Framed Collage

The collage actually framed and presented..only to myself though at the moment.

month catch-up

It's a rather busy month at the studio with all my focus going on the envelope collages and researching on how I can get them shown at specific exhibitions and galleries. For the first time in what seems a long long time I have focused on the same work and allowed myself to get sidetracked by something else. This may have a detrimental effect on what I think how my art and craft stall idea is and how it has been shelved at the moment, with no pun intended. I have quite a bit of stock now and with a few collages made and one framed up quite nicely..this idea will be returned to. I need to make some money somewhere and it's getting expensive traveling and paying the studio, at least the core ingredients for my work are quite cheap except for the Uhu which has gone expensive due to my supplier stopping the supply.

So back to the collages, the cutting of the squares are very time consuming and now I'm becoming more relaxed and confident with the scalpel. They have to be a specific dimension and I have experimented with 3in, 1.5in and now 1in. I have done a few of each sizes and now have seemed to have focused on the 1in, they have a certain pattern forming elegance.

I am not trying to create mosaics, pixelated art or mood boards for quilts but I'm trying to show the design elements of the innards of the envelopes and contrasting them with the squares that are surrounding them. On my practise runs they have melded into greay areas and dark areas but now working on a larger canvas, they are more fragmented and becoming groups and hopefully ending up as my painted contrasting squares have ended up.

new collage..studio work

new design for card/postcard

developmental work..lino cut?

Change of Plan-Another Studio

I have found a smaller space that has walls and is more secure..it will be perfect for my needs and I have already spent several days there working away.

New Studio in Manchester

I was made aware of new cheap artist's studios that was available in the middle of Manchester City Centre. The rent for the space is really cheap and I snapped up a space this afternoon. I am now in a unused office blocks directly opposite the Town Hall and for £30- a month, I have a 9ftx9ft square to work in..it needs furnishing and heat but is great. I have also friends from my degree who I share the spaces with and it feels like a fourth year of the degree..albeit more self-centered instead of academically centered.

I have the space now to build my wooden collages and for the large scale envelope collage that I have been talking about..also, I'll need to take in my sewing machine for the bags that I will be making for the craft stalls.

tri-colour (de Stijl)

Package for Pine-Oakio.. The three colours (single colour) will be packaged as a triptych and the three coloured frontal design with be sold singular. The Gold Tooth and Red Heart are to be sold as a diptych. The heart and tooth was deemed too contemporary and was held back..