Boats and sails
Boats made from driftwood, box wood an other findings. The sails connect to previous printed textile work. The movement or drape of woven cloth has always been the element that
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Small ships and boats
Small boats or ships from many waterways, tugs, river boats all fishing boats, sailing boats evoke a sense of adventure. Even the classic ‘paper boat. These magical vessels occur in
Monkeys
All my monkeys are made from (my) hand printed textile pieces. They are a composition of colour and limbs that curl and twirl round branches or any domestic hanging place.
Sailing-Boat
Adventures on the high seas? At least a feeling of past exploration — into poetry and theatre.
Eclogue Rustics
Three of my Eclogue Rustics. Echoing Virgils characters as they toil in the fields in Roman times grumbling about politics and their employers.
Circus Characters
Acrobats balancing on unicycles , tight-ropes or hoops.They all hold a painted stick to suggest a place and dimension
St. George and the Dragon
Tableau for puppet show
Shadow Puppets
Drawn from the Wayang Shadow puppets of Java. A visit to the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford gave me a starting point for work in the Exhibition ‘7 Makers’ at 78 Derngate, Northampton, 2016