I’ve been thinking about making a Robin print for a long time and had a few requests for one. After a visit to the Eden Project in Cornwall I was inspired again to make one and more importantly finally got round to doing it. The first time I visited the Eden Project I thought the…
This post is long overdue! I did this course in July of this year, I posted the photos on Flickr and never got round to writing about it. Here is a description from the UWE Website: “Stratography or Pressure Printing is an innovative and experimental technique that uses a flexible plate attached to the cylinder…
I’ve been making a new print. This one was in my head for a while. It was quite difficult to do, starting with an original drawing and trying to figure out how it will be cut and how I will print it. Here is the rubber stamp ready to be cut. And then finally cut…
Here are some photos of latest book When I Am An Old Lady made for Book Art Object. All the text was done on my Typewriter – not easy – there were plenty of screechy bits! All images are hand stamped. The idea for this book came from things I said I was going to…
Clarendon 18pt This post is a little overdue. I did this course last year, it got lost in my drafts somehow. This was a one week course at UWE Bristol led by Tom Sowden and the Lovely Angie Butler. Thoroughly enjoyable and I was able to make some work with ideas that had been floating…
Ever since I heard the term frozen star (the original name for black holes) in a book called the Physics of Start Trek I have been fascinated by it. I have been working on some frozen star images and this is the final print. I really liked the other 2 images I made but I…
I first heard the words ‘frozen star’ when I read a book called The Physics of Star Trek a few years ago. It was the term first used to describe black holes. I just loved the words and have been trying to find ‘stars’ to freeze since then. I first started freezing things in ice…
Hope is the thing with feathers… Heavenly hurt it gives us, we can find no scar… Narcotics cannot still the tooth that nibbles at the soul… She dealt her pretty words like blades… My life had stood a loaded gun… ———————————————————————————- Finally finished this series of prints. All the lines are from Emily Dickinson poems.…