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One of the things I’ve been doing during lockdown is reworking old pieces and using material I already have. Hence some altered postcards – posting a few here. More on my website which has never been so up to date.

I don’t know if this was a good use of time/paint. The plan is to send hand-painted postcards to everyone I can’t see but would have done, or would have intended to, if it wasn’t for coronavirus. I’ve made sure […]

These are off to the Devonshire Collective Postcard show – continuing the theme of gardens. Having a thematic focus lets me try out lots of different approaches, which I like.

DHL messaged to say my postcards were arriving today and Marc the Printers emailed to tell me my booklets would be ready for collection at 10am today. I updated my DHL information saying they could leave the package in the […]

Just thought I’d put up an image of my postcards showing as part of the Devonshire Collective postcard show, in Eastbourne, to celebrate their first anniversary. Thank you to Judith Alder for the photo.

I decided to sort the postcards chronologically, using the postmark or handwritten date to order them.  The first set was easy to order by date, and I then scanned both front and back of the postcards onto the computer.  I […]

I decided that I wanted to incorporate ephemera into my work, so I bought two sets of used postcards from Ebay.  The first set of 40 addressed to Mr and Mrs Benbrow , has 28 postcards which have been sent, […]

I have just finished a couple of small collage pieces incorporating images cut from postcards. I think they are quite successful and in line with the way I work – which is to experiment and play with stuff first and then […]

Museum of Contemporary Rubbish is participating in an Arts & Trash event organised by Flora Hochrein of the University of Leeds. Postcards of selected items from the Leeds Collection will be available for visitors. Exhibit #0245 Thursday 4 June 2015, […]