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Lovely with an onion (artist's book)
By: Christine Taylor
When I was growing up in Liverpool in the 60’s, my mother had a lot of sayings. A favourite saying of hers was ‘it would be lovely with an onion’. That just meant that it was so gorgeous she could eat it.
Christine Taylor
I am an artist printmaker and I live in Wallasey, Wirral with my husband and son. I am a graduate from Wirral Met College/JMU with a BA(hons) in Fine Art. My work is about identity and memory. I like to use pattern to create images that encapsulate the very essence of a memory. I like the comfort and predictability of pattern while at the same time I delight in the idea of trying to create something that is truly random.
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Christine Taylor, 'Lovely with and onion (artist's book)', Embossed watercolour paper for front cover. Relief prints and digital text on paper..
# 1 [6 December 2009]
When I was growing up in Liverpool in the 60’s, my mother had a lot of sayings. A favourite saying of hers was ‘it would be lovely with an onion’. That just meant that it was so gorgeous she could eat it.
I love the smell of frying onions. It takes me back to my childhood, and the holidays I spent in my grandmother’s caravan in North Wales.
After a trip to the local Welsh butcher my grandmother would cut up and fry a large onion and then fry the lamb chops. To accompany our chops and onion we would have thick slices of fresh crusty bread with butter.
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I too have seen the books and also fine then enchanting.
posted on 2010-04-20 by Collette Rothnie
I love the embossed cover, simple but so effective, just beautiful
posted on 2009-12-09 by Julie Dodd
Having seen these in 'real' life I have to say I love these little books Chris.
posted on 2009-12-07 by Carol Ramsay