Typewriter Mourning

In the week of the last-ever typewriter built in the UK rolling off the production lines in North Wales, it's high time to dust down your keys and join me for two winter evenings limbering up your index fingers to create typewriter works of art, to be hung in celebration and memory of this fine piece of engineering.  

TYPEWRITER ART

2 Evenings Course
Starting: Tuesday 4th December 2012
Ending: Tuesday 11th December 2012
From: 6:30 pm to 9:00 pm

Spaces available

A intensive 2 evening workshop in the art of typewriters/typewriter art. This is a rare opportunity to experiment with 4 different typewriters for creating text as image, image as text. With inspired examples of artists pushing the medium of the typewriter forwards you will become addicted to the potential and possibilities of the instant print gratification of typewriting.

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Commissioned

Creasing 1000 delicious GFSmith covers for AnatomyProjects.

Printmaking & Bookmaking collaborative workshop

A few weeks ago I collaborated with Sarah Jane Lawton of Sharing the Making to design and deliver a collaborative Innovation workshop for the Fred Longworth's 'Nurture Group'. The project named 'The advantage of being me' for year 8 & 9 students, encouraged a discussion on future aims, hopes and dreams. In celebration of themselves the students learnt and developed new skills in creating prints and books. We had such positive sessions with each student fully engaged and growing in confidence throughout the day. We used a model of mentorship to ensure that everyone was given ample attention, understood what was being asked of them but were also challenged by each task. The feedback was wonderful! 
I feel very privileged to have had the opportunity to work with the Nurture Group, and with Sarah. Her vision and positivity are infectious.

(another) victim of the modern world

Chaffinch garden casualty - captured by JMS. 

November comings & goings

I've been collecting brittle spider carcasses, looking closely, enjoying eating off Poole Pottery & visiting my family. Not to mention knitting presents, taking days off to embark on long autumnal walks, investing in plenty of human contact. I find when the nights draw in and the air turns cool it's more vital than ever to touch other people and let little come between embracing.

All NEW *Text & Image Course - This Weekend!

TEXT & IMAGE

Weekend Course
Starting: Saturday 10th November 2012
Ending: Sunday 11th November 2012
From: 10:00 am to 4:00 pm

Experience a 2 day workshop of 4 micro projects delivered on the mornings and afternoons of each day. You will be exploring and experimenting with the use of text and image to inspire new visual narratives. Using found text to create poems, your own images as muse for text rich works, 2 word stories to create a series of pictures, limitations of media to test and inspire new image making possibilities, and the poetics of found objects to create new ways of storytelling that will inform the way you go on to make your own publications. Using typewriters, lettraset and collage, you will come away from HBP with the confidence and enthusiasm to translate and develop your ideas into creative book works. 

If you would like to book onto the course, there are a few spaces left, so please get in touch with Hot Bed Press here. Alternatively, please call the studio on 0161 743 3111.

* I will also be running this same course at the newly opened London Center for Book Arts on November 24th & 25th 2012. Please visit here for bookings!