Snow days:

'New' books

I've re-made two books. The Ornithologist was my first ever book, a lino print 'beak book' - the original printed painstakingly by hand and left to dry on the kitchen floor. Now I have a press at the studio, and I've re-jigged it as a concertina with hard covers, in an edition of 25.

'Sometimes I Dance Around the House on my Own' was made from a series of drawings based on photographs that I took using Photo Booth on my laptop in late 2008. I made about ten copies of the original which was printed as single sheets, Japanese bound. I was always rather fond of it, but it was quite a flimsy book, and for ages I've meant to make a studier version. This is still a work in progress, as I haven't finished the belly bands yet, but I've printed it as a concertina, and hand-finished the cloth covers. I've a feeling this will be an edition of 10, and I'll make a half-sized version, as this unfolds to 160cm long.

I drew some feathers

Bird Women photos

White Night- Brighton

I never knew how much fun soldering would be- we made interactive LED badges at the Skiff workshop; projected my 'pigeon eating cat' animation on the wall of the library, and took part in 'enlightenment' life drawing in the dark. Plus plenty of exhibitions, day of the dead processions and impromptu opera from a theatre window...

PORTRAIT Exhibition, Conquest Hospital

This exhibition is up for a couple more weeks, until 14th November. Open daily, 9.30am- 5.30pm. (Main entrance, turn right). I'm showing a number of new paintings, in junk shop frames.

Big Draw at Hastings Museum

An event I ran last weekend at the Museum last weekend to tie-in with the Hastings Rarities Affair exhibition. Children made or decorated birds to fill the tree I'd painted on the window.