Tuesday, 30 June 2015

This Exhibition is a MUST!

Joseph Cornell at The Royal Academy of Arts
https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/exhibition/joseph-cornell
I have waited a long time to see a retrospective of Cornell's work. 
I would visit every day, if I could.

Saturday, 27 June 2015

Sneak Preview

Currently making new work for an upcoming solo show in London. 
Here's a sneak preview... 

   Details of exhibition coming soon ...

Thursday, 18 June 2015

Currently Reading


A collection, in which Antonia Fraser invites 43 writers to write about books which have inspired them, and to compile a list of their 10 favourite books. 
The top 10 favourite books which feature in the lists (with the exception to The Completed Works of Shakespeare) are: 


1: Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
2: Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
3: Bleak House by Charles Dickens
4: Ulysses by James Joyce
5: Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
6: To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
7: Winnie-the-Pooh by A.A Milne
8: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
9: Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
10: Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

Sunday, 7 June 2015

Appearance on Japanese TV

Here is a clip from 'Zoom In Saturday', to promote my exhibition 'Dwelling' in Tokyo




It's the last chance to see this exhibition, in Tokyo. 
'Dwelling' closes 14th June, and will be touring to London in September 2015 (dates tbc).

Tuesday, 2 June 2015

Floral headpiece

My friend got married at the weekend.
For her wedding day, she asked me to create a paper floral headpiece, incorporating some of her favourite flowers. As her and her fiance were getting married in a place called 'The Garden Station', (a restored Victorian railway station in a woodland garden), it seemed apt to include some of the wild flowers in bloom there.
The flowers are made from paper cut from this vintage children's book. 
 
 
 
  (Forget-me-nots, Buttercups, California poppies and Aquilegia sugar plum fairy)
 
 
   Here are some photos of the enchanting venue, and 'the bride' on her wedding day.
 
  
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 
   I also made their wedding gift. 
(A paper-cut light box of 'The Garden Station').
 
The Garden Station, Northumberland