My brother made a hilarious White Rabbit in his pantomime performance of ‘Alice in Heartland’ which he performed with the Botley Community Theatre last weekend in Oxford. I designed painted the backdrop with lots of help from the cast and their children!
My work is part of the the Erewash Open Art Exhibition and will be on display at The Beetroot Tree, a gorgeous gallery in Draycott, near Derby (DE72 3PP if you want to put it in your sat nav). There’s a shop and a shop with delicious hot chocolate and cake! The exhibition runs for two weeks from the 30th January.
Later on in the year, I will hopefully have my own exhibition here, and will post more details nearer the time!
The online shop now works for cheque payments – yay! It’s a complete nightmare getting the card payments bit working, and I’m on the verge of throwing my computer out the window… Now I’m starting to think maybe cheques are better than card payments anyway (it’s probably safer not having to give your card details out online)!
I’d be interested to know what people think about the buying online system, and will continue to try and develop a safe and easy to use online shop!
Sorry if you have been trying to buy prints online – I’ve realised the system doesn’t always work. I’ve changed it, though it’s still not working completeley – I’ll keep perservering, but if you would like a print before Christmas let me know by phone or email, and we’ll sort it another way – thanks for your patience!
These pictures are all available as signed, mounted, limited edition (40) prints, and make fantastic christmas presents! Follow the instructions on the buy prints online page, or send me an email. An A4 mounted print is only £15.
It was great fun at the weekend in Longley Four Greens, Sheffield where children helped build a giant caterpillar out of cycle tyres…
Children also used the tyres to print onto fabric, making up caterpillar pictures and stories. These will be sewn together to form tunnels that children can play inside. There will be a waterproof outer structure (an old taupaulin), so the structure should last!
The children enjoyed playing in the caterpillar, and making up different games to play…
This Saturday, I will lead artist for a really exciting Sheffield NOW! event at Four Greens, Sheffield (S5 7NN) It will hopefully (depending on funding) be part of a series of events to create a giant play structure out of recycled stuff!
So far, we have aquired loads and loads of old bicycle tyres, and on Saturday will be building with them to make a giant caterpillar structure. We will also be imagining what it would be like to be a caterpillar for the day, and printing, collaging and writing our stories on strips of fabric (old bedsheets!) that will be sewn together to form part of the caterpillars body.
The event is free and everyone is welcome! Wear scruffy clothes though – you might get paint on them!
Here’s a photo of me practicing building with tyres…
This picture is in memory of my dad who died in October last year following a two year battle with cancer. The writing is a mixture of dad’s own beautiful poetry and notes my two brothers wrote for the eulogy they read at his funeral (they spent a lot of time, and went through a lot of paper to get dad’s tribute just right. I couldn’t let the notes be thrown away!) You’ll also notice blue tack wrappers (dad relied on the stuff to fix any DIY problem – including broken light fittings!) , hedgy the hairbrush (When I was younger I bought it as a present for him despite him having no hair!) and other bits and pieces that remind me of him. The photos I’m working from make me smile every time I look at them!
Here’s the artwork visitors made at the Wirksworth Festival 2009!
A few people said they had been inspired them to get collaging – If you have made any collages, please send me a picture – I’ll add it to the gallery if you would like!
Just wanted to say a big thank you to everyone that came to Wirksworth last weekend. I had a really great time, and will post some pictures soon!