Ben Lingard

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  • End of term

    On the train home after the last day of teaching for this year. Phew! I am getting to the point with the exhibition preparation where I am beginning to reflect on how it has gone. I have a pile of paintings that are coming to a finish, and I can start to see how the…

  • Some thoughts

    January (and therefore the exhibition) suddenly feels very close. I have been doing a lot of extra teaching this term. I am grateful for the money as I have tuition fees to pay but am also conscious that it is eating into the time that I had allocated to making the exhibition work. I worked…

  • Something New

    I am already finding the process of writing this journal helpful although I need to get more diligent with actually doing the writing. I am sat on a train looking at my blog and yet again I am shocked that it is more than a week since my last post. I am not always the…

  • Tutorial #1

    29/10/25 Tutorial with Jonathan Things discussed: Next Steps:

  • How did we get here? (part 1)

    I think that I need to go back to go forward with this journal. I am going to write a post (or more likely two or three) reviewing what I have been up to over the last few months. I am conscious that in moments like the present where I have a lot going on,…

  • Time goes quickly

    I can already feel that it’s going to be important for me to try and schedule some time for writing these posts. I was quite surprised to realise that it was already a week since I put up the first! I feel like I have a lot on at the moment. In the summer I…

  • Post #1

    This blog is a reflective journal that I will be writing as part of the MA Fine Art (Digital) that I am undertaking at UAL. I suspect that this sort of writing will, for a number of reasons, be quite challenging for me. I am instinctively quite cautious and the idea of flinging my thoughts…