Jane Glynn
Monday, 16 September 2019
16th September, 2019
Here are some pages (in no particular order) from 'Long Time and Short Time' one of a series of booklets I'm making about memory.
Thursday, 28 February 2019
Forest Pencils (If reading in email please click here for complete post with video clips)
A practical outdoor activity for children and their teachers/parents:
Look here for a story to accompany this activity:
The Magic Pencil by Jane Glynn
Here's a fun way to make a pencil or pen holder out of a bit of elder and some leftover ballpoint pens or pencil stubs. Suitable (if adapted appropriately) for all ages. First you need to cut some elder branches - if you are lucky there will be some growing in your school grounds, garden or local park - make sure you get permission from the owner! It looks like this when it's cut. The lovely thing about it for this project is that it has a soft white pith in the middle that is easy to squash and holds a pencil/biro in place nicely! It has a slightly bumpy texture to the bark - ideally you want nice straight sticks a bit longer than an average pencil.
You can put the inside of ballpoint pens straight into the pith - or if the elder branch is chunky enough you can use left over pencil stubs that are too small to write with! It's easy to take the middle outside of the inside of biros - I'm trying to use everything I have collected over the years which seems to include a lot of biros - now I have to find a use for the plastic outsides! (Any suggestions gratefully received!)
It's easy to insert the ballpoint (or pencil end) into the elder - just gently push it in, exerting a little extra pressure to break down the pith as needed.
If you can't get it all the way in don't worry - you can always cut a bit of the ballpoint off and reinsert it.
You can use string or wool to attach leaves/petals/feathers to the stick pencils or, for more precise designs, try using double sided tape. I prefer to tear it rather than use scissors as it's easy to tear and the scissors don't get ruined and sticky!
It's great to use wax rubbings to add more decorations. There's always something to use even in winter - here (February) I'm using freshly picked sage - it smells lovely as you are rubbing it!
If there is not much around - grass can be used to make a lovely green band.
To finish off I like to add a little gold band using very thin thread.
Do hope you and your class/children will enjoy making these and write some wonderful stories with them. Please look here for a story The Magic Pencil to use with this activity.
Copyright Jane Glynn, February 2019
Permission granted to reproduce for personal and educational use only. Commercial copying, hiring, lending is prohibited.
Look here for a story to accompany this activity:
The Magic Pencil by Jane Glynn
Here's a fun way to make a pencil or pen holder out of a bit of elder and some leftover ballpoint pens or pencil stubs. Suitable (if adapted appropriately) for all ages. First you need to cut some elder branches - if you are lucky there will be some growing in your school grounds, garden or local park - make sure you get permission from the owner! It looks like this when it's cut. The lovely thing about it for this project is that it has a soft white pith in the middle that is easy to squash and holds a pencil/biro in place nicely! It has a slightly bumpy texture to the bark - ideally you want nice straight sticks a bit longer than an average pencil.
You can put the inside of ballpoint pens straight into the pith - or if the elder branch is chunky enough you can use left over pencil stubs that are too small to write with! It's easy to take the middle outside of the inside of biros - I'm trying to use everything I have collected over the years which seems to include a lot of biros - now I have to find a use for the plastic outsides! (Any suggestions gratefully received!)
It's easy to insert the ballpoint (or pencil end) into the elder - just gently push it in, exerting a little extra pressure to break down the pith as needed.
If you can't get it all the way in don't worry - you can always cut a bit of the ballpoint off and reinsert it.
You can use string or wool to attach leaves/petals/feathers to the stick pencils or, for more precise designs, try using double sided tape. I prefer to tear it rather than use scissors as it's easy to tear and the scissors don't get ruined and sticky!
It's great to use wax rubbings to add more decorations. There's always something to use even in winter - here (February) I'm using freshly picked sage - it smells lovely as you are rubbing it!
If there is not much around - grass can be used to make a lovely green band.
To finish off I like to add a little gold band using very thin thread.
Do hope you and your class/children will enjoy making these and write some wonderful stories with them. Please look here for a story The Magic Pencil to use with this activity.
Copyright Jane Glynn, February 2019
Permission granted to reproduce for personal and educational use only. Commercial copying, hiring, lending is prohibited.
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 Gujral, curated 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:
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 Gujral, curated 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
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
June: Trident Pottery, 2007
July: Unknown origin and date
August: Stuart Crystal Vase in Cascade Fuchsia Pattern, 1999
September: Unknown origin and date
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.
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.
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.