New Year 2021 Update

Happy New Year everyone!  Looks like it's going to be hard to plan for the next month or so, but for now I'm still in Oxfordshire, England. I've just finished building an outdoor reading room for the Westbury People's Gallery out of pallets and wood kindly donated from Littlemore's St Mary & St Nicholas Church following their renovations.  The structure is topped with planters to create a 'living roof' of herbs (eventually, it's too cold to plant now)  There are bookcases inside and a plan for speakers for music to provide a relaxing ambience. The gallery will also have an outdoor screen to display video art, so my next project will be creating a moveable weatherproof housing for that. 

As all in England will be aware we are in national lockdown as the new variant of covid has been spreading across the south, so international travel is not currently permitted. Uk residents are also temporarily not permitted to enter Panama for this reason.  I'm still hoping to get back to Central America and California for a short trip before Spring.

Usually, at this time of year I'd be heading to Costa Rica to start getting the sign workshop ready for Envision Festival but that is (sensibly) postponed until next year due the pandemic. What happens over the next few weeks will decide what happens with this year's festival season, so keeping everything crossed and hoping everyone stays safe so we can go ahead with it in 2021!