Monday 26 November 2018

Imprinted, St Albans Museum and gallery, 24th Nov till 3rd feb

Everything is Kept

Delighted that one of my 'time pieces', Holding Still 2017, is currently inhabiting one of the Keepers Galleries at St Albans Museum and Gallery.  It's part of the Imprinted exhibition with Suman Gujralcurated by UHArts, University of Hertfordshire's arts and cultural programme.

We'll both be talking about our work in the gallery at a meet-the-artists event on 9th December, between 3.00 and 4.00 - all welcome - no need to book.

My piece includes twelve of my paintings, twelve pockets of the now dried flowers seen in the paintings, and the twelve vases that are featured in the paintings - all given to me or purchased from craft stalls or second hand shops throughout my life. The paintings were made one per month on the day that I picked the flowers.  I made the paintings over a few hours, never allowing myself to go back to them once the day was finished.  They are in second hand frames that I repurposed to fit the paintings. The vases in this show were all made by other people and I hope I remember to acknowledge them where I can.  This seems a good place to start:

Here are the credits for the vases:




(From top, left to right)

January: Tintagel Pottery, 1984
February: Lisbeth de la Cour, 2003
March: Lisbeth de la Cour, 2005
April: Denby, 1930
May: Ford and Sons, Derby pattern, Burslam, 1900
June: Trident Pottery, 2007
July: Unknown origin and date
August: Stuart Crystal Vase in Cascade Fuchsia Pattern, 1999
September: Unknown origin and date
October: Kinska, London, 2013
November: Jean Knowles, Norfolk, 2004
December: Wileman bone china c1840 - 1900

The frames also had previous lives and were reclaimed from family and friends' pictures and from second hand shops.  I now have a range of prints, paintings, drawings and embroideries, emptied from their frames - they are kept carefully and I'd like to find a way of showing them one day too. 

You can find out a bit more about this piece here.




Friday 9 November 2018

9th November 2018

Excited about getting into the print room at the Forge in December.  Here are a few of the prints I have made so far - they're related to the time based work I'm making about polygons and colours this year:







Thursday 18 October 2018

18th October 2018

Been busy with various things - all nice - recently.  Things always take longer than I imagine  - telling myself what I have been telling children for years: 'it's all part of the process'.  Anyway I'm engrossed and that's good.

Here's last December's painting of flowers from our garden with the dead flowers lurking around in front of them.







Delighted that there will be a meet-the-artists event at my exhibition at St Albans Museum and Gallery on 9th December - details to follow.

Thursday 11 October 2018

11th October 2018

MK Gallery Family-in-Residence

Been very much enjoying working with the Collins Family during their residency at MK Gallery.  We've been exploring book making, animation and stories, themed around clothes.  This Sunday 14th October will the culmination of their residency and we're inviting people to come along to the Project Space from 2.30 - 4.30 to explore their own creativity.  Participants will be invited to create handmade books, contribute to a giant animation and colour illustrations for a big story.

Full details here:

https://www.mkgallery.org/whats-on/family-in-residence-the-collins-family/



Tuesday 28 August 2018

28th August 2018

Upcoming Exhibition:

Very pleased that I'll be showing some of my visual diary work at the wonderful new St Albans Museum and Gallery in November, alongside the beautiful work of Suman Gujral.  More details to follow - below is a picture clipped from the UH Arts Programme for 18/19.  You can see all of the exciting upcoming UH Arts events here




Wednesday 22 August 2018

Wednesday 22nd August 2018

Art in Clay at Hatfield House

Enjoyed a quick trip to Art in Clay at Hatfield House on Sunday.  Lots of nice things but was in a hurry  - here are three that made me stop for a longer look:

Amberlea McNaught - hand carved stoneware



Sarah Went Ceramics - contemporary domestic porcelain


Chiu-i Wu Ceramics -  handbuilt with coils of stoneware clay




Tuesday 10 July 2018

Saturday 14th July: Create Together, St Albans Museum and Gallery

Create Together, St Albans

Enjoying working on a collaborative project with groups of visitors at St Alban's Museum and Gallery.  Inspired by a wonderful installation by Susie MacMurray we are creating elements for a large scale piece using velvets, silks, sticks, bark and herbs.
Here are some pics of our work in progress:




And here is a detail of some of Susie MacMurray's work at St Albans Museum and Gallery; this is made from silk velvet and wire:





Monday 11 June 2018

Draw Jam Sunday 17th June

Delighted to be part of the Let Us Leap festival in Hertford, inspired the painter Alan Davie: 

Sunday 17th June
Draw Jam by Jane Glynn & Michael Wright

11.00am - 4.00pm | Hertford Castle Lawn
Join us for a day of socialising and art making on the glorious lawn of Hertford Castle for our Draw Jam where anyone can come along to draw and hang out. Our two resident artists, Jane Glynn and Michael Wright will be on hand, loaded with materials from pencils to Chinese brushes, to guide jammers on their journey into spontaneous drawing from the imagination and to facilitate a series of gigantic collaborative drawings to be displayed in Hertford Library.


Sunday 6 May 2018

Coming soon



Been enjoying running bookmaking sessions to explore people's ideas about their local places with UHArts as part of the New Geographies project.
Here are a couple more events - booking details in the links:




Wednesday 9th May: Hatfield Library, adult session, 6.30 - 8.30

https://www.hertfordshire.gov.uk/services/libraries-and-archives/events-and-things-to-do/hatfield/free-bookmaking-workshops-stories-of-local-places.aspx





Thursday 17th May: Art and Design Gallery, College Lane, Hatfield, 2.30 (following sculpture walk at 1.00)

http://www.uharts.co.uk/whats-on/2018-spring-and-summer/uh-sculpture-walk

http://www.uharts.co.uk/whats-on/2018-spring-and-summer/bookmaking-workshops-stories-of-local-places



Hope to see you there!

Monday 19 February 2018

Coming up: 24th Feb MK Gallery

MK Saturday Studio: 24th Feb


Very much looking forward to this family session at MK gallery in Milton Keynes.   We'll be exploring colour mixing and creating works to take home, as well as a group piece.  Hope to see you there.




Thursday 15 February 2018

15th Feb 2018

Lovely session at St Andrew's School in Hitchin last week.  We were exploring winter weather and thinking about winter clothes - very surprisingly it snowed for us.  Here are some pictures taken by the school showing some of the clothes the children designed - we were trying to come up with clothes that were warm enough for winter that also celebrated the beautiful winter colours that we could see outside.



Sunday 11 February 2018

concertina book reminder

Been enjoying working in some schools recently.  This video about making a simple concertina book with a snug cover and spine is for teachers who have attended my CPD sessions on cross curricula bookmaking - it's not designed as a tutorial - more a reminder of what people already know! Hope it's useful.  





Friday 5 January 2018

Friday 5th January 2017

Delighted to say that you can buy my tiny handmade facebooks at The House of Illustration shop near King's Cross.  They are handmade and bound, printed on cotton rag paper with archival inks: £10.00 each.


Tuesday 2 January 2018

Tuesday 2nd January 2018

We have entered 2018.  Here's the last of the monthly flower paintings: December 2017





















Looking forward to this year - hope you are too!