27 APRIL: New works

27/4/2020

The first two artworks made as a result of the templates diary. They are on ruled sheets of paper taken from a vintage Cameron's Register of Class Marks, R.H. The book had never been used; it belonged to my mother, who was assistant head teacher at a primary school in Rosyth for 40 years. The sheets measure 21x34cm, or 8-1/4 x 13-1/2 inches as it was back then, and are ruled in charming light blue, dark blue and pink.

I love the fact I am reuniting the whole family with these drawings: my mother's register, my father's templates, and my brother's F-hole violin template I found. It feels like a wonderful collaboration.
R. M. Cameron & Sons Ltd were established at 166 Easter Road, Edinburgh EH7 SQE.
The post code would date the book to the 1960s, as they were first introduced in Norwich in 1959 (the year I was born) and rolled out across the UK in the 1960s.

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I work a LOT in sketchbooks and always have several on the go. My dad was an architect and naval draughtsman, and after he died in 2017 I found heaps of old templates while clearing out his study. Always having been an avid collector of shapes, at the beginning of this year I bought a WHSmith A5 diary to use as a sketchbook specifically for work based on them.

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As well as the work you see here, I illustrate under the name of Binky McKee (my mother's maiden name was McKee, Binky was every single one of my great grandmother's many cats!)
If you would like to visit my Binky website, please click the picture above.

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