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

New Years Eve

I've been meaning to post some images of recent work

 for awhile and already its the end of the year.  

I want to celebrate with pieces that reflect

 the rediscovery of my identity.

 

These images explore current preoccupations 

and loosely refer to memory and childhood

New Work Part 1 - October 2012

The faber art books have provided a format and backdrop to the development of the work. 

I like to incorporate the incidental text and the serrated edge.

Carousel Books

Another device I use for generating images  are making carousel books.  

   

I often start with an A3 photocopy and fold it up and then unfold it and work on it as one piece.

                                         

I call them carousel books because any of the pages can become the cover and this can be changed as the piece develops

                                               

When it is refolded into a carousel book, accidental compositions / conversations arrive; they are added to future work at a range of scales                 

                                       

Occasionally  I don't feel the the refolded carousel book works; then it is cut up and re-assembled into a different arrangement