Today is Remembrance Sunday. In Britain there is a poignant service to remember the war dead, not glorifying war, but remembering the awful cost of war. So much of my work is about remembrance and memorial. The song ‘1916’ by Mötorhead, possibly the best anti-war song ever. So sad, so gentle….. I am hugelyContinue reading “Remember”
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Recycled Sketchbook
I’ve had this handmade leather Steampunk style sketchbook for ages and used up all the paper a while ago. Its simple design meant that I could remove its innards and replace them with new (old) paper. I have loads of bits of paper left over from drawing or printmaking projects, some plain, some covered withContinue reading “Recycled Sketchbook”
What Am I Up To Now? [5]
More of my ‘ideas’ station at my short residency at Galerie Simpson in Swansea’s High Street. I’m planning on taking drawing and print into three dimensions. Via corsetry. There’s more of my art to be seen in my online Gallery in Artfinder, please click on the image below to take a look. Thank you.
What Am I Up To? [4]
Working away at Galerie Simpson on my short residency. One of my ‘ideas’ drawings and my work station. There’s more of my art to be seen in my online Gallery in Artfinder, please click on the image below to take a look. Thank you.
What Am I Up To Now?
I’m doing a short residency at Galerie Simpson in Swansea’s High Street and I’m working on something new, right out of my comfort zone. Here’s the beginning…….. I’m also continuing my “en plein air” journey of discovery with prehistorian Dewi Bowen and filmmaker Melvyn Williams as we travel along the route of the legendary Boar Hunt, YContinue reading “What Am I Up To Now?”
Another Beautiful Boomer
As I scrutinise the faces of my sitters, all Baby Boomers, all born between 1946 and 1964, it’s obvious that beauty shines through from within, it’s not something that sits on the surface of the skin. It’s a shame that cosmetic surgery is so popular because it’s the life that is lived and reflected uponContinue reading “Another Beautiful Boomer”
Creative Learning
I had a great day, working with a group of fellow artists to deliver demonstrations to primary school teachers in a lovely school on the Gower Peninsula. I showed a selection of printmaking techniques suitable for younger children including two kinds of monotype – direct line and reductive, blind embossing and colour printing with collagraphContinue reading “Creative Learning”
Ripped Abstraction
Another drawing en plein air from the summit of one of the ruined cairns of Carmel. It was precarious climbing to the top, the stones are uneven, unbalanced and wobbly and I tottered with my drawing materials in a high wind. We start off at the bottom of a hill in fine sunshine but theContinue reading “Ripped Abstraction”
Stingys!
When I was a kid, we always called Stinging Nettles “Stingys”. I hated them because they always managed to find me and sting me. I also have unhappy memories of my younger years as a biker chick, looking for somewhere to wee in the middle of a field at night at a bike rally andContinue reading “Stingys!”
The Ripped Land
Walking and working with prehistorian Dewi Bowen and filmmaker Melvyn Williams on a series of drawings of Neolithic and Bronze Age stone monuments, we fetched up on a hilltop near Llanfihangel Aberbythych, not far from Carmel in Carmarthenshire where there are the remains of three stone cairns, unfortunately badly mutilated by years of quarrying. Now,Continue reading “The Ripped Land”
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