Frost drawings

Doodles, exploration, ideas!

 

I struggle to settle on one idea and go from one thought to the other! I love the fluid, free expressive outcomes of my sketch books; maybe these are my art pieces???

Putting down roots!

                                                               BEFORE

                                                                           

                                                                       DURING

 

                                      

                                                                        AFTER 

 

 

 

 

 Roll on summer! It has been just over a year since I moved to my new home. These photos shows the progress I made in my garden last year. The ground is pure clay, digging into the land is as difficult as it gets. I designed a raised bed using the materials already available to me left by the previous owner.

 

 

 

                                                         JANUARY 2015

 

This is how it is looking now! I am always in awe of the seasons and the way nature takes a hold destroying the vegetation dramatically only to resurface as the temperature rises in spring.

 

Winter evening sky

                                               

Accidents happen!

 

Life seems to be taking over the development of my practise, what with work and trying to sell my house time to make, produce and get into the 'zone' is hard to come by at the moment.

I am still developing work using rust pigment and templates of pin pricked drawings of Willowherb. Moving on from mark making on plain white surfaces such as foam board and mount card i am now exploring canvas as a surface. Accidentally spilling some diluted rust pigment and rain water on the canvas has sparked a really interesting process. It takes around 12 hours for the globules to soak into the surface of the canvas; the rain water settles at the top of the globule while the rust pigment falls to the bottom of these perfectly formed mounds. Once soaked into the canvas i continue the repetitive process of drawing minute dots over these splash patterns. Canvas has also introduced the possibilities of a more pliable surface to enable the making of 3D forms.

Cmndr Chris Hadfield

Following Cmndr Hadfield on twitter and his fantastic images of earth from the ISS are so thought provoking. Visualising breathtaking images  of our planet from space in real time is, i have to admit a positive aspect of technology! https://twitter.com/Cmdr_Hadfield/media/grid

8x8 Childhood Explored

'We are Mere Dots' 8x8 Rust Pigment on Foam Board

Piece now available to buy in support of Camille's Appeal http://www.eightbyeight.org/section643328.html