ENAMEL EXPERIMENTS

I am adding 3D moths to the enamel labels I am making.
It is still all a bit hit and miss, but I am enjoying the challenge.

I particularly like the effect of this stamped and sifted red.

MOODY MOTHS

If in doubt hit the sketch book, I have been trying to find a way to include the moths into my

beetle work. I want to create a homage to the museum collections of insects, particularly the Hope Entomology Collection in the Natural History Museum, Oxford which I am going to take a closer look at later this month.

In the meantime the magazine, Cloth.Paper.Scissors has included the moth collagraph house in their readers challenge 'home sweet home' in the Nov/Dec issue. I called it a light house!! Get it?

STILL PLAYING

This set of teaspoons will be at Nature in Art, Gloucestershire in their Contemporary Craft Exhibition. www.nature-in-art.org.uk And this spoon and fork set will be at the Twenty Twenty Gallery, Much Wenlock for their Christmas show. www.twenty-twenty.co.uk

In the mean time I am still working in my sketch book.

AN INORDINATE FONDNESS OF BEETLES

Inspired by the fantastic collection of beetles in the Oxford Natural History Museum
I have been filling up the pages of my sketch book

with these incredible creatures. These drawings have been a starting point

for more enamel experiments. The beetles give me an excuse to start using some bright colours.

ENCORE ENAMEL

New Brewery Arts, Cirencester has order more moth spoons for the exhibition Only Words.
This collection has been made specifically for them.

So if you missed out on the last set it will be worth popping back to take another look at the exhibition.

The exhibition continues to the 20th November.

ONLY WORDS

The exhibition Only Words will be on until 20th November at the New Brewery Arts, Cirencester. This is a taster of some of the exhibits, but there is so much more to see.

CAW!

It was worth spending hours cutting out the background of this collagraph as it has been accepted for the RWA's autumn exhibition, starting at the end of this month, check their web sight for details, www.rwa.org.uk