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Friday, March 12, 2021

Open Studio tomorrow and other bits

Fiona and I have an Open Studio event at our studio (Deckled Edge Press) tomorrow (Saturday 13/3 10am-4pm).

It will provide folk with the opportunity to try their hand at letterpress printing using colours including the gorgeous pink above. We will have three presses operating - folk can print with words and decorative pieces such as in the photos following.

There is a small exhibition of works and posters relating to women's issues in recognition of International Women's Day on 8/3. There will also be 10% off everything in the gallery-shop.

I did get around to completing my climate crisis poster as you can see below - we are being encouraged to accept a new world that provides us with enough and is sustainable. The poster has three layers and three colours - three printings. The proof photo shows how things can evolve.

The poster complements my poetry book that I printed recently.

Sunday, November 22, 2020

Thanks, press play etc

A very big thank-you to the heap of folk who took the time to visit us at Deckled Edge Press yesterday for our open studio. Also a very big thank you to the folk who sent messages of support via FB.

People had a bit of fun playing on a few of the presses including with a wood question mark on the galley press; and had the opportunity to see a range of our work; and also bought our work.

It was great to see familiar faces and a few new ones; and good have the chance to show the studio and workspace off to some who had not seen it.

A few photos associated with the presses and press play. Chases locked up for printing; a bit of colour; and a few of the prints.

Though we are a bit physically tired today - we are also energised by the fact that we can share art with people who get our art - we are thankful that we have such folk in our lives.

Sunday, June 14, 2020

A positive weekend - open studio and completion of a project

It is hard to believe that our DEP open stdio event has been and gone. Saturday was a great day - the weather stayed fine and we had a good crowd of people through the studio. Strangely we have no photos of the people in the studio simply because we were so busy: talking to people; sharing the space (up to 15 folk at a time); giving people a chance to try their hand at letterpress printing; and selling some bits and pieces.

Below are a couple of photos of some stuff on the walls.

A few photos related to opportunity for people to try letterpress.

Today was a misty rainy day so I got time to finish a project. Fiona suggested we might print some birthday cards that included a calendar. I had set up the chase before the open studio - today I printed cards for June 2020 through to December 2020. The idea is a person purchases the relevant month and then circles the date relevant to the friend or family member - similar to what I have done for September 21.

The project was quite structured but also labour intensive as I had to change the heading on each and move all the numbers around for each month. I was using an old calendar set and a few of the spacers were missing so Fiona suggested I use some leaf ornaments of the same size - it worked well.

We are officially both tired but also happy with our weekend achievements.

Sunday, June 15, 2014

Sharing with friends - old and new

Well another Open Studio has passed. Fiona and I always ask ourselves what these events are about - is it the promotion of our art; is it about selling; is it about profile? Well - yes it is about all those things; but it is also about sharing the art story and the art journey with people - some folk who have visited the studio before; and some new visitors including some whom just saw the Open Studio sign on the side of the road and decided to drop in.

The number of visitors was steady over the weekend - it gave us the opportunity to: spend time with people; to learn a little more about each other; and it gave us time to re-affirm that Fiona and I have a fortunate art live.

I thought I would just share a few photos of the studio and how it was set up for the weekend. There is every chance that Fiona will share many similar photos.

And at the end of the weekend we are tired but happy.

Sunday, May 25, 2014

Meditation 'bells'

Back in early January I made a suspended meditation bell from an old thick walled goblet and other bits.

This weekend I have made a series of three meditation bells or gongs from the gongs of old clocks. These rods in these gongs are tuned rods - beautiful mellow gong sounds. Each of the gongs required a slightly different assemblage approach - though in all I have used the same thick recycled brass plate base cut to the same rectangular size. The strikers for ringing the 'bells' are made from rods out of mini pump push rods.

There is a four rod bell-gong - with a downward angle.

A three rod bell-gong (was 5 rods but two were damagd) on a single metal rod post.

And a two rod bell-gong - I made a special brass bracket to hold the wrought iron base of this bell-gong.

In my mind all these bell-gongs are small assemblage table sculptural pieces. The four rod bell-gong is my favourite - I like both the form and sound of this meditation bell-gong.

I have been making a few different pieces lately in preparation for our 601 mvr Open Studio weekend on 14-15 June - only three weeks away. I want to have a range of things in our studio-gallery to show visitors the variety in my work.

Friday, July 5, 2013

A peek at the Open Studio set up for this weekend

On Saturday and Sunday (6-7 July) our studio-gallery (601mvr) is open to the public from 10am to 4pm each day - and I think we are ready. Not only do we have things to show and talk to people about; but we have also given the studio-gallery a bit of a tidy and clean - you can see the view through glistening windows.

I thought I would share a few photos of what people might see as they walk down the driveway; around the studio-gallery; and inside.