144 train tickets on an A1 frame

That's right! Dan and I finally finished our mini-project yesterday- and it looks great! 

We decided to do something with all our train tickets that we collected from March this year after getting back from HK. After a few ums and ars we decided to put them on in a striped format. 

It certainly gives the train tickets a new lease of life. Just goes to show anything can be made into art.

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I think I should become an Entomologist

Because I just can't get enough of fascinating creepy crawley's like these!

Spiky Caterpillar

Lizard

Lantern Bug

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Artist Rosie Ablewhite

A few weeks ago, I asked Rosie if she could do me a painting of my Dad on a stone for his birthday. I wanted something which was different, unusual and something which would be a conversation starter. My Dad keeps bees in the bottom of the garden so I asked her to paint his portrait. A week later and this is the beautiful outcome. Talented Rosie, is the new artist in residence of Lincoln Art Works.  She draws and paints beautiful portraits of well-known people and celebrities. Her work is fantastic.

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You can click here to see her work.

Here are some photos of this beautiful piece.

In the Sheets- New Project!

In the Sheets is a project inspired by my personal dream diary.  I have suffered from insomnia for a number of years, when I do finally sleep, I have very strange dreams. Because these dreams were so strange, a friend who is also a poet suggested I write them down. From this, I decided to base my project on these dreams. The dreams range from fun, to strange to interesting to very dark. I was also heavily inspired by Sam Winston’s ‘Solace’ piece.

The text is hand-cut and scanned in to give the effect of depth and to allow them to flow in a wave form, to present the brain waves we have when we sleep. The material is very thin tracing paper, which allows the text to be seen through on either side to represent the lucid dreams.

I decided to create 5 short stories, as there are 5 stages of sleep. The typeface has 5 different weights, all of which change depending on the sleep stage. Each story explains the stage of sleep and also picks out particular words. These words are given a dictionary definition. The words are explored to see what it means to dream about ‘swimming’ for example. 

At the end of the story is a separate page of my scanned personal dream diary to add an element of reality to these unusual dreams.

My lovely new phone case!

My brother is a photographer. He has his work on a website called Society6. Click here to see it. 

I bought one of his prints on an iphone case called 'Spring Blossom'. What a beautiful phone case! I'm so happy with it. It's lovely quality and the photo printed on it is perfect. For anyone who is looking for a one-off case. Check out his work. It's excellent!