At last I have had the time to spend a day in my studio photographing the process of inking, wiping and printing a plate made from a...

Survivors memory of the moment the bomb dropped At the time of writing this entry I am in Japan and although I have brought books to read...

After a busy day in the studio working with the vintage pillowcases, many of them needed washing. There is something  very...

It’s been a few weeks since i have added anything to the blog as i have been having a bit of a break from thinking. Sometimes i find that...

However, I didn’t just want to produce products that had no significance to the project. Thinking about Clarice’s notebook, her knitting...

#castings #pillowcases

Resting Place seems to becoming a project developing through connections and connectedness. My connections with the archive and research,...

This week has very much been a thinking week, with very little productive making. My thoughts have once again turned to pillowcases,...

Now that I have some initial research done I feel I can start to explore what process to use for the final pillowcases. The casting and...

Clarice, in the middle at the back, with her mother, father brothers and sisters. On Sat 21st April I will be giving an informal talk...

Since doing the castings from the pillowcases and subsequent prints i have been asked by a few people to explain the process. So here is...

Another very exciting development that evening was the offer, by archivist Graham Ward, to collaborate with me to catalogue Clarice’s...

As part of the process of collecting pillowcases I have been cataloguing them. Recording where and when I bought them, noting the...

A meeting I had recently with the wonderful Dr Ruth Richardson (a medical historian and author) revealed that it was quite common during...

I needed to find a way of accessing some tuition and equipment to begin working on my initial ideas. As luck would have it, i received an...

Last year two things happened. I visited Wimereux where Clarice was posted and where she wrote her diary. I went there in the hope of...

The beginning of a new project – Resting Place. Although it may well end up being called Embroider the Truth. Only time will tell. I will...