Time after Time: An Artist's Book in the Making

  My colleague and I have just heard that we have been awarded £4K in Conservation and Heritage funding to develop a collaborative research project at Tyneham. This first round of seed funding has to be spent by the end of July, so we are going to be busy visiting the site and contacting potential collaborators from the MoD, the University, the local community - artists, educators, descendants of the villagers - as well as museums and research institutions.  If the project attracts further funding, we hope to use the site for undergraduate and postgraduate studio projects but also to develop practice-research by using a range of creative methods to visualise and document the hidden histories of the abandoned village. This will be a perfect opportunity for me to develop my illustrative practices/artist's books as research (alongside Time after Time which could take another year to complete at current speeds!) - an exciting way to link my artwork and lecturing work. 

I have taken a break from my hand-crafted work today, to play with Mental Canvas and Procreate. The image above is an illustration for a series of lovely children's stories my sister has written; I am not the person for the job but it has been fun to develop some skills. The sketch below is my first using Mental Canvas, a toe in the water with so much more to learn!