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![]() Title: Jug, brush,soap Media: Packaging paper, gesso, watercolour Size:24 " x 24" Price: £95.00 A very still, still life. ![]() Title: In Sync
Media: Board, gesso, paper ,acrylic, lino prints, bolts. NFS Meccano for artists! This piece can be altered, repainted, rebolted - this time it is printed with elements from the other work. ![]() Title: Red Whisk Media: Packaging paper, gesso, watercolour Size:13" x 16" Price: £65.00 ![]() Title: Small Spoon Media: Packaging paper, gesso, watercolour Size:13" x 15" Price: £65.00 ![]() Title: Laundress #2 Laundress#3
Media: Canvas, gesso watercolour pencil Size 46" x 31" Price: £85.00 What did the people who worked here look like? ![]() Title: Spoons, Pegs and Trench Whistle Media: Packaging paper, gesso, watercolour Size:24 " x 24" Price: £95.00 ![]() Title: Brown Betty Teapot and Service Medal Media: Packaging paper, gesso, watercolour Size: 24" x 24" Price: £95.00 This service medal belonged to Gunner George Manser ![]() Title: Tailoring Iron, Spoons and a Ticket to the Front Media: Packaging paper, gesso, watercolour Size: 24" x 24" Price: £95.00 The ticket to the Front was one way. ![]() Title: Green Bottle Media: Packaging paper, gesso, watercolour Size: 14" x !6" Price: £65.00 ![]() Title: 2 Bottles and a Trench whistle Media: Packaging paper, gesso, watercolour Size: 14" x !6" Price: £65.00 ![]() Title: Flat irons - a Flotilla Media: Packaging paper, gesso, watercolour Size:23 " x 60" Price: £395.00 The more I drew the flat irons the more they acquired thir own unique characters and they sort of morphed into boats. ![]() A detail from Flat Irons - a Flotilla. My father dreams often of sailing. I carry his dreams. ![]() Title: 3 irons 2 birds
Media: Packaging paper, gesso, watercolour Size:24" x 24"' Price: £95.00 ![]() Title: Possers, Birds and Brodie Helmet Media: Board, paper, gesso, watercolour Size:5' x 5' This was done for an exhibition at Church called 'Hope' The first bird had appeared in a small book I was doing and they just multiplied. Two things about the birds. One - I looked at photographs on the internet in order to draw the birds and then created a lino cut as I wanted to produce an image that was disconnected from the original. Two - these birds are without wings, they are dropping as did the men in battle. ![]() Title: Green Teapot and Trench Whistle Media: Packaging paper, gesso, watercolour Size: 24" x 24" Price: £95.00 As I continued to work in the laundry and kitchen the nations' thoughts turned to the centenary of the First World War and I began to think about the men who left and the women who were left. ![]() Title: Conference Call Media: Packaging paper, gesso, watercolour Size:31" x 24" I walked into the laundry one morning and a group of irons had been put in a semi - circle. The seemed to be having a conversation! ![]() Title: Box Iron Slug and Reel. Media: Packaging paper, gesso, watercolour Size:21" x 19" Price: £75.00 This is a box iron, the small element propped aginst it is called a 'slug; There were 2 of them and they were heated and put back into the iron to make it ready for ironing. Dashing Away - from the Hall to the Front.
![]() Title: The Amelia Sarah Jane Media : Fused Glass wire Size 16" x 9" NFS Amelia, Sarah and Jane are the names of some women who once worked at Ormesby Hall ![]() Title: Flat iron No.4 Media: Fused Glass, Wire, Pegs Size:7" x 5" NFS ![]() Title: Flat iron Nos.4 & 5 Media: Fused Glass, Wire, Pegs Size:7" x 5" NFS ![]() Title: Flat iron No.3 and 7 Media: Fused Glass, Wire, Pegs Size:7" x 5" NFS ![]() Title: Sole Plates Media: Fused Glass. Wire Size and prices - various ![]() Title: Fused glass objects
Media : Fused Glass.wire Size : between !! and 3 inches . Prices: various ![]() Title: Fused glass objects
Media : Fused Glass.wire Size : between !! and 3 inches Dashing Away - From the Hall to the Front
The Lino Cuts
After a time, having photographed and sent away for prints of my work, I realised that the drawings just don't photograph well. Having been making linocuts of objects and birds I decided to construct hand prints of them. ![]() Title: 5 Birds Media: Paper, printing ink. Size !6" x 20" Price £24.00 ![]() Title: Irons, Bird and Bullet Cases. Media: Paper, printing ink. Size !6" x 20" Price £24.00 ![]() Title: Medal, pegs, trench whistles and bird Media: Paper, printing ink. Size !6" x 20" Price £24.00 Screen Prints
I fist made screen prints in different colours of a flat iron, but as many of them weren't perfect and because they were watercolour based, I reversed them and made some small flotillas! ![]() Title: Flat Iron Screen Print Media: Paper, Printing Ink Size: 12" x 10" Price £8.00 ![]() Title: Small Flotilla
Media: paper, watercolour Size !6" x 12" Price £14.00 ![]() Title: Small Flotilla
Media: paper, watercolour Size !6" x 12" Price £14.00 The Sketchbook Project
In 2012 I joined the sketchbook project based in Mew York, the premise of which was, if you completed a sketchbook and sent it to the project, it would join thousands of others in a gallery in New York. I didn't make the deadline in 2013 as I struggled with the idea of sending off my work and never seeing it again, so I joined again the next year, thinking I would make a duplicate book. Guess what? Didn't make the deadline again! However I still didn't really want to send either of the sketchbooks away. I've learnt a lot from this. Firstly that I can make second drawings which are just as good as the first and, having a sketchbook which is structured and thoughtful informs larger pieces. For example, the bird first appeared here on a piece of broken railing which I found at the back of an oven and the idea of combining drawing and linocuts also started on these pages. ![]() Potato Chipper
![]() Potato Masher
![]() Bird on Trellis
![]() Butter Pats
![]() Pegs
![]() pegs - lino cuts
In conclusion, I feel very privileged to have been given such generous access to their artefacts by NTOrmesby Hall and to have been given the opportunity to exhibit at the Hall . In my time I have had to prepare many essays and sermons and the relief after the deadline was enormous. While preparing pieces for this exhibition though, I remember very clearly thinking that I didn't want it to end and instead of relief I now feel a sense of loss. At the same time I have a new found confidence in myself as an artist. |
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