A one-off relief print for my uncle’s 60th birthday. He loves a meat ‘n’ potato pie, but the good ones are hard to come by down south, so I made him an ever-lasting one instead. This blockprint won’t ever be repeated, so I won’t be selling this print – even though I was asked to whilst I was at his party this weekend!
Hand-carved blockprint using PZKut, printed with Daler Rowney ink on Japanese simili paper.
When I got back home I was thrilled to see my Footprints artwork had been included in the DudeCraft round-up. I love the DudeCraft blog, the posts send you to many fascinating artists – you can get lost for hours following them all.
This next bit is really for the people who know me personally – so they can see how brave I was this weekend! My parents, hubby and I visited Duxford Imperial War Museum, and although I am not happy bunny around planes, I got to achieve one ambition – to go on Concorde – being the “Contrary Mary” I am, I did always fancy flying on one of these! Yes, here I am stood in the doorway, about to go in
(Apologies for the bad photos – the camera on my phone doesn’t do well in low light.)

Mind, I do look a bit apprehensive in that photo, don’t I?!
It was a really interesting day, and I also got to see close-up two of the planes that my dad helped to design, and he could explain exactly which areas of each plane he designed. They were the Tornado:

I used to have a poster of the Jaguar up on my bedroom wall, being so proud of my dad! It’s strange that I should be so reluctant to get on a plane though, isn’t it? A fascinating day, and well worth a visit if you’re in the area.
I’ll be back soon with more news on the collaborative journal project and where you will be able to see our work – we’re just in the planning stages at the moment
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