Spray paint and print

 I have made some new print works for Artland on 21st June. The images below are examples.

I have been experimenting with incorporating spray paint.  Also I have been reworking some old prints. 

I has been good to be working towards an event. I am sharing the Resurgence Centre space with two other artists. It is a beautiful space. Very different from my converted garage.

Studio update

I have been busy working towards the Artland Art Trail which takes place in June.

Producing some small works and experimenting with spray paints. I also have some random wooden Letters that I hope to incorporate into my prints at some point. 

NEW PRINTS

 It has been a long time since I updated this. There has been a lot going on - the most important perhaps is a new studio roof that is insulated! My old tin roof meant that I was getting a lot of condensation dripping down in cold winter weather and when sunny and warm the studio was a like a furnace.

I have been busy printing a new body of work. Living not far from the sea and being a all year round swimmer I am aware of the huge quantity of plastic flotsam and jetsam in the ocean. This features in my prints more and more. I am also active organising litter picks!

A few samples below! Each print is one of a small series. Night Sea is a solo.

Artland Trail

 Recently I converted my garage for a second time into an exhibition space for our local art trail.

Generally I have been very remiss about posting updates on my work. Slowly I have been exploring different subject matter relating to my local environment and current topics. This time I worked on a body of work connected to Ukraine and sold my small sunflower prints to rase funds for our local refugee hub. I have also been working on the issue of plastic waste to make prints.

Flotsam and Jetsam

 I am working on a series of prints with the titles Flotsam and also Jetsam. As usual each print is an individual print as part of a group.  I also sometimes incorporate hand applied paint to some of the prints, calling them prints as a majority of the paper surface is covered with printed images and marks.

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Emergence - Folkestone

 The Access 10 group organised an Exhibition in Folkestone - the first one since lockdown. So nice to be exhibiting again in East Kent.  Gallery 8 is a small but really lovely space. Good window and lighting.

Textile and silkscreen hanging

Folkestone Old High Street

Artland

 Here in my village they have a biennial open studio weekend which is called Artland.  Not wanting to invite people into my home due to covid I converted my garage into an exhibition space for the weekend. (keeping the door open) I now have an additional useful space in which to assess my work as well as housing my car!

New prints heading to Margate.

 It has been good to get back into making a new print. I have submitted these silkscreen prints to an open exhibition at Turner Contemporary in Margate. Fingers crossed!

Some of these prints were displayed at Birchington-on-Sea train station for three weeks which I was very happy about.

Tree of Life - 20 x 24 cm

Imposter 2 - 84 x 64 cm

Imposter 1 - 84 x 64 cm

Studio update

It took some time to get the silkscreen vacume bed in. Electricity is now installed and everything is up and running. Happy days!

 

Moving Studio - what a performance!

Studio clearance Whitstable!

found this unpublished post and thought that I would post it as a reminder. I am so glad that upheaval is over. Now happy and working in my new studio.

New Studio news

I have been quiet for a while. Since moving from the South East to the South West of England my time has been spent renovating, doing DIY and gardening. The studio is almost completed and is just waiting for the windows. With the arrival of better weather I have started to experiment and to think about creatiing a new body of work. A silkscreen bed should arrive after the Covid 19 Virus lockdown has been lifted ..... exciting and challenging times.

Colour Space

I am half way through this exhibition. I have exhibited prints and a neon light installation using the word Red. There was not room for all the different colour way silk screens so I hope to display them again in a larger venue.
This is an Access ten exhibition and this time I have curated it. Artists Sarah Lancaster, Ruth Franklin and Matthew Swift (my invited artists) helped me with the hang. Thank goodness, as the hanging system is very fiddly; otherwise the pie Factory is a wonderful space to use. If you ever exhibit here be aware of the sunlight comming through the high windows in the front room ...

Colour space 'Red'

Courspace - Individual silk screen prints 

Musical event

Silkscreening the leaflets - logo was done with wooden letters. (letterpress)

Profile

I did two pieces for this DAB show. The main piece was constructed out of two chairs of my grandmother's. One had been left to decompose in the garden for five years. The other was in the state that I inherited. The piece was titled TIME, the profile being abstract and made by thought process.
It started in the window of the gallery and was more situation related as an instalation than site specific. I liked the slope. At the end of the exhibition I set it up centrally in the gallery on the floor as originally planned.
DAB is a experimental group of artist friends who meet weekly to do just that; experiment with ideas developed from drawing. Drawing And Beyond. I have been in the group for three years.

The other piece was titled 390 bus route. It profiled the journey from Victoria to Kings cross London. With some artistic licence on choosing the bus stops.

Horsebridge Open 2019

Rearranged and recycled objects from previous installations shown at the Horsebridge Open Exhibition titled The Space Within. Each object is a plaster cast of an exact object speaking of volume and the ensemble also speaks of space within a perimeter. My title was Washing up.

Slow Stich exhibition

Since April last year I have been experimenting with cloth and stich. I have also been repairing and bringing to life some of my old favourite knitted jumpers and my grandfather's old coat. These are becomming diarys of different epochs of my life as well as becomming new rewearable articles of clothing.
In February there is a group show 'Slow Stich'. This is the piece that I have submitted.

In this piece I made a journey through time; thirty years of life in small house in rural France. The fabrics all came from within this space and some of them reflect specific times and encounters. 

The colours come from JN”s earthenware clay and from a bunch of last year’s lavender grown locally that I left in a vase. As I stitched this piece in situ I relived and reflected on memories. Many secrets are hidden within this ensemble of fabrics and stiches.