Day 3:

Final day of Mark’s exhibition. Not as many people turned up today, so I had the chance to complete my Palm Tree print. I also accidently made a beautiful blue, which I thought would be great for the background, so I have started another print, with the same stencils. I will come back to it later and try a different combination of colours.

Artist in Residence at Chhaap Printmaking Studio. Baroda, Gujurat, India

I am spending the whole month of February as the artist in residence at Chhaap Printmaking Studios. I am delighted to be here and have the opportunity to liaise with many local Indian printmakers. Many graduated from MS University here in Baroda, I'm told it's the best University for Arts in India.

The facilities are perfect. I can wake up and walk into the printmaking studio, literally. So for the next month I’m living and breathing printmaking and I will be documenting my progess here.

The prints will be a visual diary of the past three months I've spent travelling. I started in Nepal, in the stunning Himalayas. I then began my India trip in Darjeeling in the North West, after a very bumpy 18 hour bus journey from Kathmandu to the border crossing. I finished all the way down South in Trivandrum in the state of Kerala.

It’s been vibrant, exciting, emotional, relaxing, exhausting...it’s been incredible.

Day 1 at Chhaap:

Introduction to the studios...buying art materials...finding places to eat...meeting Mark Brusse, the previous artist who has just spent all of January printmaking here at Chhaap. (Look him up he’s done a lot!) He believes "one of the functions of art is to exacerbate the irrational side, the part of art and life which isn't reasonable".

Day 2:
I’ve started printmaking already. My first image is of the palm trees in Goa, on Arambol beach.

It was also Mark’s exhibition of the work he has produced throughout his month's stay here. People from The Times of India came to interview him. And it also gave me an opportunity to meet some of the local artists and people who will be attending a workshop I will be holding.

Greetings Cards

A sample of some of the greetings cards I hand printed during Bath Arts Fringe Festival this year. It was a beautiful sunny day outside and I could hear the sweet notes of a saxophone floating through the window as I did my printmaking.

And here's a heads up of what's to come, in the final few months before I head to India, for four months and do my printmaking residency in Gujarat. 

I will be exhibiting some new and old prints at Windmill Hill City Farm in the heart of Bristol for two months, commencing at the beginning of September, until the end of October. 

I will be exhibiting as part of Art on the Hill in Bedminster and Southville, Bristol. Local Arts trail involving lots of neighboring creative’s. 

Also I am in the process of creating new work based on Soho in London, to go in a local Soho cafe, alongside Paper Jukebox artists. 

Flowers

I most recently exhibited in Kentish at Flaxon Ptootch with fellow Paper Jukebox members.
This is a glimpse of the print on display.

Fringe Arts Bath - 'Time'

It’s about 'TIME' to tell you what I've been creating recently. Time has been the theme of my most recent exhibition as part of Fringe Arts Bath, with my wonderful fellow arty friends in Paper Jukebox.                     
The exhibition has been open to the public from 25^th June – 10^th June at The Old Officer’s Club, Stall Steet, Bath—right opposite the Roman Baths.
I did a bit of live printmaking in the venue to make the process more of a spectacle and less of a mystery. This included making greetings cards.My new work, which I created for the exhibition will be posted after take down this Sunday. Oh and my artwork made it to the front page of the guide and website. Click HERE to see and read a bit more about 'TIME' and our exhibition.  

Editorial Commission for EPDA

^ Heres my latest commission in print.