Monday 23 April 2012

Living with The Ephemerist : Spoons

As well as carving spoons, The Ephemerist collects them. Digging in the vegetable plot yields a fantastic array of ceramic fragments - a new crop every year. This spoon - with only half a handle - is one of my favourites.

Friday 20 April 2012

Living with the Ephemerist 2 : book covers

Finding and reading secondhand Swedish literature is a favourite occupation of The Ephemerist. The covers of these two caught my eye - published in the 1960s


Cover illustration by Per Ahlin



Cover Illustration by Ulf Lofgren

















Sunday 15 April 2012

Living with The Ephemerist 1 : Portuguese seed packets from the 1980s














And they also used to make lovely walking sticks from the tall cabbages as well as caldo verde from the leaves.
















Wednesday 11 April 2012

New Prints

































Two new screenprints created in response to a day at Moorbank Botanical Gardens in Newcastle University in the very creative company of poets and visual artists.
We were all invited by writer in residence Linda France
Some of the work forms part of  'Through the Garden Gate' at the Robinson Gay Gallery, Hexham from the 14th April and Linda will be reading some of her work from her new collection 'Through the Garden Gate' as part of the Hexham Book Festival