Kate Willows

Sounds perfect. Noble of you to buy the beer too 😊

Wow! That’s about half the price of my ‘cheap’ one (which itself is half the price of the normal ticket).

Wow! I thought it was a great movie - packed when I went, although it was a cheap Monday ticket price.

Perfect blue.

#blue #brancasterstaithe

One for the printmakers: Angela Harding on Desert Island Discs right now! 💫

#angelaharding #desertislanddiscs #printmaking

Third and final layer on ‘The Life & Times of the Bowhead Whale (268 Years)’. The lifespan of the bowhead whale is considered the longest of any mammal. Quite wonderful to think they have been swimming around our globe all that time.

#bowheadwhale #whale #longevity #manmal

Having a whale of a time printing this one today…

#whale #whalewatching #whaleofatime

And here’s a slightly different shade of blue, printed on cream instead of white.

#shadesofblue💙 #bridge #albertbridge

Here’s the final print. Working title ‘Over the Albert Bridge’, but I’m open to suggestions!

#albertbridge #sw3 #sw11 #chelsea #battersea #riverthames

I’ve chosen a warm blue for the first layer. Printing the top layer today.

#blue #blueink #albertbridge #chelsea #battersea #batterseapark

Beautiful light today - ‘komorebi’ is the Japanese word for sunlight filtering through trees.

#komorebi #sunlight

Time to crack on with this one.

#printmaking #linoprint

Come along to Bury St. Edmund’s print fair on 4 October, if you’re in the area! There will be 45 printmakers to visit, so plenty of prints to see and people to chat to about their work and the world of printmaking.

#printmaking #burystedmunds #printfair #suffolkart

Beautiful Gdansk murals.

#gdansk #poland #mural #muralart #gdańsk

The amazing amber altar at St. Bridget’s Basilica in Gdansk.

#gdańsk #amber

Amazing stained glass and naturalistically carved wooden pulpit at Antwerp cathedral.

#antwerp #stainedglass #woodcarving

Look for the magic 💫

#magic #levitate

Date for your diary! Print East will be at the Athenaeum in Bury St. Edmunds on Saturday 4 October. There will be stalls covering all types of printmaking and a lot of printmakers to talk to about their work. I’ll be there too!

#printmaking #suffolk #burystedmunds

Third layer printed. Something to brighten up this dreary grey day 💫

#bright #colour

Big cats all the way today… first silicone layer. Off to a party now, so will carry on with this & the panther prints tomorrow.

#bigcat #silicone #siliconemolds

Second layer. This needs to dry a little, so I’ll print the third layer tomorrow.

#pink #orange #printmaking #layers

Printing some Moon Panthers today.

#panther #bigcat #moon

I took this photo of St. Paul’s from Hungerford Bridge last night. It made me think of the Thames TV image, which I now realise was a London mash-up - all the sights squished into one image (second pic) in some 1970s photoshopping!

#thames #thamesriver #london #stpauls #mashup

Happy to be sending one of these off today courtesy of Wychwood Art. ‘Tyger, Tyger, Burning Bright…’.

#linoprinting #linoprint #tiger #tygertyger

Back to this one today and starting to think how I’ll make the mould.

#cheetah #animalsculpture #sculpture #clay #mouldmaking

Added a bit more texture to the wolf to balance out the white.

#stedmundswolf #wolf #legend #burystedmunds #suffolk #linoprint

Test print of St. Edmund’s Wolf. Edmund was an Anglo-Saxon king who ruled East Anglia from 855-869 AD & was killed with arrows by Vikings. They cut off his head & threw it into some bushes. It was found guarded by a #wolf. When placed next to his body, it miraculously became reattached. #linoprint

Working on a little linoprint for at Print East in Bury St. Edmund’s on 4 October at the Atheneum - St. Edmund’s Wolf.

#burystedmunds #wolf #linoprint #printmaking

Interesting artefact in the local junk shop (are the tubes empty?!) and the story of the Nobel Peace Prize (second pic).

#dynamite #explosive #nobel #junk #nobelprize

Reading David Gentleman’s new book ‘Lessons for Young Artists’ (it’s relative, he’s 95) on the tube and ending up at Charing Cross, where the murals are designed by David Gentleman - serendipity!

#davidgentleman #charingcross #drawing