New Studio

At the end of August I moved back into Rogue Studios after about 12 years gap.  The new studio is on the 4th floor right at the back and looks out over Ancoats.

This gave me enough time to prepare for open studios.  It was lovely to have the opportunity to talk to people about my work. I found as I talked that I understood more about what I was doing and what I want to achieve.  I also felt like I had come home - here were a group of people with similar aesthetics and concerns.

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

Bookwork

How remiss - it has been too long

Recently I seem to have returned to bookwork.

The Complete Book of Handicrafts and 

The Hamblyn Childrens Encyclopaedia

The purchase of a knitting pattern for knitted helmets has also influenced the work