News from the Studio

Tea break time and just a short snatch of time to update my news page. So, here is a round up of things going on. Exhibitions my work is taking part in and some things coming up.

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The Design Room. A Printmaking showcase at Artizan Gallery, Torquay, Devon in May and June. I am really delighted to have 4 prints on show. Till 27th June. Purchasing can be online or in person.

A quiet that seems coordinated, digital print on Fine Art Archival paper. 2020

A quiet that seems coordinated, digital print on Fine Art Archival paper. 2020

Proud to receive the Flourish Magazine Award for this digital print, exhibited in the English Riviera Photography showcase, at the Artizan Collective Gallery. This photographic image is part of a group collected at the start of Lockdown, Spring 2020. The light last spring was amazing. I couldn’t use the general studios so converted the small shed into a makeshift space. A time when I was navigating a ‘new normal’. Luckily also productive creatively. These images sparked off some new thinking and ideas.

I am happy to report that I now have a larger purpose built studio In the garden of my new home. There will be more about this space in a future post. It’s been quite an undertaking and adventure !!!.

Also, currently showing;

Postcards from Great Britain - I am taking part In this Shutterhub exhibition taking place at venues across Europe. Postcards from Great Britain is a largescale project where photographers share their visions of British culture through photographic images, creating conversations and exchange.

Pop-up exhibitions are being held in locations across Europe, showcasing thousands of postcard-sized images. 

My photographs were taken when I visited the old abandoned Shredded Wheat factory in Welwyn. Soon to be a new living working and cultural quarter called the Wheat Quarter. I was captivated by the abandoned derelict site and chimneys sitting alongside the emerging new development.

Shredded Wheat Factory i. Digital print, 2020.

Shredded Wheat Factory i. Digital print, 2020.

New work

This new work forms part of a group of ongoing mixed media drawings, some of which I will be exhibiting later In the year. Responding to notions of watching and being watched and research undertaken at Wicken Fen Nature Reserve, these drawings use Solar etching, mono print and stitch on paper. 

Hide no. 7 Solar etching, mono print & mixed media on paper 20 x 19 cm 

Hide no. 7 Solar etching, mono print & mixed media on paper 20 x 19 cm 

Hide No. 3 Solar etching, mono print 7 mixed media on paper 38 x 28 cm 

Hide No. 3 Solar etching, mono print 7 mixed media on paper 38 x 28 cm 

Hide No. 2 Solar etching, mono print & mixed media on paper 38 x 28 cm 

Hide No. 2 Solar etching, mono print & mixed media on paper 38 x 28 cm 

Hide No. 8 Solar etching, mono print & mixed media on paper 38 x 28cm 

Hide No. 8 Solar etching, mono print & mixed media on paper 38 x 28cm 

Work in progress part 1

I seem to be juggling again, which isn't that unusual !! .

I've got a few projects running together at the moment, so studio days are very busy. From time to time I try to get a moment to work on some canvases which have been on the go for a while now.

For the main part of my time I've been experimenting with imagery and processes for the 'Wicken Fen' project. This Is involving research, both with media and historical research. The printing bit has been so much fun as I'm playing with Solar print etching again, responding to photographs collected at the Reserve..and I'm loving the results so far.