Category Archives: new work

4 weeks to go! Cultural transitions exhibition at the 5&33 Gallery Amsterdam

For the next 4 weeks my current work will be at the 5&33 Gallery Amsterdam.

A number of pieces have already been sold and the work will go on to be shown at a new location in Amsterdam at the end of the month. Details to follow.

http://www.5and33.nl/happenings/event/17-gallery/107-the-cultural-transitions-exhibition

Sold from my Wall series. Very pleased to see this piece sold, it started life on Stoke Newington High street, East London as a worn out billboard and has been given another chance to connect with it’s new surroundings, somewhere new and far from home. The piece is a digital print, edited in Photoshop and sewn onto a stretched canvas with mending yarn.

: Digitally manipulated image with mending yarn stitch and acrylic

: Nine canvas – Grid Series.

String-print on found objects

I am developing my string-print technique and printing on found objects, in this case a metal tea tin. I have cleaned the surface with white spirit and wire wool then used a metal primer spray to prepare the surface. The primer is actually a good base colour for the first layer.

I am now using plastic rope as a reusable and washable tool for print making; this produces a similar print affect as the mending yarn and comes in different widths.

The idea is to apply a layered surface to something old and discarded. This will enhance the object and while keeping its origin function and shape, the surface transforms it’s visual identity.

I will eventually spray with a matt vanish to seal the surface. IMG_20150401_122253

Preparing to print

Back in the studio today, using the mending yarn to make marks on Lino. The plan is to print over my digital collages and make a limited edition print series. I have varied then thickness of the yarn to create variation in line and detail.

The making of the Neon grid

My latest work completed last week, Neon grid will be exhibited at the Cultural transitions group show coming up at 5 & 33 Gallery Amsterdam this month.

Acrylic on linen canvas,

120cmx100cm

Wall series