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What Will I Do With Them?

My friend is giving me bags and bags of these lovely Victorian ceramic floor tiles, I haven’t counted how many but there look to be hundreds. I don’t know what to do with them yet, got all sorts of ideas.

Three Places At Once!

I’m really chuffed that I currently have screenprints in three group exhibitions across South Wales, in Aberdare, Neath and Swansea. “Women & The Valleys” in the Cynon Valley Museum and Gallery runs until March 30th – Aberdare is a great town for a day out. “Miners Imprint” at Queen Street Gallery is open until MarchContinue reading “Three Places At Once!”

12 Years Ago…

Twelve years ago I was lucky to be able to visit Iceland, the country not the food store! I know this is a cliche, but it’s a magical place full of strange light and landscapes.

Tiny Scraps…

I’ve been doing a lot of Gelli Plate printing lately and I’ve ended up with lots of prints, mainly from botanicals – leaves, grasses, flowers etc… They’re nice to look at but don’t really stand up as artworks in their own right. So I’ve been reusing them. Yesterday I posted badges I’ve made with some.Continue reading “Tiny Scraps…”

In The Pink…

What’s going on here then? I’m getting a few things ready for next weekend’s art and craft fair at GS Artists on Swansea’s High Street. It’s on Saturday December 7th, 11 – 5pm and it will be filled with goodies from local artists and makers. I’ll show you what the mystery object is when IContinue reading “In The Pink…”

Muted.

I’ve been having some fun playing around with my little single figures, drawn in ink on my recent residency in Germany. I’ve been pushing them through Adobe Photoshop and experimenting with some very vibrant colour combinations. But this one here seemed to suit a muted effect. I put it into the “Torn Paper” filter andContinue reading “Muted.”

The Green Eyed Monster

I visited the Grafikwerkstadt Dresden Print Workshop yesterday, what an amazing place. I have Printing Press Envy. And Roller (Brayer) Envy. And Paper Envy. And Plans Chest Envy. It has a really interesting history, please check out the link. Grafikwerkstadt Dresden Print Workshop. I’m in Germany on an artist residency with three other Welsh women artists, ChrisContinue reading “The Green Eyed Monster”

Getting Messy …..

I did some teaching at GS Artists in Swansea today, as part of the 9-to-90 Creative Community programme, looking at charcoal and landscape. I used images by three different landscape artists, in black and white, Glenys Cour, David Hockney and Kyffin Williams, to examine the difference in styles. I did this demonstration drawing inspired byContinue reading “Getting Messy …..”

Gilding Again.

Here’s the second piece I made on my training course with the most excellent glass artist Lisa Burkl the other day. Step 1: Paint a design onto the outside of a clean glass bowl with acrylic pens and paints. Leave it to dry. Step 2: Cover the painted area thinly with glue (it’s a specialContinue reading “Gilding Again.”

Inspiration, Inspiration, Inspiration…

I learnt a new technique today, from inspirational glass artist, Lisa Burkl. It’s gilding onto glass and then drawing into it. I’d never realised this method would suit drawing so much. I’ve been doing a lot of artwork recently about the inspirational South Wales Miner’s Wives of 1984-1985, so I continued that topic here. IContinue reading “Inspiration, Inspiration, Inspiration…”