"A ziggurat of balls of porcelain clay to my left..."

{Collage for The World of Interiors.}

A recent commission is now in print and the feeling is glorious and surreal tied up together with ribbon yellow chuffed. Though I have yet to lay my mitts upon a printed copy, I have perused the online version on my iPhone. There, upon the last page it is!
 
In the current November issue of The Word of Interiors, you can see my collage made especially to accompany a written piece by Edmund de Waal. (Time on His Hands, Journal of a Ceramic Artist, p. 200)
 
Many, many thanks Mark. To work on a collage for your good self is always a terrific challenge to relish.

+ A look at two earlier Journal of a... collages: The Genuine Article (2009) and Greeks Bearing Gifts (2008)


{The current edition of The World of Interiors, November 2012. (Cover image details)}

To arrive at this collage took many turns. Here is a little look at (some of) the works that led to the final piece.








{All part of the idea process.}
 
+ Revealing volumes — literally, hypothetically — Mark Lazenby shows us his Bookshelf: “This is what I want to do in my work; make the invisible visible and create worlds from the fragments. The internal becoming external in the act of creating an artwork and imbuing pieces of paper with feelings and energy.” (It’s Nice That)

+ Soup of the evening, beautiful Soup! Soup of the evening, beautiful Soup! Beau—ootiful Soo—oop!: Views from yesterday's sunny Sunday opening. Louise and I take you with us to see Beautiful Soup, a print exchange folio and exhibition curated by Rona Green. The exhibition at St Heliers Store + Gallery runs until Sunday the 4th of November, 2012.