Etching

Nov 2011

this was my first go at plate etching, the coloured version is made using tissue paper which is applied to the etching and rolled through the press so it is almost imbedded in the image.

J. D. Salinger's The Glass Family

Franny and Zooey

A Perfect Day for Bananafish

These covers were designed for an older audience. I chose these stories because I love them and think it's a shame that so many people only read The Catcher in the Rye and no more of Salinger's work. I wrote the copy for all of the covers and these two were created with photography, for which my boyfriend proved a willing model. 

J. D. Salinger's The Glass Family for teens

Franny and Zooey

For Esmé, with Love and Squalor

These are book covers which I designed for my self-initiated final project during my Graphic Design HND in 2009. These two are aimed at a teenage audience and were made with collage. 

Mushroom Piano

My parent's were thinking of getting rid of our old piano as no one ever played it anymore.

I thought this would be a good opportunity to re-vamp it. I went with the idea of it being a forgotten, festering object and decorate it with images of mushrooms and fungi. I originally wanted to do it using pyrography but it proved impossible on the pianos bad quality wood. I painted it with acrylics instead and tried to simulate the look of pyrography instead. 

these illustrations are for an article on the Edinburgh Fringe Festival which I wrote. 

headpiece made for a jewellery project in 2007, make with wire, beads and tissue paper.

life drawing - 2010

a photo from the end of year exhibiton for my BTEC First in Art and Design at Telford College

2008

The Dreadnought Hoax - Journey Project

This was my first major project of the school year, the Journey Project.

 The brief was very open, we were to take a journey, real or imaginary and then make something

 based on our experiences. 

In my journey I go back to February 7th 1910, to The Dreadnought Hoax. I created artefacts to do with the event, a typewritten letter and a newspaper article based on ones I had read about the incidence. You can also see there my short essay which we wrote to explain our ideas. As well as those, I made examples of what might be reported in modern media were the stunt to be performed today, as I thought that the public's reaction would be very different now as to what it was when the trick was revealed to the papers in 1910.