Didcot Girls' School, Manor Crescent, Didcot, OX11 7AJ 24 February 2016 6.30 - 8.30pm Please join me at the Preview if you live anywhere nearby Didcot Girl's School. When I was invited to exhibit the calligraphic paintings that I did for the poetry book Dance, at Didcot Girls' School, I was also asked to give a workshop. I really like the concept of team-work and felt that it would be lovely to get the ballet girls to pose for alife-drawing workshop and encourage the girls to exhibit their … [Read more...]
My first solo exhibition
...and it is in Wantage Museum, in a delightful little room - not too large and scary. I could not have wished for a nicer looking room. And at the entrance, on the floor, the title. My pebbles have certainly come in useful! I have all 14 Rope of Words illustrations and my new 7 Dance illustrations. And we had a fireplace to use. I spent a long time thinking of how to use it, but then once I thought of using the pebbles to spell out Rope of Words, I remembered the last of the little pebble … [Read more...]
Letting go…then rejoicing!
Have you ever experienced planning a project, visualising it and then being disappointed with the result? This happened to me with my silk cover for Dance, the book that I'm about to have printed. I was going to screenprint the covers on paper or silk. I imagined a richly glossy print and instead it was pale, disappointing and putrid. This was after dyeing the silk, backing it with paper, blogging it, washing screens, and setting them up in the dark room. 2 days work down the drain! So now I … [Read more...]
Calligraphic dancers
I'll continue with the rather provacative post about artists' integrity next Wednesday. In the meantime I have now completed another five dancers for my book. This slim volume of poetry by Christopher Ellott will have seven dancers. Christopher has written seven poems in response to the paintings and today I went off to my printer for quotations. This will be a limited edition of 150 books, some of which will be de-luxe copies with silk covers. I intend screen-printing all the covers and … [Read more...]