I love transfer printing on to Evelon and had some images left over from other projects, so made some cards, some of which I further embellished with beads and stitching.
Category: Mixed media 1
Sketchbook workshop
More than a year ago I did a workshop with Cas Holmes at West Dean, on using sketchbooks as a starting point for further work. I was not well at the time and felt I hadn’t produced anything worthwhile, but when I came to look at the work again, I felt there was a lot...
First photographic inspirations
A new year and new work. I’ve recently taken up photography again quite seriously. I took this photo of a rose in the garden on Boxing Day (one of three roses on this bush, the one I didn’t pick is still going strong today). The first work I did from this image: La rose en Chute...
More fun with tissue paper
This is really quite addictive! I’ve been playing around with it for the last week or so, trying out various ideas. This is a fairly large landscape which I have framed with black mount board in a black frame. I stuck crumpled brown tissue paper on to paper, which I then bleached. I applied colour...
Batik on tissue workshop
Oxford Summer School, Batik on Tissue with Jenny O’Leary. Fascinating workshop with really inspiring ideas to be taken further. Jenny is a wonderful teacher, encouraging us throughout to experiment and see where it takes us. These are some of my better experiments: Black tissue paper glued on to cartridge paper, trapping pieces of string and...