to teach ... a bit incoherent, didn't go to Taekwon-Do. Home, and SLEEP. And today catching up with the pile of letters. Sunday & Monday, 13th & 14th th May, 2012 Days TWENTY-FOUR and TWENTY-FIVE of the 100-day project. The long haul of travel. Sunday, left the Middlesbrough hotel before 8a.m., trains to Darlington and London Kings Cross. Then underground to Heathrow. Waiting, reading, comparing coffee. Korean airlines, on the way. Monday ... Paul's sleeping pills are wonderful things. A couple of hours to wait at Incheon airport in Seoul, then another long flight to Auckland. Days disappear into slow walks around aiports. Saturday, 12th May, 2012 Day TWENTY-THREE of the 100-day project. A slow day in Middlesbrough. The art gallery, a museum, finding the house where Paul was born. Then a curry and ale in a noisy pub. Just right. Two long flights, with just a few hours in Korea as a stopover. So probably no postings until Tuesday or Wednesday. Friday, 11th May, 2012 Day TWENTY-TWO of the 100-day project. Today we leave this idyllic cottage on the moors, return the rental car, and move into a hotel in Middlesbrough for two nights, ready to catch the train to London on Sunday morning. We're ready for home. Hotel found, car returned, no more obligations. Walking around in gentle rain. Ale in a pub, had a pork pie & salad in hotel room. Life is good. Thursday, 10th May, 2012 Days TWENTY & TWENTY-ONE of the 100-day project. I'm wiped out with a cold. Debilitating. Wednesday we drove to York and walked all through the walled city, then around the walls. Today, when I managed to crawl out of bed, with Paul's uncle and aunt to Great Ayton, exploring the old churchyard, and lunch in a pub. Nice, but I'm smashed. Tuesday, 8th May, 2012 Day NINETEEN of the 100-day project. NOW we can navigate ... instructions from the iPad, following road numbers. Instead of "turn left where Potty's pig farm used to be". To the east coast, explored 3 towns. Saltburn with its incredibly steep funicular, then walking miles along the sands to Whitby which has become like an amusement arcade, and the delightful Staithes built in an impossibly steep little cove. A good day. Although I've caught a rotten cold. Monday, 7th May, 2012 Day EIGHTEEN of the 100-day project. Driving over the moors, enjoying getting lost. Tracks through farms are public roads .... lovely country. Found the Lion Inn on Blakey Ridge ... highest pub in Britain, on the cold bleak moors. A lovely refuge, with a huge steak and ale pie. Then a different way back, through Hutton-Le-Hole, and exploring the ruins of Helmsley Castle. Sunday, 6th May, 2012 Day SEVENTEEN of the 100-day project. Explored (and got lost again) in Great Ayton. Then a family day. With Paul's cousin and family we walked on the beach in Redcar, had their famous Lemon Top icecreams, caught up. (That's Thomas finding the delights of a whole roll of toilet paper) Not many pics for the journal until I can print photos. Saturday, 5th May, 2012 Day SIXTEEN of the 100-day project. A lovely day. Explored Great Ayton, walked around Cleveland Way, climbed Roseberry Topping, had a picnic on top. Sometimes fine, and sometimes the finest lightest hail. Is this what happens when drizzle freezes? That's our Victorian terrace cottage marked with an arrow. Aren't we lucky? And another long walk after dinner .. exploring Great Ayton and back. Friday, 4th May, 2012 Day FIFTEEN of the 100-day project. Today we catch the train up to Yorkshire. We'll be staying in a cottage on the edge of the moors, by Great Ayton. Getting a rental car and exploring Paul's old haunts. Exciting, and we're looking forward to the contrast with London's crowded rush. Internet access may be hard to find, so I'll keep the journal going, but may not be able to put pages online for a while. Well! Would you believe it. After a day of getting totally lost, in Middlesbrough, Redcar, Great Ayton and all places in between, we finally found our haven. And it's wonderful! Paul's cousin is letting us use her cottage on the moors. Victorian, 3-storey, an absolute delight. AND with Broadband!!! Life is good. Thursday, 3rd May, 2012 Day FOURTEEN of the 100-day project. All day in the National Gallery. So many delights. Voting day for London's mayor. Pamphlets thrust at us from all sides. Wednesday, 2nd May, 2012 Day THIRTEEN of the 100-day project. The British Museum is a wonder! So much to absorb, such treasures. AND we tracked down another treasure ... an art supply shop which alone could justify emigrating to live in London. Paul was in heaven. Such delights. Here he is, celebrating with a pint of Old Peculiar. We've booked our tickets to go to Yorkshire on Friday. Might not have Internet access as frequently up there. Tuesday, 1st May, 2012 Day TWELVE of the 100-day project. Paul went back to the Lucien Freud exhibition, I explored. Turner and Rembrandt in National Gallery, then walking. Picadilly, Bond street. Such richness. This is the loo in Sotheby's. Monday, 30th April, 2012 Day ELEVEN of the 100-day project. Train to London Bridge, walking. Embankment, The Globe, hours in Tate Modern ... some exciting things. Beer and platter at the Anchor ... the slowest service ever. People are kind, helpful at giving instructions to lost wanderers. Sunday, 29th April, 2012 Day TEN of the 100-day project. A cold start, walking, finding our way. (Asked nice man for directions, he was the Deputy Mayor of London! Elections next Thursday.) Tate Britain. Picasso exhibition. Most of their new acquisitions disappoint. Found another good pub. Saturday, 28th April, 2012 Day NINE of the 100-day project. The Victoria and Albert Museum and walking in cold drizzle. Old-fashioned British pubs are great. Friday, 27th April, 2012 Day EIGHT. Lovely day. Mostly in the Science Museum - super! Then the musical Matilda. We're getting good at the public transport thing .. 2 trains, 3 buses, 2 tubes today. Lunch of good sandwiches under umbrella outside museum. Thursday, 26th April, 2012 Day SEVEN. This is what we came for - the Lucien Freud exhibition. Magnificent. To city by train, raining off & on (but not nearly as bad as the headlines would have it!) Anzac Day. Westminster Cathedral, walking. Ghastly fish & chips, & Portrait Gallery. Four hours in exhibition. Something of a pilgrimage for Paul. Beer in a good old English pub, back on train. Wednesday, 25th April, 2012 Day SIX. Tuesday: London! Met by our generous host (plus chauffeur). To flat in Gipsy Hill. Warm and welcoming. Great to catch up on sleep. Wednesday, rain on spring blossom. Out exploring. Groceries. Homely stuff. Tuesday, 24th April, 2012 Days FOUR and FIVE. The long long days of travel. 12 hours from Auckland (having to get up before 5am) to Seoul. Free overnight stay in the Hyatt. Korean Airlines is very good, but such a long time to sit still. AND I finished all my books! Very grand hotel, super breakfast. Out walking in bare ground, just to get the feel of the earth, the place, the misty air. Cherry blossoms and wild little violets. And now another 12 hours to London. (Must get more books) Sunday, 22nd April, 2012 DAY THREE. I keep realising why I hate leaving this little patch of Paradise. But our house-sitter/dog-sitter is moving in and we're off to London. With the 100-day book. Saturday, 21st April, 2012 DAY TWO. Paul was at a drumming workshop so I walked Fergus. Down Paora Road and along the edge of the sea. This is a beautiful part of the world. Friday, 20th April, 2012 The 100-day project, DAY ONE. The first of the daily collaged journal entries. This one about sending away the very last of the collage exchange packs. And now to make the house ready for the dog-sitter/house-sitter (at present it looks like a Post Office sorting station!) Thursday, 19th April, 2012 The last of the collage packages is out waiting for the postie. I'll miss this while we're away ... regular coffee at Petit Paris with artist friends. And tomorrow the 100-day project starts. Friday, 13th April, 2012 Yesterday we (the 6PLY group of artists) hung our exhibition at Waiau Country Estate - it looks good. And I posted the first lot of collage exchange packages. To artists whose work had sold. The beginning of the end. (Except you can guess what came in today's mail ... the first package for NEXT year!) Sunday, 8th April, 2012 Progress. The collage exhibition is hanging in the Percy Thomson gallery in Stratford. The sorting is all but done. Toby's bed is now covered with packs of exchanged collages in recycled envelopes instead of packs from each artist. Just have to add the ones from the exhibition in Stratford. And here's an image of the invitation postcard. And the book for the 100 day project is ready for the start on April 20th. A title and collages for the who, what, where stuff. Thursday, 29th March, 2012 It's been a hectic couple of months. In my studio a lot, making assemblages for an exhibition The End is Near in Utica, NY, USA. And for The Art of Assemblage at Taupo Museum, New Zealand. Collages coming in for the 14th International Collage Exhibition/Exchange in April. So I'm madly sorting, making exchanges which are as close to fair as is possible. The picture on the left shows the process of collage sorting. Toby's bed can hold 49 packs of collages. Working on a project I've been thinking about for years ... attempting to depict 4D graphs from complex numbers by a set of 3D curves. Having ENORMOUS fun at it. The MAPLE software is lovely ... instead of having to try and imagine the 3D curves it will graph them and you can rotate them on the screen, get a real feel for their structure. Nice. Pic on right is part of the 4D sine curve. And Paul and I are going to go to London to see the Lucien Freud exhibition! After years of him not wanting to leave his studio, or his dog, and fighting depression, he said he'd like to see this exhibition by his favourite painter. So we've got the house-sitter & the dog-sitter, all organised. Hence the rush with the collages, hoping to get it all finished and the packages sent away by 22nd April when we leave. Phew! And just to add to it all, I've decided to be part of the 100-day project. I've made a book, planning to keep a journal with a collage of found ephemera for 100 days from 20th April. That's the book in the middle. Bound with plenty of room for 100 collaged pages. Thursday, 5th December, 2011 An odd couple of images. I learned to make buckskin (workshop run by Aaron Tasker) and turned a dead goat into a lovely soft hide of buckskin. Made this shoulder bag out of it, and absolutely LOVE it! And the other image? Life is good. A few of us met for coffee on New Plymouth's coastal walkway and it was such a lovely day we went up the river a bit for a swim in this water hole. Julie Cannon (on the left) joined me. It was cool, in every sense. Just perfect.

Read the earliest page in this occasional blog.
The 2008 page, the 2009 page, the 2010 page, or the 2011 page

The Pizza Oven ... see the step-by-step method here.

email Dale at dale @ tart.co.nz (remove spaces)

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