Finding The Now

Visual diary pages with multiple layers of acrylics, gesso, oil pastels and collage. Emerging figures outlined. Free flow gel pen lettering added.

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  These pages are made using layers of acrylics, collage papers, pens and oil pastels and are inspired by the work of Journal Artista and Jesse Reno I drew around the shapes that appeared and then added detail and a few words. I like the fact that images form in a seemingly magical way from [...]

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Learning to love the mud in the River Ore, Suffolk, whilst storm bound. Mixed media, layered pages. One day the rain was so hard it made a million pearls jump out of the water.  

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Visual diary pages. Inspired by sunlight, summer and my granddaughter’s third birthday. Mixed media: acrylics, glazing medium, gesso, ink, oil pastels, collage, homemade stamp, fly swatter (as stencil and stamp)

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I created this card using old sheet music, ink, oil pastel and photocopied visual diary pages. I made sketches of Thames Barges whilst out on the water, watching the Medway Barge Match recently, and copied a couple of  these onto the back of the photocopies, then cut out the silhouettes. I like the faded, distressed [...]

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