Urban Landscape It’s not often that I choose an urban subject, but I love these stencils of houses and wanted to see what I could do with them. MEDIUM: Canvas Board, stencilled papers, collaged and overprinted on to painted tissue paper. Additional ink lines SIZE: 25 x 30 cms
The Secret Garden One of my favourite books is The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett which inspired me to produce this piece. MEDIUM: Canvas Board, Book pages, music score, printed rice papers, layered and painted. SIZE: 30 x 25 cms
The pages are a mix of papers, different weights and include some thicker papers bought in Japan. The idea was to include images from all my trips to that country and I have just enough pages left for what will be my fifth visit next month.
These six paintings are variations of the same theme. As well as acrylic paint I used stencils with Gesso and collaged additions of paper, scrim and brass cogwheels to give texture and depth.
I wanted to dye some papers and I also wanted to eco print in a turmeric bath, over dyeing with indigo. The end result was this book, using papers, fabrics and various other bits and pieces. Most of the circles were obtained by clamping before dyeing and I also used a hole punch as I constructed the book.