I just found this photo on the floor in my garage, It's a still life from my GCSE days, I guess I was about 15. I used to love the depth and pattern I could get within a rope. As for smooth surfaces, they are definitely my weakness. While most of my work is dotty to date , back then it was all about cross hatching. I can see quite a bit of yesterday's picture here, It's like I have gone back to where I started.

I have just finished this pen drawing, it seems a little strange to be working in black and white, but I quite like it. I would like to see what it would look like as a screen print. Red on turquoise, purple or blue on peach to suggest a few contrasting combinations. It will be the start of my Itchycoo Lovers series.

It reads:

Sister to sister we will always be talking a language of snarls and smiles, frowns and winks.

After all the troubles with flying during the past couple of weeks, who needs to go abroad!

On the beach in North Devon.

Just a quick not say that you can go and see a selection of my art work at The Chelsea Art Fair with New British Artists. The venue is in the delightful Chelsea Old Town Hall on the Kings Road. The fair opens for it's private view tomorrow, Thursday 22nd April 6.30 - 9pm and continues Friday 23rd, Sat 24th 11am - 8pm and Sunday 25th 11am - 6pm. If you go to www.newbritishartists.co.uk you can have a look at other shown artists, while also down loading a complimentary invite. More information can be seen at www.chelseaartfair.org

Here is the fruit strip just done:

'It's a Juicy kind of Love.'

I think I like this one the most so far. I'm looking forward to see how my cupcakes will look, they are next.

So the pattern worked, I have my own mug! Shame about the quality. Here are a few testers below. It's a shame as in reality they are rather grey and dull. As for the two below with a rainbow and daisies, the image has been printed upside down. - No that wasn't me! I'm not sure what happened there- yet. I already had the placemat of Sometimes it Snows in April.

The next step would be to get the image lifted from the background and continue into the inside of the cup, while adding some depth within some of the larger dots.

It's been a while, I've been looking at pattern's within my paintings that could be used for products, a cup or maybe even a wash bag? I would love to get something reproduced onto fabric or ceramics. Here are my first images.