I was at Waun Wen Community Centre again today, carrying on with the screenprints based on manhole covers (from photos by Melvyn Williams), don’t they look a bit like celestial bodies? I was helped by some local residents who dropped by and decided to try out some screenprinting. In fact, they printed them all! IContinue reading “First Timer Squeegee Technique!”
Category Archives: out and about
Colour Overlap.
A quiet but productive afternoon in Waun Wen community centre today, continuing with my screenprint series based on images of local manhole covers from original photographs by Melvyn Williams. I mixed Daler Rowney System 3 acrylic paint, Process Magenta, into screenprint medium and overprinted the Process Blue images I did a few days ago. WhereContinue reading “Colour Overlap.”
Screwing Down The Hinge Clamps.
Getting Prepared I’m working on a community arts project in the Waun Wen area of the city for the next few weeks and I’m going to be doing some screenprinting demonstrations. I bought some new kits for the project with screens, squeegees and screen hinge clamps so they can be used on portable bases. IContinue reading “Screwing Down The Hinge Clamps.”
Old Lace And Rice
Here’s another porcelain cup being made yesterday at Esther Ley’s pottery session in Waun Wen and Brynmelyn Community Centre. This participant has pressed antique lace into the top edge of the teacup and then pressed grains of rice into the rest. These will burn out in the kiln when the cup is fired and theContinue reading “Old Lace And Rice”
Slip, Stamps And Lemon Drizzle
Today I was at the third of the six planned pottery sessions at Waun Wen Community Centre, run by Swansea ceramicist Esther Ley. We had tea and lemon drizzle cake and porcelain and moulds and stamps and slip and people made some quite spectacular teacups. This participant has decorated their cup with rice, liquid slipContinue reading “Slip, Stamps And Lemon Drizzle”
Chilling With Ceramics
Aaaah what a lovely evening yesterday, with a small group of people and local ceramicist Esther Ley at Waun Wen and Brynmelyn Community Centre. Esther and I are running arts sessions for the next few weeks for Swansea University (see below). Esther has devised this cracking one-off session for people to make their own porcelainContinue reading “Chilling With Ceramics”
Teacups And Spoons
Busy Busy Busy February is going to be a busy month for the final few weeks of my arts residency in the Waun Wen area of the city. One of the things that’s happening is a series of free ceramics sessions by the talented Swansea potter Esther Ley to make a porcelain teacup and spoonContinue reading “Teacups And Spoons”
Plants And Blueprints
Local Plants Here are some of the cyanotypes (sunprints) that I’ve been doing with local residents in Waun Wen park recently. I’ve been using plants found locally – some sedum spectabile seed heads, crocosmia seeds and bay laurel. I used commercially coated cyanotype paper and exposed outside for 8 minutes (it’s winter, the light isContinue reading “Plants And Blueprints”
Coming Out Of Covid: Ceramics In The Community Centre.
People and Porcelain Spent a lovely afternoon at the community centre in Waun Wen today, working alongside local ceramicist Esther Ley who was running a short workshop, making porcelain cups. It was good to be able to have a small group of people together, within Covid19 restrictions of course. I had to have a quickContinue reading “Coming Out Of Covid: Ceramics In The Community Centre.”
Rubbings In The Cold
I was out and about in Waun Wen in Swansea today, with two students from Swansea University who are working with me on the arts project. It’s been a grey and bitterly cold day, but we spent 2 hours walking the streets, making graphite rubbings of the different textures of the area – street metalContinue reading “Rubbings In The Cold”
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