Recycled paper - how hard can it be?

I just had to buy my first new paper in over 2 years so I can print my MA report. Managed to feel ok with Xerox recycled pure+ - 100% post consumer, no bleach, paper wrapped.

Ivory Black

I have made my first two inks for the Slow Writing project:

Ivory black and vine black.

Thanks to the donations of vine tips

and the ivory tusk

The ivory is a beautiful deep brown. The vine much bluer black.

The muller given to me by Rob has made such a difference - beautiful glossy liquid with lovely patterns on the base as it is created.

I will start in the hawthorn and oak gall soon.

The MA show web site is up and running, if not yet complete:

www.smuma.org

Oak Apples

Thanks to the lovely Helen - A Farmer's Daughter - for the Oak Galls. I will keep you posted!

Beginning the ink

Today I am off to carbonise... I have vine tips collected from Wild Fig farm, Chardonnay and Pinot Noir. I have a fleece from Danae's mum's farm in Llangynidr, and a sheeps skull from Llyn y Fan mountain. No luck with the ivory yet, tho I plan to try some charity shops on the way down to Fireworks.

Faraday was a bookbinder

I just found out that Faraday was a bookbinder first. I just love co-incidence.

Enchanting History exhibition

Llantarnam Grange

Western Mail article

long time

ok - i have been lapse. a catch up is required.

ma project - slow writing: an etymology of ink. using all the detritus etc of the past few yrs to make inks, explore writing, drawing, making, historical, political, philosophical, ....

exhibition work for llantarnam grange arts map show - 5 birds; a collaboration with Danae Hunter - final year homeopath student. A series of performances documented photographically, a book, prints, bird shrines, beliefs, medicine, craft ...

some images to follow.