Lobster Pots

I am uncertain as to why I am attracted to particular images but the Lobster Pots is an image I keep returning to, as a favourite series.

It may be related to memories from childhood, of books and half remembered illustrations.  The images themselves have nothing to do with me personally, it is more about capturing that an unidentifiable feeling.

This is a mixed media piece combining a weather map from the Festival of Britain with other ephemera from that time.

            

A risograph print exploring the composition for a subsequent screen print for the waterbomb books.

This collage made from printed surfaces.

One of two collagraph plates made and printed last week

The second of the collagraph plates and I printed more of these.  This piece was double printed and I am pleased with the atmospheric quality it has achieved.

Each one of these set of prints came out completely differently and has strong evocative feel.

An image transfer over  a Risograph print originally for the cormorant images.

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.

Altered Books

Altered Books

I have always worked in altered books using the subject matter/ images to inspire my work. I usually choose books that are related to my work in some way but also from the past, as the language is more formal with forgotten phrases and outdated terminology.  A favourite altered book from 1998 was entitled “A Students Handbook of Housewifery”, which was certainly not connected to a love of housework.

 I found  “Where and Which Way” in a local charity shop about 10 or 12 years ago. It is a primer book for learning to read from the early 1970s; what attracted me was the white text on a black background and the unusual language, which inspired the work. It is this book which has inspired the name of the blog and the work I am making now. Although on  completion I was unsure how to take it further; I found when I returned to it that by making photocopy reproductions I could play with scale, enlarging details and combining images together. 

The text is used both in and out of context, fragmented and combined with new images. It has provided a lifeblood to my work and the use of text has become a constant from many other sources.

Pages from my Altered Books

Where and Which Way

The History of Toys

 

The Complete Book of Handicrafts

 

These collages produced in the altered books provide the starting point for the subsequent work, either as a whole or in fragments. As the work is processed through photocopying, printing and image transfer techniques so the fragments gain new identities

(For some reason the titles are refusing to play ball - not sure why)