Spring things

Creatures from the deep

Sea mists

So grey today that the cliff tops vanished, and the sea blended into the sky.

Hastings Rarities

Some of my dressed birds and bird dolls from the Hastings Rarities Affair exhibition at Hastings Museum & Art Gallery, which has just come down.

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