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My Instagram feed seems to be nothing but reels of

My Instagram feed seems to be nothing but reels of folk telling me about themselves or about what I apparently need in my life.

Anyway, I’ve been planning a school workshop this afternoon, making simple, colourful monoprints with really easy accessible materials. If you go to the last slide you’ll see a vid of my hands (not my face) printing with some pink paint and a bit of cardboard. Some good ASMR moments!

The vote was for colourful frames and here are thr

The vote was for colourful frames and here are three that I’ve just finished painting.

My recent colourful abstract prints ( you can see a few behind me) look really nice in them. I’ll share more images soon. Just couldn’t resist taking these photos. 😁

I will never, ever grow tired of this! I still h

I will never, ever grow tired of this!

I still have a couple of spaces on my workshops in June. Link on here and in my bio.

This view of recent woodblock experiments is such

This view of recent woodblock experiments is such a refreshing sight to my eyes, after a couple of hours sat at my computer writing an email for my subscribers.

I’ve been printing with colours I’m seeing in my garden at the moment. Lots of green obviously, purples, blues, pinks and yellows.

I absolutely love these colour combinations. I think I love all colours, I don’t really have a favourite, but I especially love particular colour combo’s such as green, pink and yellow…maybe with a dash of red thrown in…😉

What other fab colour combinations can you suggest. Can you have too many colours together? Is 5 too many? 😁

So what do you think? Colourful or black frames?

So what do you think? Colourful or black frames?

#colourfulframes #colourfulart #myprocess #originalprint #printmaking

My current favourite way of working. Completely in

My current favourite way of working. Completely intuitive and absorbing and involving a great deal of chance, happy accident, luck, whatever you want to call it.

Sprinkled with a little bit of Sam Groom magic too of course! ✨

Two studio views today. Printmaking using blocks

Two studio views today.

Printmaking using blocks of wood and paper stencils. Endless possibilities.

‘Make it up as we go along’ as it says in the song

‘Make it up as we go along’ as it says in the song. Sounds about right to me.

After having a clean out of my plan chest, I came upon this half finished textile work made up of sections of hand printed fabric which I’d arranged and sewn together and then undecided on what to do next, left in the drawer.

So, I got out a load of other swatches of printed fabric had a bit of a play with different arrangements and just continued where I’d left off.

It’s keeping my mind occupied while I think of my girl sitting two exams today, while she’s feeling quite poorly.

Remembering when I was trying out the first ideas

Remembering when I was trying out the first ideas for my commission with @sheffhospitalcharity for the adult acute mental health ward.

I’m very keen to begin more woodcuts soon. I love those first stages when there are so many possibilities!

A recent enquiry about block printing on old cloth

A recent enquiry about block printing on old clothes, inspired me to print some designs onto an old blue top that I’d managed to get a stain on, right in the front and centre of it. I’m really pleased with the results. I kept the colours very monochromatic as I felt that would work best with the blue. But I have a white top I’m tempted to try something a bit brighter on next!!

The two techniques I’m using here are the exact ones I’m sharing in my next workshop here in Sheffield. Although we’ll be designing prints for bags and tea towels there’s absolutely no reason why you can’t bring an old item of clothing along as well (cotton or linen would be best) to print onto.

If you are interested click on the link and if you sign up to be a subscriber I’ll send you a discount code that is valid until midnight this Sunday.

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