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Mavina Baker PrintmakerMavina Baker @ Teacup Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03402586009215614335noreply@blogger.comBlogger193125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6286090366839523419.post-29390462435627210992023-01-16T22:28:00.002+00:002023-01-16T22:28:17.900+00:00Bookbinding for Valentines on marvellous Mersea Island<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbHdPw7Ts7b95OVv_Ck2SBNQBF2xHNkfhmaHwh7xILzO6SKpBs1PE5fS-FKkQQddBdf5t9H4kYlixNNrGlfD9dVBibErhPnHr4_ZTAfmTsNU8KisxaB3i3ngUDqMgY96YH90yUUJsQiPnBHxdJdnNqfN2-25Z588irJWivQ_LWwvPqo904UEAVCz8i/s3633/99952222-7E2B-458F-9097-5997599163DE.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="3633" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbHdPw7Ts7b95OVv_Ck2SBNQBF2xHNkfhmaHwh7xILzO6SKpBs1PE5fS-FKkQQddBdf5t9H4kYlixNNrGlfD9dVBibErhPnHr4_ZTAfmTsNU8KisxaB3i3ngUDqMgY96YH90yUUJsQiPnBHxdJdnNqfN2-25Z588irJWivQ_LWwvPqo904UEAVCz8i/s320/99952222-7E2B-458F-9097-5997599163DE.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px; text-align: left;">Come and cut and fold paper to make a unique heart shaped book, that you can fill with love, friendship and kindness, for that special someone in your life; your partner, a best friend, a new grandchild.</span></div><p></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24.7px;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;">We will make a heart shape book in this workshop, filled with paper, cut to shape. There is a lot of cutting of the paper to shape, but as with all binding, satisfying to make.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24.7px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;"></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;">The book will be sewn, lined and finished in red of course. The hard part will be deciding if you will keep it for yourself or give it away!</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24.7px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;">In this season of chocolates and red hearts, I wondered how and when did the heart become associated with romance in Western culture? The early Egyptians believed the heart was the seat of the soul, the Greeks, the seat of both reason and emotion.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24.7px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;">By the Medieval era heart-shaped books were composed of hand written love poetry, often illuminated, folios stitched together, and when the book is opened it blossoms, so to speak, into a heart. The oldest surviving example is Danish, made in the 1500’s. </span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;">Includes all materials and use of tools. </span><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;">Tea, coffee and biscuits are provided.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;">To book </span><a href="https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/516982076307">https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/516982076307</a></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24.7px;"><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24.7px;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.079999923706055px;">Google medieval heart books to see more.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24.7px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPsfn8FbWxlvzwW9aRC-e4-5Poy2jjVjgVf67ylpt7qzMu5uBF7hqgWq-WYrPuhaP6G6NUyaCs6CizEfp1bn5DltwoCIL5mQ_gu6_0MJC6lTWc11R28JNHvYDWfNM0Zvw47RJ0lwVOAWjWhsqEIWjmGOQScj_prAhOmELLQAgU04Ra9Pkph8NqlsPW/s785/40C2F84F-B2C8-40F1-A00D-EE9EE0696C3C.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="785" data-original-width="759" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPsfn8FbWxlvzwW9aRC-e4-5Poy2jjVjgVf67ylpt7qzMu5uBF7hqgWq-WYrPuhaP6G6NUyaCs6CizEfp1bn5DltwoCIL5mQ_gu6_0MJC6lTWc11R28JNHvYDWfNM0Zvw47RJ0lwVOAWjWhsqEIWjmGOQScj_prAhOmELLQAgU04Ra9Pkph8NqlsPW/s320/40C2F84F-B2C8-40F1-A00D-EE9EE0696C3C.jpeg" width="309" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuwfqRbe02_36MOshD2CpZwhnkal7p6d_r3wGz6JqJbQyTwxrwAehLxg3wz_9xJVlS2YRiPJ8teGhnfnDlEwZJSsYIlYHVJj-7X7aOQ5yf0lpE58K9dFggq72Bdi6JQCgFyfAXuFtUncbAJIdecLyOMmhhTLRrSRp_NpUsEmbyCuMFB72DBeoD7k5Y/s840/E7860BCA-C39B-4613-961E-18AD26DF6E50.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="840" data-original-width="828" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuwfqRbe02_36MOshD2CpZwhnkal7p6d_r3wGz6JqJbQyTwxrwAehLxg3wz_9xJVlS2YRiPJ8teGhnfnDlEwZJSsYIlYHVJj-7X7aOQ5yf0lpE58K9dFggq72Bdi6JQCgFyfAXuFtUncbAJIdecLyOMmhhTLRrSRp_NpUsEmbyCuMFB72DBeoD7k5Y/s320/E7860BCA-C39B-4613-961E-18AD26DF6E50.jpeg" width="315" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.079999923706055px;"><br /></span><p></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24.7px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;"></span></p>Mavina Baker @ Teacup Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03402586009215614335noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6286090366839523419.post-57108941023600041652016-08-04T16:23:00.002+01:002016-08-08T17:38:35.167+01:00re-firing the pressNo blogs for over a year . . . now I feel as if I've just woken from a very long sleep.<br />
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This week I've done some printmaking, the first since we moved to Oxford nearly a year ago. I haven't had a studio for a while, although I'm lucky enough to have a space in the garage. However, it's on the damp side . . . so I'm in the process of oiling my beautiful big Albion which did get a bit rusty.<br />
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My trusty Adana has been patiently waiting, and showing no sign of rust whatsoever! Fantastic little machines. I was thrilled to get printing making again. Starting with some greeting cards.</div>
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Checking out colours. I have various bits of wooden type, most old and somewhat used . . . I think the unevenness has a certain charm.</div>
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This will be my last post at Mavina Baker Printmaker. And, it would be rude not to say goodbye on this blog, although I do plan to continue at <a href="https://teacuppress.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">Teacup Press</a>.<br />
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I didn't realise until very recently that this blog had come to its natural end. We moved house last year, quite disruptive on its own, but not only that.<br />
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Mr B was diagnosed and treated for prostate cancer - a bit of a worry! Please encourage the men in your life to have <a href="http://prostatecanceruk.org/prostate-information/getting-diagnosed/psa-test" target="_blank">PSA</a> checks (even in their 40's & 50's) just a simple blood test, each year. And, my darling Dad died, suddenly and unexpectedly. It was for him that this blog came into being (the official line as an adjunct to my MA was an untruth) and he is no longer around to see it, so time to move on.<br />
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I've thoroughly enjoyed writing it, loved you following me and will start afresh at <a href="https://teacuppress.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">Teacup Press</a>.<br />
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To think that only last week I was on the Print and Bind workshop with <a href="http://emilymartin.com/" target="_blank">Emily Martin</a>. Three days of printmaking, then using a Drumleaf binding turning said prints into books. This binding is particularly useful for binding prints (or any other double page spread images) as there is no need to consider matching up images or text and the pages open nice and flat.</div>
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Gelatine mono-printing is a process that is new to me, but one I'd highly recommend - it's very satisfying, and so simple and quick, and if you want to, it's possible to achieve some very subtle and fine marks.</div>
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Water soluble inks are rolled over a 'plate' made of firm gelatine, with soft sponge rollers. You will need to make it as much as three times stronger than you normally would, then press items onto the surface. Lightly pressing onto the back of the paper with your hand will transfer the image.</div>
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New supplies! Soft rollers and half a kilo of gelatine . . . eBay has a lot to answer for!</div>
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For further information on workshops contact <a href="http://www.bookbindingworkshops.com/workshops/overview.html" target="_blank">Lori Sauer</a>Mavina Baker @ Teacup Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03402586009215614335noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6286090366839523419.post-35634776166316673762015-05-15T18:34:00.001+01:002015-05-15T18:34:54.455+01:00H is for . . .I've been toying with the idea of a series of alphabet prints for a while, small British mammals . . . but what starts with an i, or a x for that matter?<br />
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Okay, so not only mammals but birds, fish and insects as well.<br />
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Q may be quail, as I've just read (in an old observer book of British birds, date unknown) that this plump little brown bird is a summer visitor. The book also goes on to mention that in winter these birds are shipped into the country for food, under most cruel conditions . . . plus ça change.<br />
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Still, u, x and z elude me, any ideas gratefully accepted.<br />
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Anyhow, to make a start. H is for hedgehog<br />
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I have not mastered the art of planning a print on paper in its entirety. I draw directly onto the lino, and cut, print and change things as I go along. Had I drawn it out fully beforehand I might well have placed the H elsewhere. </div>
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Last weekend I persuaded Mr B to visit an artists' book fair in Norwich, after all, I said, we're almost on the doorstep as we're in Mersea . . . two hours and almost 60 miles later it was beginning to feel like a bit of a long way!</div>
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Wanting to park close to the forum we headed for the city centre and found a car park on waste ground behind the old Eastern Electricity building, lucky because a football match in the town meant the parking spaces where hard to find. </div>
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And lucky too, because we could see that the walls are completely covered in text, an <a href="http://sculpturefornorwich.co.uk/NorwichSculpture.php?id=208" target="_blank">artwork</a> no less! Commissioned by <a href="http://sculpturefornorwich.co.uk/index.php" target="_blank">Sculpture for Norwich</a></div>
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And a very helpful parking attendant let us know that Moore's <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utopia_(book)" target="_blank">Utopia</a> was written on the building by artist Rory Macbeth, and that the building is scheduled for demolition some time in the near future.</div>
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The reason for our visit was to see <a href="http://www.turnthepage.org.uk/" target="_blank">Turn the Page</a> at the Forum. Turn the Page is an artists' book fair and exhibition, showing work by artists that are inspired by the conceptual and structural properties of the book form. In its fourth year, this book fair although small is perfectly formed, with a good selection of exhibitors, exhibits and the ongoing <a href="http://www.turnthepage.org.uk/page3.htm" target="_blank">Norfolk Longbook</a> project which invites submissions from artists and poets of all abilities.</div>
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Live music and stories provided by <a href="http://www.twocoatscolder.com/" target="_blank">Two Coats Colder</a>, an acoustic band from North Essex, who played beautiful new and traditional folk music. </div>
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The hurly-burly of the weekend is over, and BABE is done and dusted once again. After what seems like a fairly long time to prepare, it felt like the weekend was over in an instant . . .</div>
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Checking my display,</div>
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and looking out, in the quiet time, before the doors open to the public.</div>
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(Is a <i>Press</i> the plural noun for a mass of book lovers?)</div>
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Perched behind a table for a couple of days is surprisingly tiring. Possibly because I spent a lot of time bobbing up and down like a demented cork, as I couldn't decide whether it appears more welcoming to sit or stand. </div>
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Working out which of your visitors wants to talk, and then keeping on topic, is not straightforward. And, I'm astonished by the more personal revelations visitors disclose. However, I guess that means my work has struck a chord, which must be a good thing . . . </div>
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I think this may be specific to BABE - but I'd like to mention the terrific tea trolley and cool cake brought by lovely (tea) ladies Beryl and Violet, it do keep a girl going when she's alone on a stand, and is very much appreciated.</div>
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Back in the studio, books still in bags . . . ready to tidy away and organise myself for the next project. Allowing all the ideas that are invariably generated by a show to develop in my sketchbooks (to be filtered, distilled), always a favourite time. </div>
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It's funny, but it usually takes a wedding or a funeral for connection between wider family members and I ask myself why wait for special events . . . but I've gone and done that thing, with this project! I suppose we're too busy and live too far apart. </div>
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Note to self - Stop and smell the roses!</div>
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Dad is 80 this month, and I thought it would be fun to put together some reminiscence about him from his family and friends. Turns out to be a lovely thing to do. </div>
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I've been sent lots of great photos, which I've never seen before, and received such heartwarming and funny stories it makes all the hours grumbling at my computer (editing under/over exposed, scratched and oddly focused old photos) well worth it.</div>
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Dad always signs off <i>All the Best</i> so it seems an apt title for a book about him . . . </div>
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42 <a href="http://www.open-studios.org.uk/index.php" target="_blank">Open Studios</a> artists over 5 months are taking part in a sketchbook exchange project, designed to push us creatively and to stimulate new work, which will be exhibited in May 2015.</div>
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The aim is to develop how we explore themes that interest us as individuals and as artists and how we can seek contribution on our ideas from other artists.</div>
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Monday I collected my 5th sketchbook, the theme: Human Impact. I'll have to exercise caution with this one, I do have a tendency to write in my sketchbooks and with this subject matter . . . well lets just say there are a lot of statistics out there in google-land.</div>
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Book 2: Nature, Landscape Trees</div>
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For this sketchbook I took myself off to my favourite hedgerow, sat down and drew what was in front of me . . . luckily for me this is part of my ongoing practice, and will inform a new series of linocuts.</div>
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Book 3: Happiness<br />
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This sketchbook was in my possession over Christmas, which I think influenced my choice of image. I allowed the subject to indulge my love of bright, hot colours, and of course teacups!<br />
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It's funny, but initially I struggled with the concept . . . then just allowed myself to go with the flow (no preconceived ideas) and made images that are just not like my usual work . . . maybe I should challenge myself more often and work without an end-point, just see what happens?<br />
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Book 4: Nature<br />
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A sketchbook that returned me to more familiar subjects and once again I found myself outside, walking the local hedgerows and field margins for images.<br />
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Book5: Water<br />
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Water - a great reason to stride out along the sea wall at West Mersea with snow falling and to draw the strood channel<br />
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A selection of various artists sketchbooks from the exchange . . . what a great variety of work is emerging.</div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">I've just retrieved the single copy I made and looking at it now, I've decided it is a good idea to put this into production for <a href="http://www.arnolfini.org.uk/whatson/babe-2015-bristol-artists-book-event" target="_blank">BABE 2015: Bristol Artists Book Event</a> at the <a href="http://www.arnolfini.org.uk/" target="_blank">Arnolfini</a> </span></span></div>
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Where did the month go . . . when I arranged Mr B's Christmas present (a day course in making sourdough bread with <span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(4, 46, 238); color: #551a8b;"><a href="http://www.sourdough.co.uk/vanessa-kimbell-2/" target="_blank">Vanessa Kimbell</a></span>) it seemed so far ahead, and now suddenly it's upon us!</div>
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Friday 28 January dawned sharp and clear for our drive up to Northamptonshire, and <a href="http://www.sourdough.co.uk/" target="_blank"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(4, 46, 238); color: #551a8b;">The Sourdough School</span></a>. Of course, the best thing about arranging this course is that I can include myself!</div>
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I'm a somewhat erratic bread maker, with unpredictable results, mostly good, but occasionally not so good. Last Friday taught me that that is mainly down to over-proving . . . <span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">Vanessa's classes, although relaxed and informal, are clear on why certain principles need to be adhered to. However, she also shows how 'recoverable' errors are, and just how forgiving the process of making sourdough is . . . and, we get to return home with our own sourdough starter. No excuses!!</span></div>
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Clearing up at the end of the day. Bread proving in well dusted, cloth lined, wooden proving baskets from <span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(4, 46, 238); color: #551a8b;"><a href="http://bakerybits.co.uk/bakery-equipment/proving-baskets-and-cloths/1200g-pani-pousse-basket-diameter-27cm.html">Bakery Bits</a>.</span></div>
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Froxfield is a small village, with a preponderance of visual artists. Over the years four of us have come together to hold a winter exhibition, really, a very good excuse for a big party on a Saturday night!</div>
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My phone snaps just aren't able to communicate how good it looked, but as the screens are over six foot high, the visitors eye-line wasn't cluttered with all the background visible in the photos . . .</div>
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Last minute titivations and ready for our visitors . . .</div>
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A very Big Thank You to all our visitors, especially those who came out on a cold Saturday evening and made it such a good party.</div>
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I sold out of this print (only made in an edition of 4) so I was a happy bunny.</div>
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Mavina Baker @ Teacup Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03402586009215614335noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6286090366839523419.post-6345825076332893072014-11-05T19:13:00.002+00:002014-11-06T10:37:54.526+00:00Cover to Cover - a sketchbook projectA group of open studio artists met up on the 3rd November for the launch of Cover to Cover 2015 and to collect our sketchbooks. Co-ordinated and organised by <a href="http://www.isacarmona-art.com/" target="_blank">Isabel Carmona-Andreu</a> Cover to Cover is a sketchbook project for West Berkshire and North Hampshire Open Studios 2015.<br />
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It's a sketchbook exchange project that is designed to help us to push our creativity - the aim is to develop how we explore themes that interest us as individuals, and as artists, and how we can seek contribution to our ideas from other artists.<br />
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We were allocated a group (maximum of 8) and met our fellow members. Each of us received a sketchbook containing our details and our chosen theme. Then we work on that theme (over the the next three weeks) before exchanging it with a pre-assigned group member for them to carry on working to our subject. Choice of media up to individual artists, but must work to the theme of the sketchbook.<br />
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I had decided upon a Hedgerow Hodge-podge. A sketchbook for a seasonal exploration of the plants found in the hedgerow and field margins on the Wiltshire/Berkshire borders, as I'd like to carry on with the ideas developing in my seasonal sketchbooks.<br />
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Early summer sketchbooks . . .<br />
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Sketching in the summer months is one of my favourite things, as it allows me to wander off . . . and spend quiet time looking and listening.</div>
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I'm really interested to see how others interpret this subject matter.Mavina Baker @ Teacup Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03402586009215614335noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6286090366839523419.post-33851775849143726022014-10-21T16:28:00.002+01:002014-10-21T16:34:16.912+01:00New Post on Teacup Press<div style="text-align: center;">
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A car bomb was exploded on <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutanabbi_Street" target="_blank">al-Mutanabbi</a> Street in Baghdad, on 5th March 2007. To date there have been three artist made responses to this action: 130 <a href="http://www.library.fau.edu/depts/spc/JaffeCenter/collection/al-mutanabbi/" target="_blank">broadsides</a> by letterpress artists, 260 <a href="http://www.al-mutanabbistreetstartshere-boston.com/artist-books.html" target="_blank">artist books</a>, and 125 <a href="http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/BeauBeausoleil" target="_blank">writers and poets</a> have contributed to the anthology al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here. The project as a whole includes participants from 25 countries. </div>
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The latest response, <a href="http://www.al-mutanabbistreetstartshere-boston.com/printmaking-project.html" target="_blank">Absence and Presence</a> is a printmaking project. Printmaking makes an impression, the mirror image from the plate and just as the bombing of Al Mutanabbi Street is reflected in the work produced by letterpress and book artists, writers and poets, now printmakers will be witness to this event. </div>
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<b>“Absence and Presence: A Printmaking Response to the bombing of Al-Mutanabbi Street”</b> is co-ordinated in the UK by <a href="http://www.catherinecartwright.co.uk/project/al-mutanabbi-street-coalition/" target="_blank">Catherine Cartwright</a> </div>
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It's a privilege to be invited to be a part of a global coalition of artists, poets and writers, and I've taken time reflecting on what my response would be.</div>
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In the end, for me, it all comes down to one thing, to live a life with freedom from fear. Simple things such as a visit to the market, or the library without the fear of violence . . . reliable clean running water . . . mutual respect and trust . . .</div>
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Al Mutanabbi Street is a street of booksellers and as such I started with words. Powerful things, words. Evidenced, throughout the ages, by the burning of books and the persecution of poets and writers. </div>
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To reflect and respond to the bombing of the bookseller’s quarter in Baghdad I wanted to create a print that required careful examination. All that is absent is hard to read, because all that is absent is hard to find in Baghdad . . . all that is present is easy to see, because we can see it all too clearly . . . all that is present is linked and therefore those words too are linked . . . all that is absent is fractured, therefore, yes you've got it . . .</div>
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To be part of a global coalition that states that wherever people talk freely and creativity breaths, that's where Al Mutanabbi Street starts, has made me conscious that wherever people feel they have deeply ingrained and often historical grievances (Ireland, Scotland, Wales also?) we must all take time to listen to each other because our freedoms are hard won and too easily lost. Writing this I realise that I've missed out one very important word in my print, empathy. </div>
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Empathy with people we feel fundamentally opposed to? Hard. But I suspect that until all parties try this nothing much will change.</div>
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The text I've included on my print comes from Aung San Suu Kyi who succinctly sums up the importance of living in freedom from fear.</div>
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<i>“Within a system which denies the existence of basic human rights, fear tends to be the order of the day. Fear of imprisonment, fear of torture, fear of death, fear of losing friends, family, property or means of livelihood, fear of poverty, fear of isolation, fear of failure. </i></div>
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<i>It is not easy for a people conditioned by fear under the iron rule of the principle that, might is right, to free themselves from the enervating miasma of fear. Yet even under the most crushing state machinery courage rises up again and again, for fear is not the natural state of civilized man.”</i> </div>
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Arriving in Ireland on a sunny afternoon is the perfect introduction to the Emerald Isle, and where better to celebrate the start of a holiday than a traditional pub.</div>
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Mr B and I came over with friends for the Galway Arts Festival, staying down in Salthill which is the seaside area of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galway" target="_blank">Galway City</a> - we were so lucky with our apartment view . . .</div>
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. . . and next day just along the prom, a hardy bunch at the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ns_b0TpMlMc" target="_blank">diving boards</a>.</div>
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Approaching the city from Claddagh and looking at the houses on the Long Walk</div>
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Plaques are placed (seemingly) randomly around the town, much to my delight . . .</div>
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brilliantly decorated building next to <a href="http://galwaycity.galway-ireland.ie/spanish-arch.htm" target="_blank">Spanish Arch</a>,</div>
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and skilfully laid cobbles creating fan shaped patterns.</div>
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Sitting down for a welcome coffee and . . . well . . . usually I photograph flowers, landscape, exhibitions, almost anything without a human being in sight, but as you can see this fellow is way, way too gorgeous to miss.</div>
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Like any arts festival there is a lot going on in the street . . .</div>
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And this street includes the <a href="http://redballproject.com/cities/galway/" target="_blank">RedBall Project</a>, artist Kurt Perschke's sculptural installation. I was immediately drawn to it when spied down an alleyway. It soon drew itself a little crowd, all of us of politely allowing each other a photo opportunity without anyone else in view!</div>
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If I find myself in Galway City again (and that would be a good thing) looking for a bite to eat, I'll definitely pop back to <a href="http://www.cavarestaurant.ie/" target="_blank">Cava Bodega</a>, for the best tapas in town.</div>
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Taking a day out of town in our search for <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Burren" target="_blank">The Burren</a> we took a little detour to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thoor_Ballylee" target="_blank">Yeats Tower</a>. Sadly it was closed, </div>
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with no information other than the plaque on the wall and a pretty rose climbing the cottage wall.</div>
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Skirting The Burren along the R460 we spotted <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilmacduagh_monastery" target="_blank">Kilmacduagh</a> tower. </div>
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The round tower was built as a refuge for the monks who lived here in the 12th century, to keep them safe from marauding Norsemen. It's the most conspicuous building on the site, and lacking any deep foundations it leans two feet out of perpendicular</div>
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The impermanence of things . . .</div>
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A long morning driving,</div>
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and this is as close as we came to The Burren's rocky landscape!</div>
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So, suitably refreshed we headed back to the festival and Star of the Sea, playing at the <a href="http://moonfishtheatre.com/" target="_blank">Moonfish Theatre</a>. </div>
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We'd bought tickets with a little trepidation, but it turned out to be a totally enthralling performance. A clever adaptation of Joseph O'Connor's novel, both in the Irish and English language and completely accessible to a non Irish speaker (like me). </div>
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We also saw <a href="http://ballyturk.com/" target="_blank">Ballyturk</a> (apparently the hottest tickets in the festival) combining physical comedy, whilst repeatedly ruminating upon the brevity of our earthly existence. </div>
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Two unnamed men in a room, Cillian Murphy and Mikel Murfi (excellent both) speculating about, and going through the motions of, their lives was mildly interesting. </div>
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However, the work comes alive about 40 minutes in with the arrival of Stephen Rea as a rakish, cigarette-smoking god/death like figure (again unnamed) He speaks movingly and poetically, the work acquiring a fresh lyrical richness and from then on I was hooked. Poignant and beautiful, see it if you can when it come to the UK.</div>
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The big surprise of the <a href="http://galwayfringe.ie/events/the-mute-quire/" target="_blank">festival</a> (for me) was the <a href="http://fratellanzatheater.org/the-mute-quire/" target="_blank">Mute Quire</a>, played as part of the fringe at the Columbian Hall. We only found it by chance, being handed a flier at our favourite coffee place, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/TheSecretGardenGalway" target="_blank">The Secret Garden</a>.</div>
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The Mute Quire, the clue is in the name (Quire - four sheets of paper or parchment folded to form eight leaves, as in medieval manuscripts) is a fictionalised <i>telling</i> of the printing of Shakespeare’s first folio. Kinetic and highly entertaining. </div>
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<a href="http://www.uproothootenanny.com/" target="_blank">Uproot Hootenanny</a> at the Roisin Dubh playing the most entertaining and distinctive brand of folk, rock, roots, and bluegrass - and - the fastest fiddle player ever!</div>
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When packing in plays, exhibitions and bands it's good to take little time away from the bright lights of the city . . . picnicking in the mist and looking out over beautiful Loch Corrib recharges our batteries.</div>
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Tucked around the headland we found this fantastic place . . . no one around to ask about it.</div>
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Back up from the loch we found some off-road paths</div>
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<a href="http://www.patrickoreilly.ie/index.php?/collections/" target="_blank">Patrick O'Reilly</a>'s exhibition, Prelude, at the middle pier was intriguing. </div>
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Best known in Ireland for his large bear sculptures, this exhibition didn't appear to have a focus as such, and I wish I'd been at the gallery for the artist's talk to get his view of what the work was about. I felt it was playful and original, but would really have liked a bit more.</div>
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The energetic and bubbly <a href="http://youtu.be/rq2YUEFELLc" target="_blank">Imelda May</a></div>
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<a href="http://www.johnkindness.co.uk/" target="_blank">John Kindness's</a> exhibition, Odysseus, <a href="http://www.giaf.ie/events/johnkindness" target="_blank">Absolut Festival Gallery</a>. Sailor torso.</div>
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Page from one of the sketchbooks on view - precise expression of detail . . .</div>
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Friends and acquaintances all said, "You can't go to Galway without visiting Moran's"</div>
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a very happy bunny, having tried out the garlic butter crabs claws and Guinness!</div>
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The hedgerows and verges are overrun with wild flowers, unfortunately more than I see at home in Wiltshire's road sides.</div>
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Cheerful bright yellow flower heads of Cat's-ear,</div>
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I'm guessing that gardeners would rather have these scabious . . . a member of the teasel family no less.</div>
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Paths lined with Greater knapweed . . .</div>
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Tufted vetch</div>
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. . . I don't know what this is, (a member of the mignonette family perhaps) but there was a lot of it about.</div>
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Another spot for a picnic, this time <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mullaghmore,_County_Sligo" target="_blank">Mullaghmore</a>.</div>
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A Sunday in July and hardly anyone in sight, it is said that Mullaghmore is one of the best big wave surfing locations in the world. With waves up to 15 metres (49 ft) high off Mullaghmore Head on 8 March 2012. </div>
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Walking out to the plane for home and yet again we have the more typical Irish sky . . . I know it's hard to believe, but the sun did shine and we did get sunburnt in Galway!</div>
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Camping! I haven't been camping in years . . . but it seemed like a good idea when it was suggested that Mr B and I join my brother and his missus on a short trip to the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wye_Valley" target="_blank">Wye Valley.</a> I have long wanted to visit <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symonds_Yat" target="_blank">Symonds Yat Rock</a>, up for adventure, Mr B agreed the dates and bags were duly packed.</div>
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Dinner was booked on our first evening at the <a href="http://saracensheadinn.co.uk/eat/menus" target="_blank">Saracens Head</a> - what we hadn't realised though, was that it requires a hand pulled ferry to get us to our table! </div>
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Morning, walking down through the woods to the Wye.</div>
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There is a small suspension footbridge over the Wye near Symonds Yat East, narrow and very bouncy - first built by the forestry commission in 1957. </div>
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Naturally, you feel the urge to walk with a bit of a bounce in your step, but it does feel a little flimsy and with a weathered sign requesting no more than 6 people cross at one time we behaved ourselves!</div>
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A steep footpath leads from the village (where the Saracens Head is) up to Symonds Yat Rock.</div>
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Our campsite is on top of the hill in the middle of this scene.</div>
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The views are well worth the walk up . . .</div>
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Enjoying a little rest before we trot back down the hillside.</div>
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It is possible to trace human habitation in the area back to about 12,000 years ago. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Arthur's_Cave" target="_blank">King Arthurs</a> cave on the Great Doward (very close to the campsite) is a site of archaeological interest, both hyena and Sabre-toothed tiger bones have been uncovered here.</div>
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Returning over the Wye after supper for a moonlit stroll back up to our campsite . . . magic.</div>
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A post breakfast relax prior to packing up, and both puppy dogs wait patiently to be taken for a walk before getting back in the car for the long journey home.</div>
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We've been away for an awful lot of this year, and the garden has been left mostly to it's own devices. </div>
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But, even with such benign neglect I am rewarded with a harvest for the grey, wet months that will come. I sit picking black currants, which are hidden among the borage and late forget-me-nots, and contemplate the marjoram that is romping about the vegetable beds, and the emergent rosebay willowherb and feel happy because I can hear so many bees working the flowers.</div>
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I know that nothing will be cleared as today I'm off again, this time to go camping near Symonds Yat and I can't wait as I love that part of the country.</div>
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I can allow myself these jaunts because plants will get on with it whether I'm around to weed and water or not . . . being away for part of April and May I thought I had a bit of a disaster on my hands, in as much as I hadn't planted the spuds until 6th June, by the 25th June they looked promising . . .</div>
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and now in early July they look much as I would have expected had I planted them in mid April. The power of plants eh!</div>
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Friday morning and just time to plant some potatoes before we shoot up to Town to see the Matisse exhibition at <a href="http://www.tate.org.uk/" target="_blank">Tate Modern</a> </div>
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Getting down to ground level and the plants that I miss on my trot up the garden path to the Shed are revealed - I had no idea that the wild strawberries had ripened . . . </div>
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Feeling slightly pleased with myself . . . even though a touch late, but I noticed last year after our cold spell and very late start in the garden, that almost everything 'caught up' and nothing was wasted . . . so why not plant now?</div>
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I do have a <i>control</i> plant, this bed obviously (now) wasn't totally cleared and shows how far the potatoes would probably be if I'd planted at the recommended time.</div>
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Looking back over the millennium bridge, doesn't it look fab? and the graffitied chewing gum I saw in March is still in situ.</div>
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<i>Amphitrite 1947</i>, is a series of small, gouache painted, sheets of paper with cut-outs layered over. Pin holes showing how each shape has been positioned and re-positioned. (Apologies for my poor photo from the book that accompanies the exhibition) </div>
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The fact Matisse made combinations and re-combinations suggests to me an intuitive approach, coupled with a painstaking and arduous process.</div>
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But it gives rise to such a sense of vitality in his work . . . which is difficult to translate through these photos, so if you think you may be interested at all, do not miss it!</div>
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<i>Women and Monkeys, 1952,</i></div>
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A particular favourite of mine, <i>The Dragon, 1943-4</i>, the colours sing. </div>
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It doesn't translate into a different medium though. On the wall in the gallery it has 'life' the paper cut-outs convey a precarious, fragile existence . . . which drains away in the photograph.</div>
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<i>The Heart, 1943,</i> from the illustrated book, Jazz </div>
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<i>The Knife Thrower, 1943-4,</i> from the illustrated book, Jazz</div>
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<i>Christmas Eve, 1952,</i> maquette for a stained glass window.</div>
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A visit to London is a great excuse to catch up with our youngest, so we stroll across to meet in Leicester Square. And while waiting, I take time to notice buildings I would usually just rush by in a hurry to be 'somewhere'.</div>
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Finishing off a fabulous afternoon with jasmine tea at the <a href="http://caytresoho.co.uk/" target="_blank">Cay Tre</a> in Soho.</div>
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Mavina Baker @ Teacup Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03402586009215614335noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6286090366839523419.post-10858218944765926982014-03-29T17:23:00.000+00:002014-03-29T17:26:40.733+00:00Cover to Cover a sketchbook projectAs a participant in <a href="http://covertocover-sketches.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/cover-to-cover-launch.html" target="_blank">Cover to Cover</a> I spent Monday last at <a href="http://www.wiltonwindmill.co.uk/" target="_blank">Winton Windmill</a>, sketching.<br />
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A good reason to leave The Shed on a beautiful bright, but cold, day.<br />
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Cover to Cover is an Open Studios project that will explore the creativity and inspiration of artists taking part in Newbury Open Studios 2014. Painters, jewellers, textile artists, potters, sculptors, video or cake artists come together and show how work develops from our sketch books or doodles into a finished piece.<br />
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Going up stairs. Narrow and very steep, like a ships ladder. Working in this environment must have had its interesting moments . . .</div>
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As someone sketches the view I sketch the window.</div>
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information for visitors (of course) but it creates a <i>shadow</i> narrative of the space, and it's enabled me to build various scenarios for book works.</div>
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built . . . 1821</div>
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number of years in operation . . . approx. 100</div>
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number of years unused and derelict . . . approx. 50</div>
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start of renovations . . . 1971</div>
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first milling after renovations . . . 1976</div>
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Last week was spent cutting a selection of 'cups'.</div>
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In looking for 50's, 60's and 70's pattern and colour schemes, I've acquired one or two new specimens to draw from. This little beauty from the local 'junk' shop, a steal at £2.50 per cup and saucer.</div>
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Also, photographing likely looking subjects. This 70's vision in mustard was on the table at the <a href="http://richardjefferiessociety.co.uk/RJmuseum.html" target="_blank">Richard Jefferies House & Museum</a>, Coate Water when I attended a <a href="http://workshopswithcarrie.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">BlueGate Poetry</a> workshop with <a href="http://carrieetter.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">Carrie Etter</a></div>
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Left with little parcels of ink at the end of a printmaking session.</div>
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Mavina Baker @ Teacup Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03402586009215614335noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6286090366839523419.post-82279685883707055202014-03-14T21:00:00.001+00:002014-03-14T21:13:10.820+00:00Rowboat<br />
One of the blogs that I love to follow is <a href="http://barleybooks.wordpress.com/2014/03/14/early-morning-fog/" target="_blank">barleybooks</a> and I have to thank Ama for this particular posting, as it inspired me to try out the same format.<br />
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On a weekday I usually walk alone with my dog, but just recently Mr B has accompanied Rufus and me and today, like Ama, I took my cue from Dave Bonta's <a href="http://www.vianegativa.us/series/toward-noon-3verses/" target="_blank">3verses</a> to write about it.<br />
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I'm flirting around your edges<br />
not quite daring to recognise,<br />
this uncharted you.<br />
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We talk of security,<br />
of course, there are no guarantees<br />
but let's trust to the universe.<br />
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Sitting in a little rowboat,<br />
with knotted hankies on our heads,<br />
planning where to go.<br />
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- Posted using BlogPress from my iPadMavina Baker @ Teacup Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03402586009215614335noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6286090366839523419.post-61854221568762395872014-03-08T14:35:00.001+00:002014-03-08T14:35:39.705+00:00Paul Klee at Tate Modern<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Crossing the Millennium bridge to get to the Tate is always a joy, great views of the river, St Paul's and Tate Modern. </div>
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On the bridge these little pieces caught my eye. . . everyone was looking out for them.</div>
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Graffiti art in miniature! </div>
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. . . the artist at work.<br />
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He's actually painting onto chewing gum and therefore not painting the bridge - neat way to go - and I'd say definitely not vandalism but an improvement.</div>
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Not the most prepossessing of entrances but <a href="http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/exhibition/ey-exhibition-paul-klee-making-visible" target="_blank">Tate Modern</a> is a fantastic space for exhibitions, we're here to see the Klee. </div>
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It's a comprehensive exhibition, and as well as the usual suspects there is a large selection of less familiar works - it's just tremendous and I'd highly recommend a visit, but there isn't long. Sunday 9th March is the last day.</div>
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Lyrical mark making and deftness of touch . . . my most favourite piece in the show. </div>
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. . . lunch (ah-hem not exactly healthy eating)</div>
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Back home and perusing my stash of goodies, the compulsory book and postcards.</div>
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I'm more familiar with it as a mono-print process and one I'm pursuing just now for my Storm in a Teacup series.<br />
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Initial stages, and next week I'll work further into these two.<br />
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Not the first time I've allowed myself to be influenced by Klee's work.</div>
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I made a series of water colour mono-prints using Paul Klee's The Goldfish, as my reference source in the early 90's</div>
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The view from The Shed window reminds me that daylight is running out . . . </div>
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I've spent the day working on a small painting (I prefer daylight when working in mixed media as I find it difficult to judge colour in electric light) and anyway it is time now to put this to one side and leave it to brew for a day or two while I think about the next stage . . .</div>
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Stages it's progressed through today</div>
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Meanwhile, ideas for print are developing in my sketchbook. I like to keep these images as simple as possible, I don't want the image to be too 'fixed', I'd rather work out the detail when cutting my block.</div>
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I recently joined <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/stroudartistsbooks/" target="_blank">Stroud Artists' Books</a> at Stroud Valley Arts, a space for artists to meet up monthly and share their ideas for books and practice. </div>
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Each month there is a theme, and the theme for February was the Lens. </div>
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To see more of this post please go to my book blog <a href="http://teacuppress.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">Teacup Press</a></div>
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