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28 APRIL

28/4/2019

The weather has stayed good since the Easter break, apart from yesterday when we had a storm with hailstones and thunder. I have been spending more time outdoors, tidying up the garden and mending wind-chimes, restoring tubes which got blown around the garden or knocked down by ice and snow, and restoring them to their owners by rethreading them. I found it relaxing and very satisfying. It has been lovely rediscovering secret nooks and crannies, and I spotted a wren's nest amongst the ivy in a secluded corner behind the shed.

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24 APRIL

24/4/2019

What can I make patterns from? Messing about with old drawings.

14 APRIL

14/4/2019

Flashback to 2015: working on wood veneers.
Reading left to right from the top:
Africa. Heat, stillness, earth colours and textiles.
France. Parisian elegance and music,
America. A sense of distance between east and west seaboards.
Canada. The bright pale northern territories.
Brazil. Coffee beans
England. The architecture of bridges and the age of engineering.

7 APRIL

8/4/2019

Word play in every sense. This is an inexpensive notebook I bought from Asda; I like the paper because it suits the pressure I use when I draw, and because it isn't precious I'm not scared to use it (Moleskines can be a bit intimadating!)
I am as comfortable as a child when drawing in notebooks this way.

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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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Mug design from a sketchbook from c2003 when I was studying ceramics at Barnet College

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A 2013 work book, still very much in use

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