Quick plug!

just a very quick plug for my new shop
Its now open!!! http://www.etsy.com/shop/cinnamongirlprints do go and have a look
heres a quick peek at some of the things you will find there.
also take a look at my other blog dedicated to the print work http://cinnamongirlprints.blogspot.com/

apologies if you have been waiting for the next interview I promise it will be up this weekend now!!!!

postcards

I spent a wonderful few hours this week in my local antique centre browsing through old postcards!
I went especially to find some gems, but I wasn't interested so much in the fronts of the postcards but the backs with handwritten messages and addresses.
I wasnt dissapointed there were hundreds of them all with such beautiful hand writting on them and wonderful gentle phrasing. I spent ages reading them, dipping into other poeples past lives
'Dear Reg , I hope you are in the pink!'
'wouldn't you rather be strolling on the prom'
'many thanks for your letter'
'to greet you on your birthday'
and the names....Reg , Ethel, Noreen....fabulous
once I got the few I choosen (for now) home, I started scanning them as I have an imediate idea for my screen printing business but I have a feeling they are going to be used in many ways.
Whilst I was scanning them and looking in more detail at the asthetic of them I started noticing the post dates! the oldest is dated 1905!!!!!! that makes it 105 years old!!!! this bowled me over...I find it so powerful, holding somthing that old, somthing so personal it feels like a direct link back to that time.
I will show you how the screen printed ones turn out in the next few days! Im hoping to print  them onto really light fabrics maybe even reuse an old nightie or dress, little floaty windows into another time.

another interview coming later this week with Elisabeth Omdahl - check out her amazing prints

Helen Roberts work

I seem to be on a roll for finding wonderful artists making exciting work and I really want to share my finds with you all - although I'm sure some of you will already have made these discoveries!!

The latest is Helen Roberts - Helen describes herself as a graduate in Contemparary Crafts, working with textiles and ceramics, she uses a variety of techniques to produce mixed media imagery based pieces.

1. Board 1 close up., 2. Handmade Felt with Screen print., 3. Screen Printed Postcard Samples, 4. Large Postcard Canvas., 5. Vintage Embroidered Postcards., 6. Porcelain Glove Impression., 7. Lace Doilies Set 1 Close Up, 8. Map Set 2, 9. Postcard Box

 I love the work she has done with maps and postcards, stitching the lines of the map and the hand written letters on the postcards. I  see it as retracing the steps of journey from the past and re writing all those words from lives past, I cant help but think of the stories behinds these journeys , wonderful evocative work.

Her ceramic work using delicate fabrics, laces and silks to make impressions with in porcelain are a wonderfully playing with ideas of fragility.

I hope you enjoy her work too xxxx

  Here are links to her flickr and blog

http://www.hmroberts.co.uk/  http://www.flickr.com/photos/31222485@N04/