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I should have been preparing for assessment but I couldn't resist doing one last etching, I think it's a good one, lots of movement

contextual notebook

In addition to my regular contextual notebook I've bought and altered a book of Nancy Speo's
work, well, it's more fun than photocopying stuff and sticking it in a a notebook

Journeys 2; Heart of Darkness

Life is a journey, up river to who knows what horrors.

Friends move on and fade out of your life

children grow up and become independent

I am starting to worry about growing old

Journeys

Looking back at my prints this term I realise they are all records of journeys I have made since Christmas. To Paris, canoeing on the Shannon, a train trip on mothers day to Cork and Lanzerotte

Je suis Charlie protests 11 Jan ,Paris

canoeing on Shannon

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Train to Cork

Old woman all alone on mothers day

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palm trees in lanzerotte

Reflections on water

The same can be said for light reflected off water

Early morning and evening light

Lately I have being trying to capture light on a landscape, mostly my garden, either early in the morning or late evening. Edward Hopper once said "Maybe I'm not very human, all I wanted to do was paint light on the side of the wall of a building" I agree with him. Toward the end of his life when asked what his art was about he said"myself" again I would agree with that.
  Conceptual art; A concept is just an idea or theme, morning light can be a concept as well as anything else

print blogEIGHTphotography

I took photos of people in my studio then drew with black acrylic ink on acetate. I used the acetates as negatives and developed them on to photogreapic paper. The tricky bit was remembering that the black would come out white and visa versa

artists I am looking at; Diana Arbus and Sophie Calle. Both look with sympathy at people to whom fate has been harsh while being honest and uncompromising in their self portraits. I have also been looking at Jerry Uelsmann ,who's montage "the small woods where I met myself"1967 has been, for many years, one of my favourite photographs