The Eloquent Fold - Book of Days Project

The Eloquent Fold - Book of Days Project 

The project ran over four weeks in Spring 2017, on Thursdays in Roade Library and Fridays in Deanshanger Library from 3.00pm to 5.00pm. The sessions were free.

Participants learnt how to make their own handmade books using print and journalling techniques fill ing their own books with ideas such as key events in family life, career, village life, the gardening year, dreams for the future, dates in history that have impacted on the participant in some way

Participants learnt how to make their own handmade 

books using print and journalling techniques 

The Eloquent Fold ensured that, whilst exploring days that had a personal significance to the maker and creating a hand made book, they provided a warm, friendly space in which to support wellbeing and create new friendships.

Sessions always ended with refreshments served in vintage china (in this way I have turned my passion for old crockery into something useful and pleasurable!).

You can see all the images and books here

Deanshanger 1

Deanshanger 2

Deanshanger 3

Deanshanger 4

Roade 1 

Roade 2

Roade 3

Roade 4

Extra Session 

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The Book of Days was a project funded by the Northampton Community Foundation David Laing Family Fund and run by artists Carole Miles and Phiona Richards both of whom love books; print stitch; gathering and creating stories. 

Invitation Accepted

Socially Engaged Artists Katie Smith and Kate Genever are on a mission to find out what it means to "Power-Up" and invited me to make a postcard exploring the theme. I got a bit carried away and made six. I guess you could say my own practice is in a drought phase so this has been a good opportunity to experiment and to use some digital doodles, odds and ends and a few thoughts. I seem quite preoccupied with dreaming, I think I am longing for escape.

If you would like to send a Power-Up postcard to Katie and Kate you can find the brief here

If you would like to see the gallery of Power-Ups so far please follow this link

Continuum - Whats Cooking?

I'd love to tell you but am sworn to secrecy, but whatever it is I'm making / baking, they will be part of the Miles and Dacombe Continuum Walk for the Our Woods Festival. Don't forget to book your tickets!

My excellent helpers, Sue and Stacie sorting sweeties

and letting me run amok with the Green Patch oven!

Continuum - Battery - Test

Continuum Research - Sometimes Found in the Woods

These unusual items discovered whils scoping in Thoroughsale Woods with Jo Dacombe during our research period for Continuum also became part of one of the songs written for Dreaming Our Woods. Barg Jungr asked each of the members of Ring of Fire to write a verse (or verses) for a song about The Oak. This came after a walk taken with Barb and the choir where we stopped by a magnificent, ancient oak tree in the woods. People shared ideas about the life of the tree, what it meant to them and all the many events that may have taken place under its generous canopy of leaves and branches. I wrote three verses - see if you can spot them here.

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Continuum Summer - Canopies

During our research period Jo Dacombe and I took plenty of images of the leaf canopies in Thoroughsale Woods plus a few other woods during the summer months of 2016. 

I used these images to create a series of digital canopy banners, we had a hard time choosing three from the five. It would have been lovely to have them all but having already found extra money ourselves to have them printed we were just able to afford to have three. We decided to print them on ripstop nylon and had the hems sewn by the print company.

Dreaming Our Woods in Rehearsal

First sharing of work made by the three lead artists Barb Jungr, Kurt Laurenz Theinart and Neil Paristrying the songs and dance sections with work created by Kurt's Visual Piano. I love singing but I am getting larger by the minute and the dance element makes me aware what a poor thing my body is. However in the safe cocoon of the lights, bathes by the sounds we are creating I am, for a time, able to forget my self-consciousness.