Open Studio event - Saturday 27 June

Open Studio - Bradmore, Wolverhampton, West Midlands

You are welcome to my Open Studio event on Saturday 27 June, 10.30-4pm.   I will have a range of original prints (etchings, lino prints, collagraphs, monotypes), paintings and greetings cards for sale.

I am happy to tell you what inspired my work and explain how I made it.   If the weather is fine you may also wish to step out of the studio into the garden to admire some of the plants and flowers that feature in some of my work.

Coffee, juice and homemade cakes will be awaiting you!
Let me know if you plan to come and I will send you directions and make another cake!

Looking up at the sky into the darkness

 Are you in central London in June?

I am very pleased to find that 2 of my etchings have been selected for the 154th Society of Women Artists Annual Exhibition at the Mall Galleries, The Mall, London. http://www.society-women-artists.org.uk/

The exhibition runs from 5-13 June,
10am - 5pm daily (closes 3pm on 13th June). If you haven't been to the Mall Galleries before, they are just by Admiralty Arch, close to Trafalgar Square.
If you can't make it to the exhibition, my etchings will be on show in the Society's on-line Galleries in June.

'Into the darkness... '   Etching with hand colouring

My wheelbarrow series is linked to an idea of gazing up at the night sky in a summer garden, sipping maybe a long cool lemonade or Pimms, contemplating life, the universe...

A friend of mine told me that it was his favourite way of looking up at the sky - he had difficulties bending his neck so much preferred the wheelbarrow to a chair.

Book Arts exhibition celebrating the 800th anniversary of the signing of the Magna Carta

War and Emergency - Volume 50

In my volume of Halsbury Statutes, I have scarred and bloodied the surface of the pages to symbolise the effects of war.  The shredded statutes represent the suspension, or tearing up, of laws.

Changing the Laws of England - an exhibition of altered book art at the Sidney Nolan Trust, Presteigne - opening 15 June

Halsbury Statutes – ‘War and Emergency’, Volume 500

In the case of a declaration of war or a national emergency, laws and ‘due process’ can be suspended in the interests of maintaining the safety of the realm. This could involve what would otherwise be considered infringements of personal liberty, such as imprisonment without charge.

The Magna Carta has become a great symbol of personal liberty and an important landmark for the idea of protecting people from illegal imprisonment and providing access to justice.  However, the proposed transfer of power away from the monarch to the barons in 1215 was to apply only to nobles not to ordinary people! 

In my volume, I have scarred and bloodied the surface of the pages to symbolise the effects of war.  The shredded statutes represent the suspension, or tearing up, of laws.

The exhibition opens on 15th June 2015 at the Rodd, Sidney Nolan Trust, Presteigne.

 

http://www.sidneynolantrust.org/whats-on/gallery/re-imagining-the-laws-of-england

The Nailmakers' Daughters

 The Nailmakers' Daughters

My image ‘Strength’,  from an original collagraph print, has been chosen for the cover of a new book of poetry entitled The Nailmakers' Daughters which is to be published in September 2015 by Offa’s Press   http://www.offaspress.co.uk  The book will be launched during the evening of 8 September at 'City Voices' poetry evening in Wolverhampton at the Lych Gate Tavern.

Re-imagining the laws of England

New exhibition
 
Hold the date for the private view of the new exhibition, ‘Changing the Laws of England’, an exhibition of volumes of altered book art.   It opens on the 800th anniversary of the signing of the Magna Carta - 15 June - at the Sidney Nolan Trust’s Tithe Barn Gallery from 6.30-8.00pm. 

Paintings by the acclaimed Australian painter, Sidney Nolan, will also be on show.

I’m currently waiting for the (fake) blood to dry on my volume of Halsbury Statutes  – ‘War and Emergency’ – but it will be ready and in place in the Trust’s lovely gallery at The Rodd, just outside Presteigne for the opening.
  

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Early weekend wake up for Wolverhampton yesterday

I wondered if anyone would get up yesterday morning as it was a very cold icy start to the day. Thick ice on the car windscreen. I was on the early shift at Bootstrap Artisans (artists and crafters' pop up shop co-op in Wolverhampton town centre) and there were people waiting outside the shop even before it opened!
It was a busy morning and it was good to see so many people wanting to buy original, handmade items rather than high street gifts.
One of my framed lino prints sold in the afternoon. My lino print cards of reindeer and Christmas cat are doing well too.