Printing and Postage

After a busy week, I'm back in the studio to play. Sometimes I can spend half an hour pinning and re- pinning images and prints on my pin board, using it like a sketchbook. I find this a great way to start growing new ideas.



I've been working with ideas based around the sense of home and place at the moment. I think it all stems from my passion for travel and having to create homes away from home. I continue to mix themes of old and new, NZ and UK, then and now.

Recording ideas and working drawings in my sketchbook helped me to push concepts further.

A second hand book of London maps, showing area's where I used to frequent, creates a solid background or starting point for future works.

This is a what I'm currently working on. So far I've transferred an enlarged map onto canvas and overprinted it to pick up texture. I love the aged look and how the ink has taken to the image. Stay tuned to see how it looks when it's finished!

 

On a recent trip home to NZ I was given a treasure trove of used stamps, complete with postage marks and dates. Some date back to the 70's and 80's. Sorting through them at the weekend I was washed with nostalgia, seeing stamps I had used myself, as a kid - back when people handwrote letters. Yes, I'm THAT old. Typing this, ironically, makes me want to write a letter, by hand.

One of my fav's - I loved this clipping of the Kiwi stamps with the perfect postage mark..Christchurch.