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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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