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Untitled blog post from "Trojan horse"
I was inspired to make an artists’ book after a Trojan virus invaded my computer. I lost a years’ work and this left me feeling violated and emotional. The front cover of the book shows the innocent looking horse that […]
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Untitled blog post from "The button box"
As a small child I was fascinated with the button box and its contents. I would make pictures or play tiddly winks with the buttons, sort them into colours or sometime just pick out my favourites. As an adult I […]
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Untitled blog post from "Gallese"
I have created an artists’ book as a travel guide and response to the small town of Gallese. I was invited to go to Italy as a guest of my husband, while he attended a conference. As an artist I […]
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Untitled blog post from "Not down in the South of France"
My interest in silkscreen printing and pattern has inspired me to create a range of patterns on fabric. I have started off with a very simple design, but I feel I could create more complex images using colour separation. Here […]
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Untitled blog post from "Not down in the South of France"
Since August I have been struggling to develop an image that gives me the soft shapes of the lichen juxtaposed to the spindle straight tree trunks. After many variations on the computer I felt I had to move into the […]
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Untitled blog post from "Not down in the South of France"
The stronger tree shapes in this print led to conflict within myself because I wanted to show the dominance of the trees as I first saw them. However within minutes of being under the tree canopy I noticed the lattice […]
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Untitled blog post from "Lovely with an onion (artist’s book)"
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 […]
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Untitled blog post from "Not down in the South of France"
I have been staying at the home of our friends who have been in France for a little over a year. Moving from the Isle of Man to the South of France has been an adventure which they have embraced […]
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Untitled blog post from "Mapping the West – book making project"
Bryce Canyon in Southern Utah USA is beyond descriptive words. I wanted to preserve it forever in my memory, but I knew this was impossible. The next best thing was to take photographs to capture the magnificent sight of the […]
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Untitled blog post from "The Floral Dress"
I have chosen the floral dress as my vehicle for a nostalgic journey into my childhood during the 1960s. To remember a time when my dad was a painter and decorator, my mum was the manageress of a fabric shop, […]
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Untitled blog post from "The Floral Dress"
After many unsuccessful attempts at acetone transfer using black and white photocopies, I decided to go back to my usual practice of silk screen printing. I designed a collage in Photoshop using family holiday photographs taken during the 1960s on […]
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Untitled blog post from "The Floral Dress"
My final image has to cover an area of 1m x 2m, so I created 18 dress circles and repeated the pattern. After making the decision to use a commercial printer I was faced with new challenges. To make myself […]