It has been a while since I updated my blog because my 88 year old mother broke her leg at the end of November and I spent a long time running around in circles tending to her needs.
However, things are now returning to normal and with a recent walking holiday in Tasmania where I took many photos to inspire my art I am again making progress.
I think that I have contracted a severe case of "lichenitis." Images of lichen fill my head. I gasp with delight each time I encounter a new variety. My husband shakes his head and rolls his eyes but I am hooked. I just had not been aware of the diversity of form, shape and texture that exists. They are marvellous those little lichens.
If aliens were looking down on us when we were walking in Tasmania they would be wondering what this dishevelled looking woman with a gleam in her eye was doing crouching down and peering myopically at rocks for minutes on end then spending more minutes with a camera and macro trying to capture all of the intricate and microscopic details. They may begin to wonder at the sanity of the human race. So did I when my fingers became numb with the cold, but I just could not stop. The water dripped off my nose, my husband rolled his eyes some more....
Back home......, sanity has reasserted itself briefly. I have been trawling through my images and deciding how I want to use and re-interpret them. I have already started on a series of drawings. None of them are finished yet (see below). I have started some lino cuts and collagraph plates and have ideas for a series of paintings too.
Lets just hope that Mum does not break the other leg any time soon.
