Four long days at the beautiful, spacious and steeped in history, Porthmeor Studios, St Ives. So short a time but it felt like a luxury, a holiday away from the norm, I didn't have to rush off each day to carry on with all my other duties, I stayed, immersed myself and made the most of the space.
It was an opportunity to work in an empty environment, away from the chaos and clutter of my studio back in Marazion. An opportunity to see works in progress clearly and develop ideas and experiment with no set agenda or outcome. Most of the pieces I'd been working on were destroyed at the end, mainly due to the ephemeral fragile nature of them. It felt good, it always does.
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Mould studies using biro ink .... Developments of my mould imagery, by having my works on paper and wood arranged I'm able to have a constant reference point with the sculptural work I'm currently playing with. Fascinated with mould growth and the intertwining forms connecting living and dead matter, where ivy grows through a building wall, where dug up roots begin to re-shoot and where fallen trees quickly become covered with crawling plant life, is where I'm gathering inspiration.
![]() Experimented last week printing onto wood - love the process and enjoying developing the mould prints I created for DarkRooms. The deadline for Leth looms and I have unfinished work, this almost seems fitting for an event entitled 'Limbo'. Is it right to put work out that's in development stages? I have several printed tablets to choose from all have differing qualities. Printing on to wood is something I will be developing next in the studio. It takes me back to my love of photography (what initially hooked me into the arts) the dark room process of waiting to see the ghostly image emerge in the liquid tray. With this process I'm rinsing the wood under the running tap, it's hit and miss what, from the original image, appears. I'm enjoying the unpredictable nature of it. Buried 12 panels of wood today up at the beautiful Kestle Barton grounds. The panels of wood had been worked on prior to placing in various settings (using mould forming materials and a little bit of carving) I chose a variety of different environments, buried in earth, hidden in trees, submerged in water, placed under the density of the woodland debris.
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