ripe nut

the other day my mate was telling me how he and a fellow companion were sitting together having lunch, after doing some serious physical labour. As my friend looked up at his companion, mid conversation, he noticed that said companion had a slight tear in the crotch of his trousers. From this tear, his bare naked testicle was being squooshed through the fabric in all it's shiny, hairy glory. We've all been exposed to an accidental bit of scrotum (haven't we?). You can't unsee that kind of stuff. This work honours his experience.

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Here's an oldie but a goodie that has just resurfaced - my original milly molly mandy work, which now gesticulates as a t-shirt design. This drawing is ink on paper and was created in 2008. Fun times!

busy with birthdays

So one of the main reasons I haven't put much up lately, is that I've been getting some things together for Kent's birthday! What with being on the road, and then living in the same room together (I had to banish him to the bathroom while I did some things last night) has proved challenging in terms of being secretive! Anyhoo, it has been a fantastic excuse to have an almost virtually handmade birthday - you can see more of the bits I made on anecdote, but here are my two favourites - the birthday card and an IOU voucher for Kent's preferred drawing pens. I quite like the voucher - I might continue this!

(And a very happy birthday my darling! xxx)

dug from the dark from long ago

new work!

Some songwriter friends I know have recently married, and this work made me think of their beautiful and musical marriage!

The work seemed to discover itself, and makes me think of Em's golden hair and dreamy nature, and Harry's happy and warm vibe, so I hope they like it!

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and the mutants begin!

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and the walls became the world all around

i don't know how this one slipped through the cracks - it is one of my favourites, made last year for part of the series 'and the walls became the world all around'; i share it with you now!

Approx 23.8 x 15 cm, collage on found image.

p.s. apologies for the piece of thread in front of the image - it is late at night (for me anyway) and my scanner is slow, my computer slower. There was all kinds of schlepp on the scanner bed, i am choosing not to care right this minute - one day i might re-scan it for you all!

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this is one of my earlier attempts at milly-molly-mandy (my favourit-ist of all my favourite story book characters). This story always made me happy because i always wanted to play shop too (and now i do :s ) and Miss Muggins' shop always seemed so much fun - what with the sweets, fabric and string and lots of other useful things!

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A new thought. lacking in inspiration (old thought), so i have decided to digitally archive some of my favourite past journal works for your (and my) enjoyment!

Paperwork 1

Hello All!

Apologies for the delay, but i finally went to C3 yesterday to photograph (doofus me forgot the camera for the opening) my work. Please forgive my pretty terrible photography - not my strongest point I admit! Unfortunately c3's site is also un-updated with pics, so you'll just have to make do with these!




Ok they are even more boring than i thought - but look yay! hung on a wall for a change! I tried individual shots, however my computer (and brain) is struggling with rotation.

lovely framing work from the dudes at omnus conservation framing.

birthday book

here are some images of the book i made for kent for his birthday - i know it was over a month ago, but i thought hey! time to get some pics up there...

they say to mountains,

the final of the four works to be (maybe) put into the Paperwork 1 show. approx 10.5 cm x 17 cm, collage on found image.

breathe

collage on found image, approx 12 x 18 cm

when

collage on found image, approx 12 x 18cm

processes of thought

[and] the earth wore another face

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