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  • River Reflections: Drawings paintings and sketchbook

    River Reflections: Drawings paintings and sketchbook

    The River Cam where I walk nearly every day has been a constant theme in my work. Sketchbooks Oils and Acrylics Watercolour and inks Some of the collages and photographs of the Railway Bridge were used in a book cover design for Illustration 1 ‘Faces in the Water’ – evoking fears of mental illness and…

  • The Island

    The Island

    Pendinas ‘the Island’ is a part of St Ives I really love. It is magical – a ‘sceptred isle set in a silver sea’ when seen at dawn from the Ayre campsite and a towering gloomy place when walking around it wishing ‘no wo/man is an island’ on a cloudy windy day. Its many faces…

  • ‘Fairies from the Dark’

    ‘Fairies from the Dark’

    The second set of texts were from a small cheap book of Cornish Folk Tales. From the book I selected stories that related to St Ives and places around so that I could better visualise them, but presenting a range of ‘truth’, ‘myth’ and imagination. The Sands at Lelant and Phillack – about the encroachment…

  • ‘Cornwall on a side saddle’

    ‘Cornwall on a side saddle’

    For my first text I selected Celia Feinnes 1685-1703 ‘Through England on a Side Saddle: To Lands End pp?? ‘. About the Text Celia Fiennes (7 June 1662 – 10 April 1741) was born in Wiltshire, the daughter of Nathaniel Fiennes, a politician who had been a a Parliamentarian colonel in the English Civil War and the second son of William Fiennes,…

  • Searching for Zennor Collage

    Searching for Zennor Collage

    Create contradictory or new meanings by juxtaposing existing images and text through collage. This third project further explores different relationships between text and image based on a ‘bricolage’ sketchbook of collaged photographs and mixed media mark-making for which I created meaning through adding selected text from Rebecca Solnitz ‘A Field Guide to Getting Lost’. I…

  • Street corner in Addis

    Street corner in Addis

    TASK This project aimed to short-circuit my existing creative process by suggesting a range of new non-linear prompts to respond to and learn from, each taking 5-10 minutes of creative activity. Aiming to fail and learn through the process rather than trying to create something I knew I could achieve. Useful quotes from Course Text…

  • Garden of Mindfulness: Sketchbook

    Garden of Mindfulness: Sketchbook

    The Garden I have always been interested in wildlife and organic gardening. Until 2018 we had three allotments. But due to travel and illness we were unable to keep it up to the draconian regime imposed by a new allotment committee. The allotment changed from a quiet organic haven shared with bees, butterflies and lizards…

  • Illustration 1/Printmaking 1: St Ives

    St Ives was a place I have worked on before for: Illustration 1: Assignment 5 ‘Seven Days’ drawings and sketehcs Printmaking 1: Monoprints and Linocut. The sea Landmarks Mining Hayle and Lelant 7 days photomontage