I have wanted to do a bat image for some time now. I have always loved bats and finally got round to joining the Bat Conservation Trust in 2014. I did in an evening class in Cardiff Print Workshop in September 2015 so decided to make a copper plate etching of a bat. I wanted…
This book was made for the Personal Histories Exhibition. It was not the book I first intended to make – I was going to use the Twinkle Story – however, I just could not make this book work. I wanted it to have a glossy cover but could not get any paper that satisfied all…
Twinkle © D.C. Thomson & Co., Ltd This is one of the 3 or 4 books I am working on. Its based on a piece of art I made for my MA below. It is a very short story about the Twinkle badge I took from my older sister. I want to make a very…
I suppose I have posted in the wrong order. I have shown the completed book before the Work In Progress. I just wanted to a little of my stamping process. All the signatures for the book were done on my typwriter first. Lots of fun – typying 15 books by hand 🙂 I then did…
I am currently working on about 4 books (!) One of them is called Brain Soap. This is the first image I have been working on. I experimented with stamping/embossing the text on to several bars of soap – not easy! And this is the final result. This book explores ideas that have 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…
Tools Just some pictures of my work in progress for Book Art Object II using the Janet Winterson text. as inspiration. The Eyries of Books Extract started me thinking about building nests/safe havens, because the boys had burrowed into the books to make a safe place for themselves. Somehow this seemed like nest building to…
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.…
Just doing some more experiments with freezing stuff in ice. I’ve started off freezing a feather and thought it looked so nice at this stage I would do a few test photos. I will gradually add more water to completely freeze it, but may end up going back to this image. This is for a…