Since 1994, I have been making my own notebooks and sketchbooks. If I don't make one from scratch, I customise the notebook with my marbled papers and do things like gluing envelopes inside the covers for keeping ephemera. They tend to be scruffy, rambling affairs, but they are all mine, and I never suffer 'first page angst' when starting a new one - because it was already begun when I made it. It's nice to be able to customise proportions and to mix the papers inside according to my current interests. Many are tiny, doll's house proportions - easy to slip into a pocket or small handbag for instant availability in situations when it might be frowned upon to whip out a sketchbook!
The other day I remembered a drawing I had made a few years ago in connection with the work I am doing at the moment. I had to dig around to find the notebook I thought might contain it. When I finally found it and opened it I was amazed to find a wealth of forgotten drawings which I had never documented or scanned into the archives I keep of my work. They were from 2012, and experimental and fun. I didn't actually find the drawing I was looking for, but the forgotten body of work contained the elements I was seeking, and I was delighted to rediscover the work and find it relevant to what I am doing now. But how does it happen that work can get so completely forgotten? Clear out the kiln room! Believe it or not, there is a very nice, quite large, Potterycrafts top-loader electric kiln behind all the junk. This is what happens when you don't use a space for a while, then clear out the house! It would be great to be able to see it again, and exciting to begin new work ...
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Welcome to my work journal - a weekly update on drawings, work in progress, doodles and day-dreaming.
I changed the website address a few months ago, so some older links on previous posts are broken. If you click one of those and it takes you to a strange page, simply replace the .co.uk after the heatherelizawalker. with weebly.com and it will work again. <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
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As well as the work you see here, I illustrate under the name of Binky McKee (my mother's maiden name was McKee, Binky was every single one of my great grandmother's many cats!)
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Dissolving PeopleA symbol on the footpath outside a local primary school gradually disappearing as the image breaks up and wears away until eventually it is obliterated by leaves and barely discernible. Photographed at intervals of several months between February 2021 and November 2022, oldest at the top.
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April 2024
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A 2013 work book, still very much in use Please note all images on this website are ©Heather Eliza Walker 2013 - 2020, and may not be used or reproduced without prior consent. |