Painting: Acrylics

Only a miniature, really. It shows the view across fields, hawthorn hedges and ancient crumbling stone walls towards the Sliabh Gamh or Ox Mountains in County Mayo, Ireland. 
 

Curryaun Fields
Acrylics on board, acrylic varnish. 2004.
Size: 10 x 10cm

Fabric design: Tunic

I like this kind of garment because it's so versatile. So I bought a bolt of sturdy unbleached linen fabric and asked a friend to sew tunics for me. I dyed them in different colours and decorated them with my own stamps, cut in Speedball
Speedy Cut.
The tunics of this series are all shown on one of the mannequins I designed to display my fabric art.
 

Linen, Procyon fabric dye, Setacolor fabric paint,
hand made stamps. 1999.
Length: 82 cm

Printmaking: Collograph

For the print Home Work I used a bottle of PVA glue like a pencil, creating raised lines that leave an imprint on paper that is run through a printing press (embossing). These lines, inked up, also print and define areas of colour application. The resulting shapes can be interpreted as a domestic scene - window washing doesn't seem too far fetched...

Hardboard, Speedball waterbased relief ink, 
Caligo watersoluble intaglio ink on cartridge paper. 2007.
Size: 42 x 60cm