Even Picasso forgets to write in reverse on an etching plate

...even the masters forget

Todays Little Prints

This is what I have been up to today, these are little watercoloured monoprints. I am still looking at landscape but NEED to take a new direction on it. I don't know what it all means yet but this may be the start of new adventure.

All Saints *Sigh*

It's my birthday in a couple of weeks and every year I arrange for all our close friends to go for dinner and drinks out on the town. I always buy myself a new dress, and the joy of having a February birthday is that there are always sales still on, and because it is towards the end of the sale I get the really good bargains.

This year I ordered this All Saints dress. I am an All Saints addict and waiting for the delivery was like a child waiting for christmas. When it arrives it is a parcel of joy. The way it is it packaged is super special.

It arrived in a special All Saints Spitalfields box.

My dress was all wrapped up snug in beautiful All Saints tissue paper (a smaller box would have sufficed)

And the dress is so perfectly tailored to fit. A little black birthday dress indulgence.

I've discovered Angie Lewin

Speypath III

Linocut

Image size (mm):395w x 310h - Edition: 40

I was perusing the interweb this afternoon (instead of doing all the other things I was supposed to be doing) and I stumbled upon Angie Lewin's website. I think her woodcuts are beautifully stunning and I just wish wish wish I had the talent and know how to do this. I feel inspired to go and get my lino out and start carving away...(I do, however, have other things to do!...like go and cook dinner and hang up the washing.)

Dandelions 1

Wood Engraving & Linocut

Image size (mm): 75w x 55w - Edition: 32

Shepherd's Purse

Linocut

Image size (mm): 160w x 160w - Edition: 50

Clifftop IV

Wood engraving

Image size (mm): 100w x 125h - Edition: 40

Reclamation Inspiration

Today I went on an adventure with a friend of mine to this reclamation yard in Bere Regis. It isn't the most conventional day trip for a couple of friends on a drizzly Tuesday morning but it was something different and interesting to do. I have never been to a reclamation yard before and I was pleasantly surprised...There were so many interesting things to ponder over and there were so many things I would love for mine and Phil's home that we don't own yet. We were there for over two hours looking at all the bits and bobs, some big, some small. Everything in there had a past story and with a little love and attention it's life can be restored once again.