The book is in an edition of twenty and is a wordless, panoramic etching of The Tempest.
Showing posts with label Cornwall. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cornwall. Show all posts
Friday, 5 December 2014
The Tempest revisited
Here are some new promotional photos of an etched concertina book I made back in 2011. This was a difficult piece of work to photograph, because it's such a wide book!
The book is in an edition of twenty and is a wordless, panoramic etching of The Tempest.
The book is in an edition of twenty and is a wordless, panoramic etching of The Tempest.
Thursday, 26 January 2012
New etched book - The Tempest
Sunday, 18 December 2011
Minack III
The plate has been finished! Below are some photos of a dummy version of the book and some details from the print...
Thursday, 17 November 2011
Minack II
Enter Mariners wet...
Above and below are a little preview of some new work I'm doing for an etched book. Next week aquatints will be made from the plate. And then the bookmaking begins...
Saturday, 15 October 2011
It's just not cricket
Below are a selection of commissioned illustrations I did for a Cornish family archive.
One of the family ancestors played cricket for England in the mid 1800s. The outfits may look a bit like something from A Clockwork Orange, but cricket players once dressed like this:
Another family ancestor was taken to court by her own son in the late 1700s -
...and another was a successful businessman and merchant in the 1600s. This character has been the most challenging and awkward of all of them to draw.
One of the family ancestors played cricket for England in the mid 1800s. The outfits may look a bit like something from A Clockwork Orange, but cricket players once dressed like this:
Another family ancestor was taken to court by her own son in the late 1700s -
...and another was a successful businessman and merchant in the 1600s. This character has been the most challenging and awkward of all of them to draw. 
Wednesday, 28 September 2011
Minack
Over the next couple of months, I’ll be working on a new project set at the Minack Theatre, Cornwall.
Built in to the cliffs just outside of the Cornish village of Porthcurno, the Minack Theatre was created in the 1930s by Rowena Cade to stage her own theatrical productions. The site is as unusual as it is beautiful, with a stage built above cliffs, and hundreds of carved stone seats for its audience. What attracted me most to the site was the way that features of the theatre blended in to the granite cliffs. A stone archway, inscribed with celtic carvings, may lead on to a stair-case built in to the stone cliffs, for example.
Below are some quick sketches I made of the theatre when I visited last week. More work to follow later...
Built in to the cliffs just outside of the Cornish village of Porthcurno, the Minack Theatre was created in the 1930s by Rowena Cade to stage her own theatrical productions. The site is as unusual as it is beautiful, with a stage built above cliffs, and hundreds of carved stone seats for its audience. What attracted me most to the site was the way that features of the theatre blended in to the granite cliffs. A stone archway, inscribed with celtic carvings, may lead on to a stair-case built in to the stone cliffs, for example.
Below are some quick sketches I made of the theatre when I visited last week. More work to follow later...
Tuesday, 31 May 2011
New project
Some new images for a commissioned project, which involves doing illustrations for a Cornish family archive.
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