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I thought I should extend my practice at Contact Darkroom, so I undertook some trials of using liquid photographic emulsion. There is some work to be done exploring how much to size rag paper, ratio of PVA to water etc. But a start of a project here in Cornwall.

A delightful week with the team in Totnes, polishing up my enlarging skills, walking Dartmoor with a 5x4 pinhole.

At the end of 2020, I was involved in a project in West Penwith that engaged artists with the prehistoric structures scattered across the landscape. During this time, I created a photo/painting and developed a proposal for a photography project. The onset of lockdown...

In light of new engagement projects at Kresen Kernow and The Museum of Cornish Life this autumn, I wanted to try some new processes for sharing with others

A short film about our celebration day https://youtu.be/zwrNJCXGYrI

Delivered a piece of work for Camp Kernow an off grid summer camp for children, made a darkroom from not much, the kids where really keen to make 'ghosts' which was fun (see the movie here). Had some leftover paper so I took a picture in the river at Bosahan woods,...

With funding from Tehidy Community Chest and Camborne Council we were able to hold a celebration day on Saturday 14th June. The cottage was open to visitors to look at the outputs of the Tehidy Creative Residency Programme (see previous posts) and the work of The...

Endeavouring to keep the research and development 'made from Tehidy', I made masks and costumes from leaves, thread and cordage from nettles, The Penlee Family project had a go too. Each stage of making cordage is particularly satisfying and in another life I would...

All the drawings were based on conversations with communities about seeing, looking for and capturing faces in the woods. A popular pastime with many it seems. The camera obscura developed many conversations about the links between drawing and the history of...

Creating costumes using plants has unique challenges, those Laurel leaves where however plentiful. There was on the whole a rejection of mask wearing from our sitters. Here we have women from The Active Looking Project, The International Women's group at Women's...