color!

Its been so long again!, slapped wrist!
So much has been happening and Ive been so busy !
I feel the need to make this post to start the ball rolling again , before I can share some of the creative work thats been going on!

I have been rearranging the bookshelves! half of me thinks this is very sad and half of me is so happy i could skip ! I  love books very much but I hate the jumbled look of disorganized bookshelves, I find it visually offensive, for ages we have had our books hidden away in the music room, easy to get to but not nice to look at! since I have move my studio into our garage now ( a very nice converted garage with heating etc) the space left was crying out to be a library......i was dreading the jumbled look of books in our everyday space.....hence my color organizing!!!! and I love it, just a bit more to do and it will be ready! all we need now is a nice comfy small chair and a lamp and it will be a cosy libary corner that looks beautiful!


Ive been working so hard at Cinnamon girl prints that very little time has been given to my work! there are development though !!!! I will share some images by the end of the week as Im quite excited by how its turning out.

for now xx much love to all

just found this on Sharon McSwiney facebook page! what a coincidence, Id only just posted my bookshelves pic!! wonderful animated bookshelf reorganizing itself!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFnuP9niRUg

Paper cutting

In the background of all the other makings that have been going on there has been some slow and steady paper cutting!
it all started with the photo below, just a little idea, and it made it to the front page of flickr ! so loads of views and interest in it!

I knew it was an idea I wanted to pursue so slowly I have been sketching ideas and trying out some.
I have seen the most amazing book paper cuts before and feel slightly intimidated by them, but thats no reason not to continue and try to find an image that feels like its really mine!

these are all just sketches learning about the cutting and the different ways of photographing the final peices.

 The latest thread Im following involves drilling holes in the books and light bulbs! watch this space for developments.

I need to go charity shopping to find a load of books I feel are ready to give themselves over to Art.

The artists I know about are Su Blackwell (above), her work is amazing, I need to be careful not to create final things that are to close to her work, but looking through lots her themes are very different to the ideas im having so Im not to worried.
also Thomas allens (below) work is fab.