Reworkings

Text and Image remain significant throughout the work.  I have begun to develop work in series of connected ideas and revisit previous pieces.

Where and Which Way

I want  explore images from the original altered books and also combine them with motifs developed over the last 3 years. 

February 2014

Portrait Postcards 

On a recent trip to Kendal I found some portrait postcards which have fueled another direction. I like the random nature of the found portrait.

February / March 2014

The Knitted Helmets

This is part of a series began last summer and developed mostly in "The Complete Book of Handcrafts" altered book after I purchased a knitting pattern for balaclavas

Summer 2013

March 2014 

Absence 

The found portraits postcards  have provided another direction and in the same way that I look for artifacts with the previous owners markings so here are a sense of the absent figure

Significant Summer Developments 1

Printing Blocks

 This summer a number of unexpected events happened that had a fortuitous effect, advancing the direction of my work.  I was given a lot of old faber and faber art pamphlet/ books which were about to be thrown out. The pages are faded to a light greyish brown and disfigured by previous users with smudges of paint and marks by the librarian.  They have become a mainstay for printing, creating collages and the titles and text also offer an extra dimension to the work.

An opportunity to use old letter printing blocks and printing plates led to a couple of wonderful afternoons  printing onto the pamphlet pages, a variety of papers and colour photocopies. I find it intriguing that work created in this way without specific direction can have such a huge impact and inform the development of the work

These are some of my favourites created in an intuitive manner.  I had begun to tire of the photocopy surface, so I like the way that the printing transforms the image.