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wyldeoakeartistry
- Jul 23
- 8 min
Disrupting realism....
Disruption How do I do this? How far do I go? What do I want to say? To reveal or to conceal? To disrupt or to emphasize? Self or...
wyldeoakeartistry
- Jun 30
- 5 min
The blank page
The blank page' ... otherwise known as 'Procrastination'! I find myself a question, and being unexpectedly philosophical - what does the...
wyldeoakeartistry
- Jan 24
- 8 min
Sometimes life throws surprises.... fungal style!
Happy New Year to one and all - albeit a little belatedly! Diary date - 21st January 2024: fungal book week 6 ...... and how on earth...
wyldeoakeartistry
- Dec 11, 2023
- 6 min
We start again ..... a new book has begun...
Finally, the harvested oyster mushrooms (pleurotus ostreatus) were removed from the back of the fridge where they had been sitting for...
wyldeoakeartistry
- Dec 7, 2023
- 11 min
What does sustainability and ecologically friendly mean to WOA?
This is a blog that has been playing on my mind a little of late particularly due to the rise in sustainability as an important aspect...
wyldeoakeartistry
- Dec 5, 2023
- 13 min
Delayed update to the 'book' ....
Okies so this blog should have been written about a month ago ... and the month before that .... oops! The reason for the delays is...
wyldeoakeartistry
- Sep 25, 2023
- 7 min
Pushing boundaries and taking risks ....
This blog post is in response to the same title posed by an artist, Laura Pollak, in a social media group. At the time of reading I was...
wyldeoakeartistry
- Sep 7, 2023
- 3 min
Book update ..... day 18 ....
Idealistically I should have written this update around day 14 but time seems to have run away with me recently but also the call of...
wyldeoakeartistry
- Aug 27, 2023
- 13 min
Contextualising the book .....
This journal entry is leaning towards a more academic/critical analysis style as this is something I have become used to due to my time...
wyldeoakeartistry
- Aug 24, 2023
- 5 min
"Because we can....."
The most common answer given to a social media question of why do people pick mushrooms to identify them and one that I have find smacks...
wyldeoakeartistry
- Aug 21, 2023
- 5 min
News catch up....
Not exactly the catchy title Wix suggests but a descriptive one nonetheless as this post purely catches up with what I've been up to .......
wyldeoakeartistry
- Aug 20, 2023
- 4 min
Growing a book - from a book!
OK so now I have your interest - what on earth am I on about? ..... quite simply growing a fungal book from a fungal book albeit one...
wyldeoakeartistry
- Aug 8, 2023
- 3 min
Walking with mushrooms
Wow when did this happen? I finished my MA in Fine Art after 2 years of part time on-line study with an amazing and supportive cohort of...
wyldeoakeartistry
- May 5, 2023
- 2 min
5 May 2023 - news update:
I am trying desperately to get into the habit of writing more often so two posts in 5 weeks is at least a big improvement! However,...
wyldeoakeartistry
- Apr 1, 2023
- 5 min
1st April 2023
Wow where did the last 6 months go? ........ I guess the answer is in developing new work through consolidating theoretical and visual...
wyldeoakeartistry
- Nov 4, 2022
- 4 min
An incredibly busy few months
Over the course of 6 months we have been seeking to redevelop and redesign WOA through the development of a new direction within my work:...