A Miscellany of Things

Collage as a way to pathfind through forests

On fairytales, fragments of ephemera and navigating in the dark

Collage as a way to question and re-centre

(with added ghosts, kites, composting and piñatas) Recently, I’ve been asked by quite a few people why I am a collage artist. Not just in the aesthetics or the idea of collage as a small act of resistance, but in the personal scale of it.… Read more

Digital collage - Image of moon over image of water, with female figure in wedding gown with a huge peony for a head. Butterflies are reflected mid-image

Magical artefacts of image and text – broadsides

It’s been a while since I posted on here. This is mainly because I’ve been busy with collaborative and commercial projects. I’ve been busy thinking about flower-headed figures and the moon, and how I might incorporate small hand-drawn creatures into collage. But I also wanted… Read more

Image of a paper theatre card pop-out with background of mountains and sea/sky combined, middle layer of a classical scene with temple and trees, and curtains. Two victorian women, one with curled goats horns, clasp hands on layer 2. A woman with a bird head can be seen in the distance. Text can just be glimpsed 'the key'

Pop up & pop out visual poetry book experiments

During June I’ve been experimenting with pop-up and pop out ideas. I want to be ready to work with The Ethelzine next year on a visual poetry book. It’s also great timing because the staff showcase is coming up at my workplace, Hereford College of… Read more

What a wonderful whorl! (by Ralph La Rosa)

I’m really proud to be able to showcase a response by Ralph La Rosa to the Rattle Ekphrastic Challenge, won by Mary Meriam. The poem is below, and huge thanks to Ralph for both sharing the poem with me and being happy for me to… Read more

Line drawn image of a palm, with a bird-headed figure and flowers - text reads art and bone the palmist must shape the fingers'

National Poetry Writing Month

It’s April, which means National Poetry Writing Month, or NaPoWriMo for short. What is National Poetry Writing Month? The challenge of NaPoWriMo is to write a poem a day for 30 days, and there are various lovely prompts and communities of writers working across the… Read more