Concarneau

Private Commission,

Two weeks by the atlantic sea.

pencil on velum layered paper, 300 x 420 mm

Pride of place

Helen Berry from Create did such a wonderful curating job for the Hint of East Coast Promise Exhibition at Woodend Creative Workspace in the Crescent in Scarborough. It was a well received exhibition and a friendly group of people.

'Woman thinking' having pride of place. She sat there, the surrounding so befitting her.

Open Studios 09

Just for those of you who couldn't make it to open studios, here is a glimpse of the main room.

Open Studios 09

My studio will be open as part of North Yorkshire Open Studios 09 on two consecutive weekends:

20/21 June ( sat/sun )

and

26/27/28 June ( fri/sat/sun )

from 10:30 am to 5:30 pm.

For details and directions please click link http://www.nyos.org.uk/Artist.aspx?id=91 to my page on the North Yorkshire Open Studios website

or visit http://www.nyos.org.uk/

some of my work will also be displayed at:

A Hint of East Coast Promise

A Hint of East Coast Promise is an intriguing exhibition of work by professional artists in the early stages of their career. They will be displaying finished art work alongside examples of their work in progress, offering visitors the unique experience of seeing how ideas develop and styles emerge.

From 22 June – 3 July 2009 an exciting exhibition of work by six North Yorkshire artists working in a diverse range of art forms will be on display at Woodend Creative Workspace, The Crescent, Scarborough, Monday – Friday 11am – 5pm.

Admission Free.

Please Note: The exhibition is closed Saturday 27 and Sunday 28 June.

Create Arts Development Ltd, based in Woodend, is staging this exhibition as part of North Yorkshire Open Studios 09. The exhibition will be displayed in the entrance foyer of Woodend Creative Workspace.

Contact 01723 384545 / contact@create.uk.net

Create 09 Exhbition

Daily Colour Project: Sustaining systems




Installation view for the Graduate Show Create 09. The work was commissioned for the Start 4 Art Awared 08. Months on display are:
August: the first month the project was consistently recorded on my return from holiday,
September: With reasonably fair weather
December: With wet weather, celebration days and the end of 2008.
April: Fairer weather, rebirth of nature with spring and faith rebirth with Easter. Also the last month the project was recorded.

There are a total of 9 months recorded (but not displayed here) covering the four seasons from summer to spring.



Colour prints on cotton rag paper, produced from the offcuts of the t-shirt industry,
Embossed with the dates and sewn with thread into patchwork square.
Each square 700mm x 700mm.
Mounted with dressmakers pins.





In this ongoing project, photographed for the Start 4 Art Award 08, drying washing was sorted by colour as daily art interventions. The work explores how small systems underpin our lives with inevitable consequences beyond the domestic. Equally these personal structures are affected in time by external factors such as illness, seasons or more ominously global climate change.

Banker 2008 bird in the air

After applying to participate in the mail art of Acquired Collective http://acquiredcollective.blogspot.com/, I received my postcard through the mail with some instructions and 2 weeks maximum to make my response. This was the result: Banker 2008 Bird in the Air.




Original size: 600mm x 460 mm
Medium: inkjet prints on financial envelopes, thread

The works references the changes which have occurred in the financial world between 1978 and 2008 and our subsequent perception of bankers. The format relates to the postcard photograph and the Amish tradition of patchwork quilts. In opposition to the name of the old village store the pattern used for the work is ‘bird in the air’ alluding to the uncertainty which results from the credit crunch.



Detail of red/front patchwork:



Detail of green/back patchwork: