A
collection of pieces created using photographs, recycled objects and
personal memory triggers
Time Piece
Mixed
Media Installation
Time, like an ever rolling
stream,
bears all its sons away:
They fly, forgotten as a
dream
dies at the opening day
Isaac Watts
Memory Box
This
box contains the texture of a building:
Each
surface is captured as evidence collected of a time and a place.
Each
print located on a plan.
Stored
in a box made from the buildings floor boards and locked.
Memories of others, stored
in photograph albums, passed through generations, un-named, undated
become generic triggers for events, places and times in our own
family histories
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Doorway
35 x 25 cm
oil on canvas |
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Nothing grows in our garden, only washing
20 x 30 cm
oil on canvas |
Images inspired by the
weaving industry
The interaction between
the landscape and its people created commercial enterprise:
ultimately leaving memories, industrial archaeology and working
industries
Outside the sun shone
and the grass was green
To
work cotton efficiently it was necessary to maintain a high
temperature, above 20°C (68°F) with high humidity (up to 85%),
obtained by keeping all windows tightly shut. Before 1833 there was
little ventilation in the Mill.
www.nationaltrust.org.uk/quarry-bank-mill
The Mill
drawing, textiles,
collagraph,silkscreen
and a series of mixed media pieces combining prints, drawings,
photographs and paper ephemera.
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| Real Welsh Flannel |
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| Fancy Drapery |
Mixed media approx 30 x 30 cm
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The theme of interaction between landscape and man regularly occurs
in my work:
The landscape itself holds a rich mixture of ideas to be
mined; layers of manmade and naturally occurring features, combined
with evidence of human settlement, industrial, social and political
history.
Experimental layered collagraph prints, inspired by
random, small sections of ordnance survey maps have grown to larger,
more involved pieces, which incorporate recycled ordnance survey maps
and pamphlets documenting local geology, combined with original
print.
Some pieces use an intricate collage of field shapes,
cut and assembled together which follow the pattern of lanes and
hedges. Each field shape is cut from a section of collagraph printed
onto a previously printed paper- creating a complex surface of lines,
symbols and colour variations. Other pieces, use rectangles and
triangles joined together, using decorative stitching, in a
traditional Welsh patchwork quilt pattern.
The cartographers interpretation of the landscape as a
two dimensional representation is precise and factual, each element
previously defined by convention, yet seen as a whole these pieces
become aesthetically pleasing in their own right - these 'quilts',
also incorporating additional information are equally visually
seductive .
'Quilt' Pieces
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Pembrokeshire Patchwork
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Moelfre
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40 x 30 cm
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55 x 31 cm
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Mixed media
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3D Collage
The use of recycled
postcards combined with paintings and layering to produce 3d images
in both formal box pieces and in tunnel book formats
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Sheep in the Bathroom
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Kitchen Window
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Quarry Farm
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