Last year was a bit of a mix up year. I was involved in helping with helping care for my dear 95yr old Godmother over the last few years - she was a career nurse and in those days they weren't allowed to be married, in fact she had been a Matron - second in... Continue Reading →
Sometimes I do some drawings and leave them in my sketchbooks for later reference. Likewise with some linocut designs - for a number of reasons including not being fully happy with a particular design I will set them aside. In the case of two new designs this is what happened. I had worked up both... Continue Reading →
After completing the linocut then the framing decision had to be made. This is always a tricky and very subjective issue. People can get very 'iffy' about what frames are used and what one person likes another doesn't. Framing also seems to go in 'fads' from large ornate timber to gold frames to timber etc.... Continue Reading →
Earlier this year I was asked to complete a small linocut of Tasmanian Christmas Bells. Fortunately I had taken some photos a long time ago of the Blandfordia punicea and have in my garden grown the local NSW Christmas Bells Blandfordia nobilis and Blandfordia grandiflora. I had previously completed a small linocut of the NSW... Continue Reading →
They say sometimes what goes around comes around. Or perhaps it should be called in this instance the sometimes 'obsessive' nature of artists!! After spending ages on the original drawing design - inking it up and then deciding to fiddle around with it to make it just that little bit better - I have taken... Continue Reading →
Wildflowerings - Art Studio Diary 