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Accordion books

Accordion books

Accordion book with expressive calligraphy on white paper using oak twig and homemade iron gall ink. Additional marks made with watercolours. Board covers and supporting pages made from heavyweight brown paper painted with iron gall ink, watercolours and gouache. Measures

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Teachers of the Heart

Teachers of the Heart

At the end of last year I was lucky enough to be accepted for a place on the 2017 Defining Practice course at Newlyn School of Art. Hopefully recording aspects of my practice on this blog will play a useful part in developing

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Bookbinding class

Bookbinding class

I recently had a chance to attend a bookbinding class with Claire Gladstone at Green Hill Arts in Moretonhampstead. Claire turned out to be a very patient and generous tutor and under her guidance we each managed to produce three

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Oak

Oak

OAK At the back of the churchyard an oak has rooted beside a grave; each year the lichened slab is covered with galls. Searching among tussocks of wet grass I find celandines, primroses, violets, last year’s foxgloves springing again from

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Rust prints and ink lettering

Rust prints and ink lettering

Following on from my previous iron gall ink making post, here’s a quick update on what I did next. After removing the linen wrapping I used the rusty metal to make several prints. For the darker one on the left it

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Dawlish Churchyard Yew

Dawlish Churchyard Yew

The Common Yew growing beside the tower of St Gregory’s Church, Dawlish, has recently been added to the online gazetteer maintained by the Ancient Yew Group. The entry is divided into two sections: the first supplies info on the location while the

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Making Iron Gall Ink

Making Iron Gall Ink

Raw material – a mix of crushed oak galls and twigs. Ingredients assembled: selection of rusty iron objects, crushed galls, old linen cloth from charity shop, old saucepans. Combined fabric dyeing and ink making in progress. Oak galls and rusty

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I am a mixed media artist and writer living and working in the South West of England.

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