‘Margate Landlady’ Work-in-progress. One of a number of silverpoint drawings based on people in an old photograph from Margate. Note: any similarity to any B&B owners currently living in Margate or Cliftonville is purely coincidental.
Here are some images of my ‘studio’ (my work space) in Margate. It’s a small back room in the Victorian house in Margate where I grew up.
I am now considering new elements and development of the project. For details about one of my new projects: The walks will also continue to develop around Walking with The Waste Land and will include guest walkers to take a […]
The Twisting Paths of Recall http://elspethpenfold.blogspot.co.uk/2016/11/the-twisting-paths-of-recall-memories.html
An explanation about Quipus and how they fit in with Walking
An explanation An introduction to my use of Quipus, Ropes and Knots as a way of documenting walks
For news about our latest walk using walking as a research process.Please follow the link. These walks have been developing since November 2015 as a part of the research group, A Journey with The Waste Land. We are working towards […]
This is a small, metalpoint-on-gesso, drawing of a tiny photograph I found in a second hand shop in Margate. The photograph, which has ‘Neujahr 1940’ written on the back of it, is about 6cm x 9cm and my drawing is […]
Analyses and calculates the social value created by Turner Contemporary during the gallery’s April 2015–March 2016 financial year.
These works are part of an ongoing series of drawing based on photo booth images of people. These people happen to be my mum and my dad, but the fact they are of my mum and dad is only […]
This is a community based walking group which is using walking as a research tool for locating TS Eliot’s the Waste Land and selected other poems in Margate. Please feel free to join us for our next walk in Margate.
Images of Margate people dressed-up in tasteless costumes at parties or at carnivals is nothing new. This is a drawing based on a postcard image from 1930s’ Margate. It’s part of an ongoing series of drawings of people dressed in […]
I’ve never really had much confidence when it comes to making ‘Art’ and yet somehow I keep on trying. Most of my drawings never reach a point at which I’m happy for them to go out into the world as […]
Two views of a small silverpoint drawing (14.5x21cm) based on a postcard of people in fancy dress (Empire Day?) taken somewhere in Margate in the late 1930s. This is part of an ongoing series of drawings which take postcards of […]
