Installation view, Exeter Contemporary 2024, Exeter Phoenix Gallery | Photo by Dom Moore
Liquitex Bio-based Acrylic
When I saw Liquitex had come out with a new line of bio-based acrylics, I knew I had to try them out. After learning how best to work with them, I was pleasantly surprised by their rich colours and viscosity.…
Tree Pigments
Back in March, I was given the task to look for and collect Norwegian Maple buds- for their incredible yellow-making ability, by my ink-making mentor Carolyn Morton, in preparation for an upcoming zoom-laking-lesson. (Laking is the process of making a…
Church Yews of Shropshire
I had a lovely day yesterday visiting a few of the ancient Church Yews scattered across Shropshire with my friend (and ink-making mentor) Carolyn Morton. We began by consulting a lovely little artefact provided by ancient-yew.org that documents the Churchyard…
The In-Between: A practice in flux
During the course of this project, I’ve been playing with making my own inks and pigments from foraged material such as pine cones, needles, acorn husks and garden/studio waste. My original goal was to create large scale works on paper…
Bark Paintings II
More bark paintings- this time made from the pulpy by-product of the oak gall ink-making process. All painted with natural pigment, including oak gall ink. And this lil guy is made from the pulpy oak gall ink-making byproduct mixed with…