Winter exhibition

Some weeks ago I fell off a stile walking the Dorset countryside, and various parts of me complained and the shoulder seized up altogether and has been very painful. The good news is that the Chiropractor is getting me mobile again slowly, and I am beginning to believe that I may still work at the art again.. one day.

With a lot of help from husband and fellow exhibitors the attached image shows that I did manage to get my part of the exhibition up. As I could not mount, frame etc I have added my chinese brushwork paintings to the prints as these were all ready from a previous show. Now all we need is to sell something!

Exhibition

I have updated my wesite and added some more work: http://www.jenniferscabin.co.uk at the moment I am using this space as a window of the work.

For any local readers, I have joined up with four other Dorchester artists to put on a selling exhibition of Artist made pictures, cards and presents from upstairs in the Poundbury Garden Centre, Poundbury, Dorchester from Wednesday November 17th until Monday lunchtime 22 November 2010.

West Bay again

This is the largest white line print I have attempted, approx 22inches by 33inches. Looking at another aspect of West Bay in Dorset UK. This shows part of the beach, cliffs and the boat going out to sea from the harbour. I have had great fun doing it.

West Bay

Have been having another go at white-line printmaking. This is a small port on the Dorset Coast called West Bay. There is still a fishing fleet there, and I hope to be creating more images from the area.

Am finding it all hard going at the moment, probably the usual autumn blues as I wonder why I am not living in a place with no winter. The printmaking challenge helps to keep me going. Hope all well out there!

Autumn efforts

Had a stand at an arts & crafts show at the George Albert Hotel, very quiet but as always interesting to have people's comments. Felt a bit down afterwards as sales were low even though I had slashed the prices.

So back to the studio. This is a white line print Mont St. Victoire. I find it impossible to make consecutive prints identical using the white line technique,as one is basically painting them on to the wood, with varying results. I have currently started numbering them as A/P1 + date A/P2+date etc. Does anyone have some better ideas?

Back to the studio

Finally have done some work in the studio. Up against deadlines as the grandchildren are back at the end of this week. Finally had a go at whiteline in preparation for a Xmas card. A local church. The angelic minstrals are stone carvings inside the same building, I thought they looked rather fun all playing away together instead of being stuck up on separate pillars as they are in reality.

White line

Have been to France for the last few weeks, and found some interesting ideas. In Avignon in a small collection, found some work by Gleizes and white line prints by Derain.

Will post later with more news. If anyone is in London, the British Museum Print Room has a stunning free exhibition of Chinese prints from the earliest Diamond sutra to contemporary. A must see if you can.