Scanograph of a fox skull found under a hedge I Found a Dead Fox Mary Oliver I found a dead fox beside the gravel road, curled inside the big iron wheel of an old tractor that has been standing, for years, in the vines at the edge of the road. I don’t know what happened to it- when it came there or why it lay down for good, settling its narrow chin on the rusted rim of the iron wheel to look out over the fields, and that way died- but I know this: its posture- of looking, to the last possible moment, back into the world- made me want to sing something joyous and tender about foxes. But what happened is this- when I began, when I crawled in through the honeysuckle and lay down curling my long spine inside that cold wheel, and touched the dead fox, and looked out into the wide fields, the fox vanished. There was only myself and the world, and it was I who was leaving. And what could I sing then? Oh, beautiful world! I just lay there and looked at it. And then it grew dark. That day was done with. And then the stars stepped forth and held up their appointed fires- those hot, hard watchmen of the night.

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Just…this…feeling a bit lost today , one of my much loved sheep Kevin died yesterday…they take a little piece of me with them when they go…but only because they bring so much to my life whilst they are here. 💙💙💙

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Ink version…of my rabbit girl. This narrative explored the idea that we take the place of our pets in order to experience our treatment of them…which is often based on love but not always ideal….

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Untitled sketch….

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Mermaid tears…acrylic on canvas about a grey seal called UGG who was rescued by divers from her fishing line necklace..

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Just listening to the news discussing the near extinction of song birds in java ..this body of work was in response to the trapping of wild birds for the pet trade . . . . .

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The pair to ‘ reservoir of disease’ is ‘absolute power’

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Reservoir of disease…acrylic on canvas recently found a new home…

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Another bird human..part of a wordless narrative exploring the sense of captivity…real or imagined charcoal and ink on paper . . . . .

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Bird! . . . . . #darknarrative #humananimal #fineart #authorialillustration #birdman #contemoprarypainting

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‘what we sow’ from ovids poem Acteaon …2014 100cm sq

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Experimental painting workshop with our wonderful 1st years…. . . . . . #cornwallcollege #bahons #contemporarycreativepractice

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Staying with the dark narrative ‘by any means necessary’ one of a series of painting made for my MA Show at @falmouthuni in 2014 as I walked around the complex relationships between humans and animals .

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From the timeless diary of an Edwardian lady- R L Stevenson the vagabond….

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Todays workshop at #cornwallcollege will be working with paper…to create 3d sculptural heads …these are some birds based on the same technique made a few years ago :)

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Todays workshop at #cornwallcollege will be working with paper…to create 3d sculptural heads …these are some birds based on the same technique made a few years ago :)

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We have been making lots of casts this week…leaves being the most exciting, here are a few snippets :)

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So pleased with this cast of a Cormorant skull :)

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Last one before I head off back to my studio…wire drawing over cast beach finds from Barmouth :)

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Mixed media cormorant, wire drawing with cast of a found skull….

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Gorgeous medieval bramble drawing by herbologist and botanist heironymus bock coupled with a cast of the same plant…although there are still blackberries around we should no longer eat them because after michealmas ‘the devil spat on them!’ 😈

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My oak impression together with a wonderful piece by Hieronymus bock herbalist and botanist of the medieval period…his oaks would have looked the same as mine…but would it have held more meaning? :)

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Honeysuckle traditionally associated with courtship and devotion as it’s stems entwine themselves around branches and saplings…also favoured by doormice as nest lining and rich food source.

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Building a picture of my Nana in her early days…I am very luck to have some writing about her childhood in which she talks of her family and the first world war… her mum working in munitions and the sadness when all the men had to go to war…’a very sad time’ 💚

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Building a picture of my Nana in her early days…I am very luck to have some writing about her childhood in which she talks of her family and the first world war… her mum working in munitions and the sadness when all the men had to go to war…’a very sad time’ 💚

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‘nana’ my ideas for this are starting to take shape at last :)

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