I reckon it's safe to show this year's Christmas cards and gift tags now, as everyone should have received theirs. After two design fails which proved either too expensive (cannot believe how the price of making a rubber stamp has risen) or too time-consuming to make lino-cuts before post deadlines, I settled on simple prints from a cardboard triangle plus the usual rubber stamp culprits. Printed on imitation Japanese tissue from Lawrence Arts, mounted on card. Although not as planned, the blend of materials worked well at the last minute.
Ten days ago the frosts set in overnight. I just transferred photos from my phone of this unbelievably beautiful tree, which appeared the next morning on the surface of a glass table-top in the garden on one of my wrought iron designs forged by Stan Pike; I hadn't held much hope for the quality of the photos at the time, but they captured it beautifully. I can't imagine how the ice trees formed with such intricacy and consistency, but what a gift from Nature.
This is a bit more of a Binky thing, but it's what's been happening during the week. It's the time of year again for some intensive card making, beginning with birthday cards. So many of our friends have birthdays towards the end of the year and at the beginning of the new year I kick off the season making cards for them. This year I was a little later than usual because my work-room required repairs to one wall, and when that was done I made it available for Molly to work from home for a week, and a lovely week it was.
This time I made little envelopes out of origami paper, with a tiny slip of paper tucked in on which to write the the birthday person's name. I remembered this design from my shop days in London. I used to make several ranges of greetings cards to sell in the shop, and these were very popular, so I hope the birthday girls and boys will like them! Now I'm onto making this year's Christmas cards, a bit under pressure to meet post deadlines for Christmas and challenged ideas-wise, but it's always best to just start with something simple and something will come of it in the end. I absolutely love the work of Howard Finster. Like many people, I first encountered it on Talking Head's Little Creatures album art. I was reminded of it while making the music drawings last month for Open Eye's On a Small Scale exhibition; something about the distribution and scale of the different elements which make up Finster's works is not dissimilar to the way I was thinking at the time, and I have been pondering it since delivering the works to the gallery.
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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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