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/

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 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.

20th October 2016

Very much enjoyed the opening of my show at Artistsmeet in Rickmansworth last week.  It was great to show people work from the past five years of my ongoing visual diary.  Also loved running the 'thoughts diary' workshop afterwards as part of the Big Draw festival.  Thanks so much Elaine Johnson and all at Riversmeet for organising everything so smoothly and thanks to everybody who came along and helped make it such a nice occasion.

Great to meet Chairman Andrew Scarf and his wife Alison too.
https://threeriverschair2016andrewscarth.wordpress.com/2016/10/12/the-big-draw-steam-at-artistsmeet-12-october/

Next week I'm looking forward to our next Big Draw event: "DRESS THE GIANT" - a family drop-in event from 12.00 - 2.00 also taking place at Artistsmeet.

12th December 2015

Exhausted but very happy after the Illustrators' Christmas Fair at the House of Illustration. Great stalls and plenty of interested visitors - also people bought things which is pleasing. Bit sad I didn't find a way to have a better look around the rest of the fair - what I did see I loved.

turn the page, artists' book fair, Norwich

Very pleased I'll be at turn the page artist's book fair in Norwich again this year - on Friday 1st and Saturday 2nd May at the Forum.

I'll be showing the twelve pictorial diaries that I made last year and inviting people to create their own  diaries.

Can't wait to see all the other artists and their work - was great last year - very busy and with a great range of artists and books.

I spent this weekend finishing the diaries and I have been playing with them, deciding how best to display them. Each of the books opens out so that all the pages can be seen at the same time - I'd like to find a way of showing them so that people can touch them.  I have the perfect box for transporting them - an Easter egg box - I like the way they fit snugly.
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