How far?

I've been experimenting with mark making to see how far an image can deteriorate before it becomes illegible.

From sketchbook etching 12 x16cm to screen print 70 x 48cms. 

Wrapping up

Looking back on the blog I can see there have not been many photos of the garden...the light was amazing the other day..slanting through the garden.  Plants are being wrapped up/prepared  for the winter.

At the exhibition

Secret life of pots (one of the sketchbook etchings) now has a life beyond the studio...selected for the Royal West of England Academy (RWA) Autumn Open Exhibition. RWA location and opening times

I like to think of them in their shed though.

Putting them all together

Botanic dream...I've produced this as a digital print but it forces me to think..is this statement art? Probably. Does including words automatically mean a statement/narrative? Yet artists that I admire such as Jenny Holzer and, for different reasons, Bob and Roberta Smith, and artists such as Tracey Emin, all use words that imply narrative and statement. So...busy planning screen prints and lithographs with layers of concealment. I shall curl up and hide behind them and not say a word. Although took part in a workshop this weekend on writing the object. I now have attained enlightenment about the haikus in the garden. Writing the haikus was a performative act in response to the phenomenological event of the garden.

Next step..print on top!

Been having fun overprinting and then adding some hand-printed letter press...just one more to do again...don't know why SEED should be so difficult!

From small to large

Just a small section from large drawing inspired by the sketchbook print. How is it that objects always turn into personalities that have relationships? They are, they be and then they become..

The thing about gardens

is, they change all the time. Thinking I would upload another haiku pic I realised that the garden has taken over, and now, if you are at this spot the plants have grown all around. The Western Herb Garden was amazing last week...the four quarters absolutely bursting with plants at various stages of their life cycles.

Sketched with a very light pencil! There's was so much there.

The haiku looks different from this photo taken in May..

Garden, round, quartered,

from mound to spike, leaf and root

potions, salves and scents.