Perambulations – The Year so Far…

Injury may have curtailed my walking but I have not been idle – my perambulations have remained in the imagination. Walks have been planned, ideas have been formed but feet have not walked. I’m trying to get permission to walk a particular route around my village which would take me from the present, through WW2 and Victorian, past the Tudor and Medieval, close to the Anglo Saxon, Roman and Bronze Age. There is just a mile of ‘private’ land on the derelict airfield – seeking permission though. I will walk this route with maps from 1945, 1926, 1885 and 1835; with archaeological plans of old settlements and hydrological maps showing forgotten wells, one of which could be St Augustine’s. I would cross and re-cross the county border; walk across the range of wartime radar. I will awaken these silent narratives by walking, observing and documenting once my footsteps can be taken with ease.

Collaborations with a Bark Beetle – relearning Printmaking

Back in the summer I found a dead tree covered in these marks. These are the signs of Bark Beetle activity. I took ludicrous numbers of photos and rubbings of the tree trunk. Some came up beautifully with a little colour correction and I’ve posted them on my Facebook page – Perambulations. However I thought such markings lent themselves to print making. After experimenting with heat reactive foam to take moulds,  I rooted out my lino tools not used for nearly twenty years – early results below – from photo to lino block to rubbed proof to first print

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