Upcycling paperback book

Book Folding Fairy House

Fold book in shape of house and decorate with bits and bobs!  Wool used for grass. Sea shells for garden ornaments.

Collograph Printing 2013

Totally love this medium.  I prepared a mount board by cutting into it in the negative space.  Then using texture of broken egg shells, torn wallpaper, graphite, cheesecloth created depth.  It was ined up and put through a printing press.  I loved the prints so much that I kept this original plate as a picture and framed it.

Mixed Media Stitched Square.

 Mixed Media Stitch Readers Challenge - This was selected for print in Cloth Paper Scissors Magazine in 2014.
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 This is a personal achievement for me and I am very pleased.

Thermofax stencils and hand and machine embroidery.

Where my work is taking me today

I am starting on friday with a new programme teaching disabled people miniature gardening.  I am going to do a video presentation of my visit to Madeurodam in Amsterdam.  This is an amazing place which sets out the buildings etc of Amsterdam in Miniature.  It is an inspiring place to visit.  This is where I will take my inspiration from and work through making gardens with them.  They have a new purpose built community centre with raised beds.  I hope to allocate a plot in the raised bed to each one to work on their own interpretation of what a miniature garden is to them.  Looking forward to it.