Poster for my show!

My work is finished with just over a week to go before hanging! I collect the mounts from my framer tomorrow and put work, mount and frame together Thursday...phew! No time for a break though because once that's complete I must begin in earnest to make work for the show in September at Sam Scorer in Lincoln that I'm sharing with fellow artist Sylvia Soulsby...eek...it doesn't sound that long away when I say it!!...so...guess it'll be full steam ahead again!! 

Last piece for the show

'The Three Faces of the Moon' 

93cm x 78cm

I've been silent recently I know and I do apologise for that but I've had my nose stuck well and truly to the grind stone. The above piece is halfway complete and is the last for my 'Roman' show. I'm calling the show 'Man, Myth and Mosaics' and it will open on May 1st at Caistor Heritage Centre Lincolnshire.  There will be a 'Meet the Artist' event on Saturday May 3rd at 11.00am which of course everyone is warmly invited to. I'll post details again nearer the time.

Fragment of a mosaic (drawing)

charcoal on scored and cut paper

30cm x 30cm

Although you can't see it in the photo, this drawing is in relief and stands about 1 cm proud of the surface. I've made it to go into a deep box frame. It was problematic attaching it to the surface and at this moment in time it's clamped together and weighted down to keep it flat whilst the glue dries! Ok...deadline approaches, I've no time to lose so it's head down and onto the next one!

'Bodylines'

'In Rehearsal 3'

50cm x 40cm

charcoal on scored paper

This is one of the pieces I have hanging in a joint exhibition of work called 'Bodylines' currently showing at 'Gallery at St Martins' 37b Hungate, St Martin's Square (behind the Cheese Society), Lincoln. The exhibition is on for this week only and finishes on Sunday.  If you like figurative work you'll love this show!  So please come along and take a look if you are in the area! There are drinks and nibbles on offer this Saturday afternoon 8th March 1pm - 4pm.

Large mosaic piece finished!

30" x 21"

Scored and cut paper

Yay...the large mosaic piece that I've been working on is finished at last!!! It's been a fascinating process watching the drawing taking on a life of its own with patterns and rhythms emerging from the surface. I've been using varying sizes of tesserae throughout and it's this that has generated the patterns and rhythms and on this larger scale they become more noticeable. I feel the drawings are taking on added strength through fragmenting and rebuilding them. I've planned one more large piece and two more small and with my deadline approaching there's no time to lose! I'll keep you posted on my progress but in the meantime I'll be posting some more tablet drawings, so look out for those.

Lamp, Cat and Slippers

 Lamp 

                                              

These are some more drawings from my tablet. I've been trying out some of the different tools and experimenting with the colour wheels.  It's a whole new world!

Cat

Slippers

First drawings on my tablet

The large mosaic piece that I started about a week ago is still work in progress! In the meantime I've been exploring my new drawing app on my Nexus tablet. I've been using the tablet as a sketchbook and drawing what is around me. 

It's alot of fun but quite tricky as I don't have a stylus. I'm using only my finger to draw with which I like to do but the tricky bit is placing the mark in the correct place, no problem for the larger areas but difficult for finer detail. 

I'm a real novice at the moment and these drawings are my first attempts but I'm enjoying experimenting and discovering the possibilities of what might be achieved. 

l'll keep practising and post some more soon :)