Found image. (cropped) Photographer unknown. ‘I Always Wanted To Be … ‘ Work continues behind the scenes as the deadline for completing the short film (‘I Always Wanted To Be …’ ) grows ever closer. I’ve left things in […]
Tuesday 9th of August 2016 The super talented artist Wuon-Gean Ho has invited me to be featured in an article she will write for Printmaking Today. We initially met a year ago, when I was artist in residence at the […]
Over the summer i took part in a 5 days stone carving workshop at Yorkshire Sculpture Park. This was the second part of my A-N Professional Development Bursary support. On reflection of this year it was one of the best things […]
The feelings I had at this moment in time came flooding back as I engaged with the paint. The chance image created during the work on the larger canvas and later by dividing it into several smaller pieces, has been […]
I have been looking at this latest large painting which was influenced by research into Jackson Pollocks work. Initially it seemed to work but there is something wrong. My Reflective Journal is at last making sense to me. Through re-reading […]
I had a meeting with Prudence Maltby and Susan Francis the other two founder members of Cicatrix. Toby Smith, the director of the Salisbury International Arts Festival has been approached about showing Catherine Farish’s Stonehenge series of prints in the 2017 […]
It may have seemed a little quiet on this blog – but there is lots of post residency work in progress. The first 8 minutes of a film is available on Vimeo here. I’m trying to make it about the experience of […]
A few pictures of a local community event that we went to, plus some of paper making processes at Nenba.
As a continuation of some of the ideas posted in my last blog post, I started to develop and work with the video footage I’d generated of me touching my own face and head in an investigative fashion. The original video […]
Then it snowed here , the first time in 50 odd years that it has snowed so early in the winter – on my birthday too, what a treat. The area transformed into a magical landscape…. snow eggs and all! […]
A landscape from a sketch of the Lake, before it snowed!
These are all steps on the way to the final version : 4 blocks I tried using bokashi, using just sumi ink ( black) , rotating the block …. the final version has the Prussian blue bokashi as homage to […]
There are lots of great things to do …. and although the studio hours were 9 til 6 luckily the weekend weather was pretty good so we got out and about to the reconstructed village of Nemba, walked some of […]
Showing the inspiration, drawing, painting, and craving of the block, testing, and final print
Some of my first attempts, the main problem being I had too much water on the block, and the cutting is a bit rough and ready!
These picture show a range of paint applications and demos, extending our knowledge of the special effects such as bokashi, kappazuri, haburashi ….
Then began 4 days of intensive instruction from the excellent Tuula Moilanen, a Finnish printmaker and woman of many other skills too, such as speaking fluent Japanese, bookbinding and much else besides. We leant about designing the print, preparing the […]
A day of finding our way around the locality, preparing for our 4 weeks in the studio …. there are amazing views of Fuji-san from the southern side of the residence, and of the mountains around Lake Kawaguchi from the […]
Leaving calm of the lotus pond behind us, and the warmth (it was now pouring with rain, requiring g us all to buy umbrellas – the weather seems to change here as often as it does in the U.K.) we […]
Having flown from Birmingham to Tokyo via Munich, and having found my way across Tokyo to a meeting point in a hotel in the Ueno area of the city, I was pleased to set up with some of our group. […]
The 2016 Mokuhanga Basic Training Program
Introduction to traditional Japanese water based woodblock printmaking
The title of this piece, “Two Blacks Don’t Make A White”, apart from it’s playful aspect, is purely descriptive. It is not so noticable in this reproduction, but the upper and lower forms are subtly different blacks. The upper shape […]
