♥️♥️♥️ For all the strong mum's... may we know them, may we be them, may we raise them. I look back through my personal history and see a tower of strong women supporting each other to the beginning of time, I look forward and I see the strongest so far in my daughter's @bethanysrobinson ,& @elliegregor ♥️♥️♥️

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I submitted some work to ExLibris @nsanewlyn for which I made this painting and another as a diptych, but decide it's pair was not really completed so it didn't go I took some printmaking completed last week responding to the same narrative in its place...

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Saw my first bluebell today 💙💚💙 . . . Bluebell cast from a few years ago . I love this time of year 💙💚💙

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Lapwings and Hare.. The lapwing's call heralded of the start of Spring and many Easter customs are linked to it. Most birds eggs were eaten at Easter but the lapwing suffered most being a ground nesting bird, it became a vast commercial market, Queen Victoria favoured her plover eggs cooked in aspic. Within 20 years they had stripped the whole of the south of England as far as Lincolnshire. Nearing extinction in 1926 the introduction of the Lapwing Act officially stopped this practice although farming practices and habitat loss still drastically threaten them still. The Easter bunny was originally a Hare but it was so steeped in Pagan folklore that it was deemed 'unfitting' for Christian purposes. Hares, hide from predators by making a shallow indentation in the soil known as a form. Lapwings classically inhabit the same territories as hares and make a scrape of a nest on the ground. Lapwings were know to use a hare's form as a nest and so eggs where often found in a form and occasionally assumed to have been laid by the Hare

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Another March Hare ... this time in print a linocut with monoprint combination.

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As we approach easter i like to look up stories about where traditions come from ... so here is a thought about the hare. The Hare and the Lapwing The Easter bunny was originally a Hare but it was so steeped in Pagan folklore that it was deemed 'unfitting' for Christian purposes. Hares, hide from predators by making a shallow indentation in the soil known as a form. Lapwings classically inhabit the same territories as hares and make a scrape of a nest on the ground. Lapwings were know to use a hare's form as a nest and so eggs where often found in a form and occasionally assumed to have been laid by the Hare. . This small Hare original painting along with a few others on paper are over in my shop... there is also a 20% off if you use the code MADMARCH until the 31st March 😊

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A little more pattern... this time with a March hare... . . . This one can be found as a card in my shop and if you use code MADMARCH you will receive 20% OFF until 31st ... . . . . .

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Ravens... monoprint and linocut

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Painting again but because I have been away from it for a while it's all a bit laboured! 😣

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TBT I painted this a long time ago, it began my use of pattern which I feel compelled to use still... I feel it kind of stands in for represents contemporary society or the Anthropocene... ???

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Striding into the last week of March... lots of Jackdaws around today calling and generally doing their thing...they always seem up beat and chatty, sociable and busy with the things that Jackdaws do, I often wonder what they talk about...

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I love making zines, I like the immediacy and the way it generates ideas ... someone mentioned that these would be a good idea ... so i thought i woukd have a go, mind, body, home and car care as part of general self care and mental health awareness ...

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A proof for another raven today ... inspired by the Ted Hughes poem "the risen"

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Another little experimental print starlings being enveloped by pattern...

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Feeling grateful for the blue sky and the crow who wished me good morning as he flew by just now.... have a fabulous Friday!

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The Magpies nesting in my garden now seem to be eating everything I put out for them not sure if they have young yet but the are certainly hungry...

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A single oystercatcher and a big yellow sun... for the equinox more light than dark now... woohoo!

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Sketching ideas for a some paintings I have been thinking about for a while...

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TOP or BOTTOM???? . . .

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It's been very grey here in cornwall so I hope to bring a little brightness with this over-printed starling. . . . . . #wip #illustration #contemporaryprintmaking #humananimalrelationship #ukprintmakers #get_imprinted #contemporaryprintmaking #printmakingtoday #creativeinspiration #happyaccident #patterndesign #patternmaking #repeatpattern #printandpattern #sketchbook #inthestudio #collageart #creativityandplay #camoflage

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Whilst reading about Bran and Branwen in the mabinogion I remembered that Branwen trained a sterling to help her ...

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For a slightly differnt, a more real world observation of Crows this poem by Mary Oliver is also one of my favourites... Crows From a single grain they have multiplied. When you look in the eyes of one you have seen them all. At the edges of highways they pick at limp things. They are anything but refined. Or they fly out over the corn like pellets of black fire, like overlords. (Crow is crow, you say. What else is there to say? Drive down any road, take a train or an airplane across the world, leave your old life behind, die and be born again— wherever you arrive they’ll be there first, glossy and rowdy and indistinguishable. The deep muscle of the world

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Lapwings ... peewits mesmerising in flight 💙💙💙

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Gool Peran Lowen! Happy St Piran’s Day! "The heathen Irish tied him to a mill-stone, rolled it over the edge of a cliff into a stormy sea, which immediately became calm, and the saint floated safely over the water to land upon the sandy beach of Perranzabuloe in Cornwall. His first disciples are said to have been a badger, a fox and a bear" "He landed in Cornwall, and there established himself as a hermit. His sanctity and his austerity won for him the veneration of all around, and the gift of miracles, with which he was favoured, brought many to seek his charitable aid. He was joined at Perranzabuloe by many of his Christian converts and together they founded the Abbey of Lanpiran, with Piran as abbot. St Piran 'rediscovered' tin-smelting (tin had been smelted in Cornwall since before the Romans' arrival, but the methods had since been lost) when his black hearthstone, which was evidently a slab of tin-bearing ore, had the tin smelt out of it and rise to the top in the form of a white cross, thus the image on the flag"

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A preview of a little starling monoprint - linocut combination this one trundle over to Trelowarren gallery for the @cornwall_crafts Spring Exhibition which will open on the 9th March. Very excited to be exhibition here for the first time !

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Some days are just a bit like this! All is well...today but I have felt like this many times. I am working on ideas for some paintings but this from a short narrative that I created when doing my MA is really the starting point..together with Mental Health awareness and self care.

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Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Hapus” “Happy St. David’s Day” My interest in St david began with the dove on his shoulder… maybe not surprisingly The most famous miracle associated with St David took place when he was preaching to a large crowd in Llanddewi Brefi. When people complained that they could not hear him, the ground on which he stood rose up to form a hill. A white dove settled on his shoulder. Legend states he was the son of Sant, King of Ceredigion and a nun called Nonnita. He was born more than 15 centuries ago on the Pembrokeshire cliffs during a ‘fierce storm’. He became a monk at a young age and founded a monastery where St David's Bishop's Palace and the Cathedral are now built. He was made an archbishop later in life and died on March 1, 589 AD when he was 100 years old.. His final words to the community of monks were: "Brothers be ye constant. The yokewhich with single mind ye have taken, bear ye to the end; and whatsoever ye have seen with me and heard, keep and fulfil." . .#anthrozoology #stdavidsday

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"Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Hapus” “Happy St. David’s Day” . .today I will mostly be printmaking @cornwallcollege Repost @baartdesigncornwall • • • • • • Looking forward to the first of our taster days today...on St David's day ! #baartdesigncornwall

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All the Ravens... precariously balanced, struggling to maintain their position on each others shoulders and that tiny ball... so much like life some days! 🌍 and our planet everyday....

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One more happy accident before I move back to intended outcomes ... I felt the need to share a little yellow in honour of this glorious day in cornwall ☀️☀️☀️💛💛💛☀️☀️☀️. . . . .#wip #illustration #contemporaryprintmaking #humananimalrelationship #ukprintmakers #get_imprinted #contemporaryprintmaking #printmakingtoday #creativeinspiration #happyaccident #patterndesign #patternmaking #repeatpattern #printandpattern #sketchbook #inthestudio #collageart

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Work on progress ... I am quite obsessed with these at the moment ... Just don't quite know how to take them forward yet.. a period of reflection and contemplation is required . I kind of feel like they would make lovely pendants (scaled down) does anyone know of a casting or laser etching company who could do this?

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Creativity and play are so inextricably linked, the most exciting things happen when I am not trying to force it...this print is so much more interesting than I had planned 😋 starlings with camouflage

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I had a wonderful day of printmaking yesterday, it was very good to get back to the studio... felt like it had been a while ... lapwings....

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Swifts against a window...in Portugal the swifts were nesting around the churches wheeling overhead and screeching their song... it was hot and enchanting ☀️

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I am intrigued by this one... it is an by product if another idea and the pattern could do with being higher but I like lots of things about it and that it seems to work metaphorically for a few other ideas I have 🤣😂😁 the joy of being edited by your own mistakes!!!. . . . . .#wip #metaphor #birdinacage #illustration #contemporaryprintmaking #humananimalrelationship #ukprintmakers #get_imprinted #contemporaryprintmaking #printmakingtoday #creativeinspiration #happyaccident #patterndesign #patternmaking #repeatpattern #printandpattern #sketchbook #inthestudio #collageart

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A happy accident... oystercatchers overprinted ... Interesting!?!? . . . . . . #wip #illustration #contemporaryprintmaking #humananimalrelationship #ukprintmakers #get_imprinted #contemporaryprintmaking #printmakingtoday #creativeinspiration #happyaccident #patterndesign #patternmaking #repeatpattern #printandpattern #sketchbook #inthestudio #collageart

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A little wren on a ball, a painting for a change ... my printmaking is generating a whole host of ideas for paintings, but then I realised that my painting generated the ideas for printmaking.... always going round in an inescapable circle 😂

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#Repost @morvahschoolhousegallery • • • • • • Wonderful sheep, horses and pigs ...and many more!by Suzy Sharpe in our current Studio Sale that runs until 3rd March 🐑✨ #paintings #prints #cards #mixedmedia #sheepofinstagram #cornwallart #morvahschoolhousegallery #studiosale #suzysharpeartist

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New ideas hopefully start these on Friday swifts... remembering the heat of the summer in Portugal.

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Managed to get a quick proof of my mackerel plates... they look a bit grumpy! 🤣

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How lovely thank you @studiohutton #repost • • • • • • What a coincidence @suzysharpeart we’ve just been admiring your work in the Gurnard’#s Head . . . . @gurnardshead

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Only 3 days till the deadline for applications for the @cornwallcollege artists residency ...

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Another play with composition a tower of corvids ....

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Primroses... this us a direct monoprint made last year.. I always feel so inspired at this time of year... this was going to be part of a year long nature diary but petered out in June! ... #impressionsofnature. . . . . #countrylife #countryliving #wildflowers #art #designermaker #contemporaryprintmaker #contemporarycraft #monoprint #printmaking #woodland #natureprint #originalprint #naturewalk #botanical #print #botanicalillustration #ruralbusiness #naturediary #primroses

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I have been sorting through some small mono prints ready to go into my shop ... I never get over the intricate beauty the process highlights #nobetterdesignerthannature

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I haven't really developed my cormorant plates yet so hopefully soon I will ...but I am intersted what does sitting them on a ball say to you? I want them to be a kind of starting point for conversation or thinking but not sure if it's only of interest to me 😂😂😂

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An Oystercatcher against the sun, it was beautiful down at Marazion today, there are often (quite distractingly) lots of Oystercatchers on the roundabout, but also at the beach in Mounts Bay...

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Looking forward to seeing how these three mackerel plates print ... needing a few adjustments for certain but I enjoyed carving them. . . . . . .....#linocut #printmaking #blockprinting #reliefprinting #lino #mackerel #mackrelprint #fishprint #cornwallart #cornwallwildlife #wildlifeart #artiststudio #inthestudio #art #illustration #collage #mixedmedia #wildlife #naturalworld #animalartist #mixedmedia #contemporaryprintmaking #wildlifeartist #humananimalrelationship

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Oystercatchers idea the window/arch would be in blue or maybe yellow ... playing with compositions

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Gorgeousness in the garden on a damp and misty morning in cornwall ❤🌱🌼🤩

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