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 Title : Flat Iron No 4
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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