up - date

2 day workshop http://www.fbsarts.co.uk/ teaching Japanese Style paper making and bookbinding.

Short course at http://www.csm.arts.ac.uk/ 'Papermaking for Artists and Designers'

Got a new website (which is still in the process of being built) http://mandybrannan.co.uk/

Found and put a deposit on a studio space - now I can really get busy making paper!! Its about a 20 min walk from where I live, near Brockwell Park!

In a group exhibition with MA's from Camberwell http://upsideart.wordpress.com/

Lastly - maybe - teaching at http://store.falkiners.com/store/ - in negotiations

Fern

Yesterday I rescued some fern fronds...... let's see what they look like when they are processed - hope the results are better than the pine needle paper.....

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The pine needles made rather softish paper when added to the abaca - no way could I make a sheet with just pine needles - thought I'd add some gampi that I had in the fridge - a pinky flesh colour - looks really nice in the vat but dried to rather unexciting beige.

Overall - a bit of a disappointment!!

Pine needles...hmmmm

Christmas tree pine needles - after Christmas they seemed to love flinging themselves off their branches! - Now I'm trying to prepare the ones I saved and they refuse to let go easily!

But... Quite like the branches when they are removed - leaving small circular shapes.

Previous classes I've taught..

While I was looking for some images for a class proposal I came across these - really enjoyed teaching these 'assemblage with found objects and text' classes at the Minnesota Center for Book Arts- they were different from the usual papermaking or book making classes.

Looking back.

As I really should get serious about the papermaking side of my practice - (studio/supplies/shows/small income maybe) I thought I'd look back at some of the artists that have influenced my work and techniques.

This work is by an artists that came to Fresno to teach a workshop (early 90's) and ended up staying for quite a while - can't remember how long but it must have been at least a year!! Karen Stahlecker. She stayed in Kathy Wasika's guest house and became envolved with us Fresno/Clovis based papermakers and other artists in the area. It was during her workshop that I became interested in her pigmenting and process techniques that greatly influence my papermaking then and now!

This is the work that I helped erect for her gallery show at the college.

Whistable,

This was a really lovely place to have a book fair - I thoroughly enjoyed my day - talked to some friendly book artists/teachers/folks on holiday.

I sold lots of paper packs and had some interesting feed-back from Simon regarding the RIBA pop-up shop.

After the show I brought fish and chips to eat down on the beach - a purrrfect end to a great day.

Some of the other folks I met there................

Oh ..... while sitting at the show discovered a new trick on my camera - see above picts!!!