The book Rope of Words has really dominated my creative output this year.I decided to do it (more or less) as an open studio blog project and it has gone through some interesting stages. This is quite a scary way to work because if you blow it as an artist, you are exposed! Megan Kerr (my daughter) wrote this fantasy short story exploring her love of words. In it a woman loses the words she and her lover collected and spends the rest of the story looking for the words and the lover. She vows … [Read more...]
Rope of Words 27 – watercolour study
I am illustrating a book Rope of Words by Megan Kerr for an artists book (edition of 10) and have just begun a watercolour series for an e-book. I'll be running the two projects alongside one another. In this illustration I have taken the imagery from the following passage: ...in that ship she saw a word, bright and smooth as a sheet of lightning: Elohim. No words on earth could express her love; then she would be The Woman Who Stole the Words of Angels. She plaited the skeins of her … [Read more...]