Christmas Day- Crabbes, ducks, swans and geese

Cat + snow + icicles + a big mess

Eric drawings for TIG exhibition

TIG (The Illustration Group) Christmas offering at McCarron's of Mercatoria- 68 Norman Road, St Leonards - Sarah Evans, Ed Boxall, Rachel Heavens, Janey Marriner, Celestina Froude and I.

Opening from 5pm Sunday 6th December- free drinks and nibbles.

The exhibition continues through December and into January (Tues- Sat).

Snow Day's End

Forthcoming joint exhibition with Ed Boxall- Eat@ 12 Claremont, Hastings Town Centre (next door to the library).

Ed exhibits a series of new prints for children's bedrooms and a selection of lino prints based on a summer of camping.

Lorna is showing new drawings and prints based on found photographs, accidental collections and ornithology.

The exhibition begins on 1st December, and runs throughout the month.

Bird Woman Book

I've just finished this one-off hand-drawn book, with ceramic bird skulls, for an exhibition at Kaleid Editions, Shoreditch.

The Grand Plasto-Baader-Books 2-24 December 2009
Private View: Tuesday 1st December, 6-9pm
The exhibition will bring to life ‘the aftermath of an accident between a trolley car and a newspaper kiosk’, recalling Maud Lavin’s description of Johannes Baader’s original exhibition Das Grosse Plasto-Dio-Dada-Drama.
Drawing inspiration from Baader’s original architectural feat, fifty pieces have been selected for their originality and conceptual response to the traditional book form.

KALEID editions
artists who do books

Unit 2, 23-25 Redchurch St,
Shoreditch, London. E2 7DJ
www.kaleideditions.com
Wednesday to Saturday, 12-7pm
Late night Thursdays and informal Sundays
Telephone: 44 (0)7870 173 524

Bird tree Christmas cards

I've just had these printed, from a recent drawing I made and I'll be selling locally, and shortly via my new Etsy site. (A5 and A6 size).

Today's pigeon drawing

Handmade & Bound/ WOOD

Christina & I (where was Ed?) at Handmade & Bound, St Aloysius, Euston. (Photo: Anne Sorensen).

.... and my three paintings at the WOOD exhibition, last week- at Nomad, Hastings town centre.

This week...

The former Halifax building (now known as Nomad Creative Space) in Hastings town centre is fully up and running, the current exhibition 'WOOD' opened this evening, and runs until Sunday (1st November). Featured artists/ makers: Hastings & Bexhill Recycling Project/ Jim Roseveare/ Scott Robertson/ Patrick Burton/ Lorna Crabbe/ Barry Dodgson/ East London Printmakers & Friends. I've included three small portraits on wood.

HANDMADE AND BOUND is this Sunday 1st November, 12-6pm at St Aloysius Hall, Euston (www.handmadeandbound.co.uk). I'm sharing with Ed Boxall & Christina Borsi. I've a new bird woman book in production... (images above).

OMIYAGE exhibition- Crabbe Palace- Sept/ Oct '09

OMIYAGE exhibition booklet (exhibition closes Sunday)

The closing event is this Sunday (18th October) from 6pm- last chance to catch it, before the work is carefully packed up and sent back to Japan. I'll post more photos of the exhibition on here, soon.

Eric settles down and prepares for winter

Top five most prententious photos of me taken at art school. There are others, just too humiliating to put up here.

No. 1- Art Foundation course, Bath, 1996. That was my boyfriend, Clive, dead on the floor behind me.

No.2- Art Foundation again, 1997. God, I loved that tree.

No.3- This is probably the most pretentious, because, clearly, I can't play the guitar. This was my room on Magdelene Road, Oxford, 1999.

No.4- Queer Bop, Laura's halls at Wadham College Oxford, 1996.

No.5- From a series of polaroids of me dressed up in odd locations all over Bath, taken by Clive, 1997.


Didn't realise the quality is so bad- I'll scan properly at some point, when I mend my scanner.

Coming up...

I've been sorting out my study, finding all kinds of odds and ends, but my next post will be the top 5 pretentious photos taken of me, while at art school. It's going to be hard narrowing it down..

The Office, and other things...

So, Coastal Currents has finished for 2009, though some of the outdoor projects will stay up for Hastings Week, which starts this weekend. Also, we have now secured the former Halifax building (next to Jempsons) which has been taken on temporarily as a project and events space, and is housing several artists, collectives and creative businesses.

Creative Coast is moving it's HQ to a small office there (see image above!) where we'll be based for the next couple of months. The hope is that once we have to move on, we can trot over to the former House of Hastings, Queens Road. So, we're applying for a small grant to help us get things running, and we're looking to build up the workshops/ events/ projects we started as part of this year's festival. We're also putting in a bid to manage the festival for the next two years... (I know?!) Watch this space...

Other things coming up....

I'm taking part in Handmade & Bound artists' book fair - 1st November, St Aloysius Hall, Euston (www.handmadeandbound.co.uk)

Ed Boxall and I have a show at Eat@Claremont, Hastings during December of lino and drawings.

I'm taking part in the grand Plasto-Baader-Books (2-24th December), a 'cavernous assemblage of unique artists' books selected for their originality and conceptual response to the book form'. It'll be at Kaleid Editions, Unit 2, 23-25 Redchurch Street, London, E2 7DJ

And TIG (The Illustration Group) are having an exhibition at Christmas time, at McCarrons of Mercatoria, Norman Road, St Leonards, more details to come, and hopefully another exhibition (Beyond the Clouds) at Trinity, Tunbridge Wells at Easter.

And... if we all make it to September 2010, I'm taking part in a group show based around the Hastings Rarities Affair collection, at Hastings Museum & Art Gallery. Feathers and beaks galore.

I'm also looking for a temporary P/T job. Some of my skills/ attributes listed below:

* Highly skilled at catching, removing, and killing fleas from cats
* Competent at removing matted fur from cats (I've pioneered a new technique)
* Enthusiasm for folding jumpers
* Very polite
* Owns lots of nice dresses
* Can draw things with a reasonable likeness
* Actively likes sherry
* Can assume an air of moderate intelligence (heightened when wearing glasses)
* Very neat handwriting
* Can open an Excel document, scroll down and carefully close it again.
* Unusually good at mirror writing
* Can smooth down the corners of a case bound book cover very neatly, with or without the use of a bone folder.

Today our drummer has been awarded his PhD

Here we were, back in the hazy summer of 2000, when such a thought was highly improbable.

Crow drawing

Radio Weekend

The newest addition to the pigeon family/ pigeon rescue 2

I picked this one up from next door's doorstep, around the corner on Market Passage, thinking it was one of mine. But on closer inspection- it has too many yellow feathers at the back of it's head, and a white tip to it's beak. I think it comes from the nest in between my house & next door. I suspected there must be a nest there, as I've heard chirping when doing the washing up. Anyway, I think it's safer on my balcony than on the street downstairs, and I've left it food. And one of my squabs has returned, and is snuggled up, keeping it company. I think the father is even feeding it.

Leaving the nest...

One squab has gone, already. The other made a dash for it, flapping wildly, and unsure what to do when it landed, awkwardly, on the pub opposite. It flapped a bit more, and ended up on my doorstep, looking up at me, squeaking pathetically. I went down and it was on the windowsill of The Cutter, the poor daft thing still has some of it's yellow baby feathers. I don't think it has the strength yet, to fly properly.

Anyway, it let me pick it up happily enough, and bring it home. I carried it up the stairs past Eric, who regarded it with customary contempt. It's back in it's nest, for a little while at least. It won't be long though, I'm sure. Funny. It was exactly a month today that the first one hatched.

Delightful house guests/sitters

Not only do I receive a gourmet breakfast, flowers, and on my return a house much tidier than I left it, a very happy cat and a fridge full of food; but also lovely notes...

Emma-Jane's photoshoot