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I have finished printing my 90 flowers! Some of these I printed onto wet Somerset paper and some onto dry. Where the paper was dry I also splattered water so it made the silkscreen inks bleed and this effect was […]

I have been writing the last chapter of my dissertation and came accross a few quotes from a texton Ana Mendieta which I feel are relevant to my degree project and studio practice. “I am an artist who feels that […]

Inspired by the costumes of Louise Borgeois, Pablo Picasso and the Triadic Ballet by Oskar Schlemmer I start experimenting with the lampshades as costumes. Their shapes and how they adjust to my body remind me of shields and shells… I […]

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Everything is packed and ready to go to my Pop Up Blossom Studio at Derby Quad.Long lists have all been checked and ticked and I’m just hoping I have got everything I will need. The idea behind providing a Pop […]

La comedienne (The comedian), 2014 Coloured pencil Four drawings of the series of photographs created with the lampshades. I like the deadpan of the expressions, the absurdity, the body languague. The movement was restrained with the lampshades, does this want […]

It’s carnival time in my studio.NOTE: Not sure why images are horizontal Mikhail Bakhtin’s four categories of the carnivalistic sense of the world: 1. Familiar and free interaction between people: carnival often brought the unlikely of people together and encouraged […]

“There is no greater sorrowThan to recall a happy timeWhen miserable.” ― Dante Alighieri “Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.” ― Marcel Proust “We are homesick most for the places we have […]

Another couple of months have gone by since my last post. I’d rather be doing it than writing about it; writing about it takes up too much time. However writing about it does help and provides a great record as […]

I’ve started to explore my work in terms of process. After initially using collage to develop the ‘floor plan’ drawings, I tried scratching away at the prints to reveal the pathways created when I walk round my house. These pieces […]

I walked in on a life drawing class today and decided to stay. We did some movement drawings. I concentrated on mark making and my pictures reminded me of cave engravings where one image is superimposed over the other until […]

Almost there!!! Exhibition up, statements done, Studio Works done-price list done-just a few last minute things to do tomorrow. It has been an amazing 6 months-thank you so much ASP.If I hadn’t had a studio to move into I would […]

New Leaf Along with strips of bark, seed heads and numerous photos, I’d returned from Arran last year with a bag of huge Rhododendron magnificum leaves. Letting my hands do the thinking, I’d slice into one, feathering or ‘serrating’ the […]

Week 71: 20th – 26th JanuaryWhen discussing my artist book practice, I’ve been asked to consider why I prefer the context of a museum to display my work, rather than a library. Apart from thinking about the book as an […]