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Cremains panels delivered
30 Jul 2023

Cremains panels delivered

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Finally this long process is almost at completion. I have three more panels to deliver but most of them are now with members of the family. I am really pleased with how they turned out. The screen print of the … Continued

cast glass, cremains, embodied loss, grief, loss, memorial glass, printed glass, printmaking
Holding the ineffable, screen prints
4 Mar 2022

Holding the ineffable, screen prints

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I have simplified the images from the gilded digital prints I produced, see blog post Collaboration with Dolores Steinman for ARE, and am using them to create a series of screen prints. The first print includes my cupped hands, holding … Continued

clouds, collaboration, holding the ineffable, loss, practice research, printmaking, screenprint, serious play, studiotime
Sight returning
28 Feb 2022

Sight returning

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It is so good to write that the sight in my right eye has almost righted itself, just a little residual cloudiness. I also feel amazing on the steroids, my energy, enthusiasm for life and ability to focus has returned. … Continued

drawing to show, loss, ritual, serious play, sight loss, studio time
Sudden loss of sight
16 Feb 2022

Sudden loss of sight

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Having read the writing below at our monthly Artic Terns collaborative meeting between the Quarantine Conversationalists in the UK and the Corona Diarists in Australia, one of them points out that maybe only an artist would think of drawing what … Continued

drawing, loss, presence of absence, serious play, sight, studio time, writing
Memorial glass panels with cremains
13 Dec 2021

Memorial glass panels with cremains

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These have been a long time waiting to be made, my partner’s sister died 17 years ago and he died 10 years ago but my ongoing collaborative conversations with Annabel Pettigrew-MacPherson and a fantastic workshop titled On Repeat led by … Continued

cremains, glass, grief, loss, making, ritual, screenprint, studio time
Next Empty Fence Series – combined screenprint over giclee print
29 Nov 2021

Next Empty Fence Series – combined screenprint over giclee print

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Screen prints of the remaining two tatters of Chris shirts (the rest I tied to the fence at Black Rock Nature Reserve to be washed by the River Severn back in 2012) over giclee prints from enlarged polaroids taken of … Continued

giclee print, grief, loss, printmaking, ritual, screenprint, serious play, studio time
Tether Too
25 Oct 2021

Tether Too

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I enlarge the polaroids to fit on A3 and print them, playing with shifting the hue on one of the images, the original polaroids have a liminal, eerie quality which I feel is heightened by increasing the scale I took … Continued

grief, loss, making, place, practice research, printmaking, ritual, tatters
Tether
18 Oct 2021

Tether

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It is 10 years this month since Chris died, no time and all time – using this as a prompt along with the ongoing collaborative conversation through letter writing I am having with Annabel Pettigrew- MacPherson I am working on … Continued

giclee print, grief, loss, monoprint, place, printmaking, tether, tying the threads
Impossible vessels
16 Aug 2021

Impossible vessels

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I have been mending and tweaking the impossible feather vessels that have my hands screen-printed on them, thinking about how they hold emptiness, wanting to somehow use the vessels and the image of my cupped hands with mine and Dolores … Continued

evocative objects, hands, holding emptiness, impossible vessels, loss, practice research, ritual, studio time, swans feathers

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    The most joyful, love filled Most Wuthering day (first one for Linz and I and definitely not our last!) Biggest thanks to everyone who helps make this happen. Everyone in red including dogs, children, men, women. I’m taking red dog Ulf next year in a tutu 😍❤️💃🐕 #katebush #mostwutheringheightsdayever #reddresses #joyofcommunity Please come along on Sunday 2-4pm Princess Pavilions Falmouth Thanks to Anna Sadler at No_one_dies_alone_cornwall for inviting me to run a heat transfer printing workshop. Had an inspiring, joyful day yesterday talking at the Post graduate Symposium at Arnolfini Bristol with current PhD students - Jelena Krivosic, Tosin Olufon and Clare Haley and alumni Angie Butler, Katie Davies and Rob Eagle. Honest, authentic sharing of ideas and experiences. Thanks so much Shawn Sobers and Judith Aston for inviting to talk about my Post PhD journey. The memorial commission for Dani Brookes is installed and her colleagues at Abcam can remember her through the images they produced in their collage workshop that I integrated into the design of glass panels installed beside their workstation. What a glorious way to honour a much loved colleague and mentor and I thank them for trusting me with this delicate process. I celebrated successful completion with an espresso martini!  #memorialglass Really enjoying using my glass skills for this memorial commission for a scientist from Abcam who is greatly missed. Glass has been acid etched, painted and silver stained and I’m also using some unique and now sadly no longer available flat streaky glass from English Antique Glass (a desperately sad loss to stained glass production). I always need to view the glass against daylight to check colour/texture balance hence the use of plasticine on plate glass prior to leading up. Great life drawing session today at Falmouth Council Chambers thanks  @calista.wild.art and @lifemodeldp Day 5 last day of Siena screen print summer school I printed a 3 colour print using a small version of Raphael, Tobit, his fish and dog from Chiesa dell’Angelo Raffaele in Venice over a monstrance and swirl positive. Loving how Siena, Dave Fortune @serigraphy42 and my fellow attendees @somersetwreathsandgarlands and @tills.counsell have inspired me and influenced my colour palette. Day 4 of Siena screen print summer school I printed Raphael, Tobit, his fish and dog from Chiesa dell’Angelo Raffaele in Venice over the mono screen prints and the blue photo screen print from yesterday. Loving how Siena and my fellow attendees @somersetwreathsandgarlands and @tills.counsell are influencing my colour palette. Day 3 of screen print summer school managed to print monoprint backgrounds and a blue version of the photo screen even with a raging hangover,😵 dips in the pool helped! Dave Fortune did an interesting swirl of the squeegee on the final pull, that created an underwater feeling blend of colours 🙌

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