Another board game inspired piece I did earlier this year …finally getting round to posting this, having had a bit of a blog hiatus… must do better! Wanderers in the Re-Wilderness A take on a on the board game ‘Wallis’s New Game of Wanderers in the Wilderness’ published in the early 19th century, a hand …
Last year I entered an Ex-Libris (book plate) competition in Lithuania for Trakai Peninsula Castle, which was based on unicorns so I couldn’t resist! Back in 1962 a unicorn artefact thought to be from the 14th Century, was unearthed by archaeologists in the grounds of the caste, and has since been adopted as a symbol …
Some other work I had been working on last year (2020) is a series of prints based on Victorian board games. I had recently come across The Swan of Elegance and other beautifully illustrated games, and the mix of the illustrations and the social messages I found eccentric and unique, and I started forming ideas …
I was delighted to take part in Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair again this year – albeit a somewhat different event this year as with so many things! This year was fully online, and you could browse the exhibition virtually through the online portal – almost like being there in person! One of the advantages was …
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A little project during lock-down I entered was The Trafalgar Way postcard competition. The idea was to create a postcard of a scene along the Trafalgar Way route, which runs from Falmouth in Cornwall to The Admiralty in Whitehall, London (the journey of the naval messenger who brought home the news from The Battle of …
During lockdown I have been working on lots of new things, one of which is this print ‘City Songbirds’, a handcoloured screen print. These are in an edition of 14, each one is screen printed by Dantes Press (in our studio) and then I individually colour each print in with watercolours, which is quite a …
Antennae is the leading journal on nature in contemporary art featuring the most cutting edge and influential art and writing about animals, nature and art. The latest issue, 50: Remaking Nature ‘focuses on the work of contemporary artists whose practice reveals the constructedness of nature as a concept through which to map and untangle important, …
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