I have managed to start caving some small lino blocks in the last week or so and it is all going well with my shoulder so far which is excellent. Here is a small image of some of the carvings - they are a couple of small designs I was working on back in 2012.... Continue Reading →
I love the Blue Mountains. Like many people growing up in Sydney I used to love taking day trips up to Katoomba, Leura, Wentworth Falls, Lawson, Blackheath ... The views are spectacular and the native bush and wildflowers stunning.This is a very old image of 'The Three Sisters' at Katoomba from a slide that my... Continue Reading →
I have been struggling on with my old speedball linocut tools for many years. Dutifully sharpening them but recently it has been more and more difficult to keep the blades sharp and has made carving clean neat lines very difficult. It is difficult sometimes living in country NSW, to get access to good information and... Continue Reading →
I have been working on some new designs based around those old fashioned postcards from towns popular in the early last century, where there is the overlay of a drawing creating a 'window' with the photography of the place behind it. So the idea is to use a 'picture frame' of black and white 'pattern'... Continue Reading →
Wildflowerings - Art Studio Diary 