8.40 am. En route to the Old College to undertake re-routed second year painting tutorials. I’d honestly never before noticed this sign on the pier’s façade. What coarse rogues some are.

9.00 am. Tutorials commence. The smell of Chinese takeaways pervades the upper studios. And it’s cold, so very cold. Some principles and observations:

• You have to, yourself, construct a bespoke art education around the needs of each painting. For example, this education may require you to search out artists (of quality) who are relevant to the painting, and to set an agenda for exploring new ways of applying paint. (New to you, that is). Push beyond the boundary of what you know you know, and can do.
• Sometimes the subject matter finds you. You just need to be ready when it turns up.
• There may be an answer to the problem that you struggle with in your painting, elsewhere. For example, in the work which you produce for a different practice-based module. So, review everything you create together, and regularly. Think of ways to cross-fertilise the fruit of different modules. Show the work made in one module to the tutor of your other module.
• We paint best what we know best.
• There is no shame in being influenced. (The very best artists have all been influenced). But there is shame in stealing the fruit of another artist’s labour.
• We each have more ideas, more interests, more facility that we can possible develop, meaningfully, in a lifetime. One of the hardest challenges for the artist is deciding what not to do.
• Read your emails on at least a daily basis.

The painted Earth — a ready-made spacescape. Remarkable things lie under our nose:

1.00 pm. Lunch in the Old College Quad, catching up with emails, messages, postings, and news:

2.00 pm. I imagine that this would wash out both the irritant and the eye. A healthy and safety remedy that is, now, a risk to health and safety:

3.30 pm. Group tutorial with my second year painters on the nature and expectations of one-to-one tutorials. It was an encouraging and participatory display of mature observation and balanced, thoughtful opinion on their part:

6.15 pm. Practise session 1. 7.15 pm.  I adjusted and formatted the text and PowerPoint for tomorrow’s Art/Sound lecture, while uploading today’s visual and sonic capture to the appropriate sites and trading messages with one of our former third year students. They’re valiantly trying to find the path to the next station on their professional journey. How hard is that pilgrimage.

9.40 pm. Practise session 2. 10.40 pm. ‘The night watch’. I made preparations for the second part of the MA Vocational Practice module’s session on ‘Delivering a Lecture’.