Well Hello Everybody! A surprise extra post this week! I don’t appear in front of the camera very often as you may know. I’ve been selected to join the lovely people at find a maker by Craft Festival, created by Sarah James, which launches this week. It’s bringing together a diverse new family of makers. To kick-start we’re doing a ‘meet the maker’ portrait introducing ourselves and our work. Some of this you might know, some might be new…So this is me and some of my paper birds discussing thermals and who will lead the next migration. I describe myself as a designer/maker/storyteller. I live and work in a little village in rural Suffolk, UK making paper sculptures.My work is made from pieces of damaged, discarded books. Mistreated books, defaced books, water-damaged books, books with pages missing, books that had something to say but have reached the end of their life in that form. I welcome them all. I take them in, listen to their tales of woe and give them a new raison d’etre.
Just so you know, we are talking about tiny work. Houses that have only approximately one centimetre squared footprint. They stand in their own little landscape telling their tale. Some are argumentative, some are sad, some are jubilant, many are simply lost. They all have a story to tell and they are hardly ever shy of talking back. The one thing they all have in common is that they are all living on the edge in some way as I think most of us do… I work to both commission and to the beat of the drum in my own head. Thank you for following along with me. Stop by on Fridays for the latest gossip and a cup of tea… xxx
