Prints, Small Sculptures

The Little Rose Thorn Shoes, now part of the permanent collection of the The Brüder Grimm Museum in Kassel.

I make, I mend, I stitch. Even something as small as a stitch can become subversive.

I work with sculpture and printmaking, usually cyanotype. I explore themes of disclosing and revealing, wrapping up, birthing and layering. Fragility, rather than protection. Things which are broken and things which are mended.


Recently, I have re-visited themes of old European folk and fairy tale. I am moved by the process of making; sculpture, weaving, knitting and sewing.

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#solarplateetching at #wyprintworkshop today. A long day, but I am getting there with these foxes. Solar plate printing can be an unforgiving process, needing a good deal of organizational thought. Ha! I made some expensive mistakes today. I loved my father. Anthony Earnshaw. I have some scratchy memories. ...and for no particular reason I am back down this rabbit hole. C: That's beautiful! F: That's dark... #arttherapy #drawing #manga #mangaka #innerchild Small, dark prints of foxes. Foxes entering an interior space and climbing the stairs. Exposing a cyanotype onto a drawing, using a home-made nest... A small sculpture in progress, 'Net'. Thinking about the entrapments of motherhood and the tangles which cannot be unraveled. Made during my #arttherapy session. I am still thinking about tulips and foxes, my "real" art, but the scribbling, smearing and cutting up seams more accessible to me as things are.

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