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Autumn in the Teign Valley

Autumn in the Teign Valley

During November I rented a cottage for a week on Dartmoor and spent some time taking photos and collecting material for future work. The location was perfect and and the accommodation (see links below) provided everything I needed in the

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Spring in the churchyard

Spring in the churchyard
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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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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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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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