ARTWAVE 2026 at the Con Club

 

MY DEAR QEAKLE: John Craxton and EQ NIcholson , a lifelong friendship,Rottingdean Whiteway Centre 8th August

 

The exciting exhibition is now open and I am giving an illustrated talk there next Saturday morning at the Whiteway centre just behind The Grange and gallery... do come along to the free show and ticketed talk with question and answer afterwards..its a unique opportunity to see wonderful bright and joyous show of work by a less well known woman  artist and her great friend John Craxton...its a treat,

Next Stop BABE in Bristol

 

BABE dates Friday 26th June Saturday 27th this year 
- new venue Spike Island

Free event, all welcome. 11am- 5pm each day. We hope you can come along!
Our venue is a 20-minute stroll along the harbourside from the city centre: UWE Bristol City Campus at Spike Island, 133 Cumberland Rd, Bristol BS1 6UX

I shall be sharing a stand with Peter Chasseaud - Altazimuth Press but there will be a clear demarcation line between our work!

here is a photo of my stand at the lovely ArtWorkers Guild last weekend

it was very well attended by very lovely people despite all the chaos going on in the streets

The project continues apace with new small scrapbooks and new larger size 'tarot' cards for contemplation... I still have a pile of large blocks cut but not yet printed waiting for me to complete and start on the large scrapbooks - I chose the images for the above cards and books for their suitability to work as cropped images by which I hoped to concentrate the emblem-ness more strongly. I will be working on completing the larger images from now on for completion by the time of the Oxford Fine Press Association Fair next Spring....
I will be showing the smaller ones as above next at BABE and then in my Open Studio weekends in September in Lewes ArtWave

New Events for the next few months 1926: INK PAPER PRINT, London Craft Week at the ArtWorkers Guild and LEWES Literary Society

 

I will be having a stand at this event for both days showing new projects alongside books and prints  Before then , on Tuesday April 21st I will be giving a talk about my written books at All Saints Arts Centre in LEWES for the Lewes Literary Society

More ARTWAVE information and etchings from Glyndebourne production drawings

 see also two and 3 posts down......

I have now found a cache of large colour etchings I made from drawings in the 90's watching Glyndebourne rehearsal , which is going back a bit - which I always intended to turn into some kind woodcut book, and may yet once other projects finished !!! But I have decided to relinquish them - partly as two are from the wonderful  old Midsummer Night's Dream , which I presume may be the same on being shown again in the Autumn season... 

I even made a little magic disappearing book with collagraphs and where turning the page made Bottom's head disappear and then reappear again - oh the simple joys of paper technology! - and I believe there is a copy of it in the Tate's collection, which I find very reassuring among all the cool right-on stuff they tended to collect....

anyway - here are a selection of images to tempt you to come and see, plus other old etchings and collagraphs large and small which haven't resurfaced for some long time....

The operas concerned were Peter Sellars Californian production of Magic Flute with the high priests in saffron robes, Michael Tippet's New Year - not often seen these days, and of course Midsummer's Night Dream which was so visually exciting....

See you soon I hope - it is supposed to be a good weather weekend.....

 

Graham Moss Remembering Day

I am posting up this from Instagram as I don't do it myself - -  so I hadn't heard which day was chosen but I saw him walking down the High Street this morning so he was evidently trying to tell me - 

and this is my act of remembering as his widow suggested that we the printing community all remember him today particularly - see below.

Graham published my first book about Peggy Angus when no-one else was brave enough to take it on and was a very dear friend, ripped from us in an untimely fashion and too soon...

may his generous and creative spirit live on....

please read these lovely courageous words from Helen

what a manifesto to inspire...

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Lewes ARTWAVE 2025

Do come and visit......

Come and see the progress of the new project...many more images made since May....  (see previous post)....come and see why I have turned to horror.....

See why Nabokov is looking so sad

Join in the conversation across space and time, meet Shelley and Coleridge....

                         Still plenty of old stuff too......        www.artwave.org