I surrender:

I surrender:To loveTo griefTo painTo joyTo darknessTo fearTo despairTo hopeTo hope To hope I surrender to being completeAs I am todayAnd as I have always been When I surrender I am no longer...

manina gelida:

Today I went perusing along Portobello Road and happened upon some interesting curiosities which I gathered up and took back to my home: An old manikin hand. The Italian man that sold it to me said...

tombstone

"Life can be compared to a piece of embroidered material of which, everyone in the first half of his time, comes to see the top side, but in the second half, the reverse side. The latter is not so...

jumbled:

I forgot to post this piece which I made recently. It will be another page in my open book. I am making them all individually then will think more about how they will be constructed together... The...

page one:

Page one of open book ... more to come...

emotional alchemy:

I am embroidering a healing narrative on to my baby dress. I want it to be a form of emotional alchemy - the idea of iron to gold, poison to medicine, wounds to healing... This will be part of my...

closed book: open book

Finally things are starting to take shape in my mind. Huzzah!The ideas thus far: Currently exploring the idea of a 'closed book' and the transformation to an 'open book'. Closed book: the broken...

a long post about where I'm not at:

currently I am here: It is not at all where I thought I wanted to be. why am I here??I must investigate.... *dons deer stalker cap* So far I have been focusing on making foundation cloths to later...

visual journal: 19.3.13

things that are hidden:

in the ether:

folds:

fold up your life into a story that fits into your pockettake it out now and then to look at itkeep it safe, keep it safe

monoprint ghosts:

I have been experimenting with monoprints today.....I'm trying to find a visual language to represent ghost memories, fragments of myself left behind...

visual journal: 1.3.13

Once upon a time lived an impossible dream waiting to be born....

visual journal:

25.2.13

visual journal:

24.2.13 anxiety burned in my belly like a white fire

visual journal:

22.2.13

little steps:

Progressing more with this.... Experimenting. What am I trying to say??? I think it is all about transformation.The rejected, grotesque and broken somehow gathered up and made beautiful again....

visual journal:

This weekend I was very lucky to receive a copy of a visual journal ebook from artist Kelly Darke. Please do check out her stitched work... I am always inspired by the different marks she makes...

ghost image:

I have been experimenting with image transfer, this time I used gel medium. I like the ghostly, worn image but not so happy with the texture of the material after...

layer, line, ink

a dolls progression:

It has taken me ageeeees to post these collages I made from the family of dolls photos... But what do they all mean? and where do they lead me? Strange fragmented dreams. The things we break, bury,...

decapitated angels:

I went to Barnes Old Cemetery this weekend; the cemetery has been abandoned for many years and is hauntingly atmospheric. Crumbling stones are covered with lush greens moss, decapitated angels...

once upon a childhood lived a family of dolls...

the day a kiwi tree in winter made marks across my sky:

a book about being broken:

... and in the back of the broken book, inside the smallest tiniest envelop, hides another book, secretly waiting to be read.And this book isn't about being broken at all...

ever so slowly, ever so quietly, it grows....

the return of PSYCHO DOLL:

did you miss me...? layers, layers, layersdecay, decay, decaybroken, broken, broken there is a story beneath...

broken:

Inspired by the work of outsider artist Michel Nedjar I made myself a poupée.I knew the act of making one would be some kind of magic. Binding up the physical.Sutures for the soul.An object of...

three dolls and an appendage: