RETURN TO WORK

I have not blogged for ages I know and I must apologise but this year hasn't been great for me so far. For those of you who don't follow my Instagram or Facebook pages, the first three months of this year saw the very sad decline in my Dads health leading to his death in March and the three months since have been very hard. My Dad was wonderful, my greatest supporter as an artist , always encouraging and my biggest fan. He was always the same and had encouraged me to follow my passion all through my formative years, he never once doubted I would become a professional artist even when I did ( and some times still do!!). Due to these circumstances I have had several months of not being very productive and after his death I found the solitude of the studio almost unbearable - too much time and quiet to think about my grief. I am pleased to say that I have been back at work now for a few weeks and am being rather productive. 

I have been working on my knitted histology slides, I've been adding beaded nuclei and embroidering cell walls on each panel as you can see above. Almost five of the eight panels are complete.

Another way of feeling better has been spending time in the garden, here are some photos of the joys there; 

MEDICAL ART AND SCHOOL WORK

Since my last post I have been working on further pieces for my MedImmune residency and on teaching year 7 and 8's one afternoon a week.

These are pieces I am working on with Eppindorfs , based on lipids and DNA....





I have also been working on the knitted panels that I want to look like histology slides, there is still a lot of work to do on them but the idea is growing....

I may have mentioned before that I was working on a paper cut as gift for Christmas and so I didn't post any images in case the recipient saw it so here it is..

As for the project I am working on with the students .....

 We looked at the work of Kandinsky, Klee and Calder and then I asked them to make a relief like I have done in my sketchbook photos above. Below are a few examples of their work...

 

Next we're going to make gargoyle type faces!!!