Anthotypes

I’ve been experimenting making anthotypes since I first discovered the process during lockdown. It is an old photographic process that uses photosensitive material from plants to create an image and was invented in 1842 by Mary Somerville, a Scottish scientist and polymath. An emulsion is made from any part of a plant – berries, petals…

Sketchbooks

I got out of the habit of using a sketchbook. I just started put things down on random pieces of paper instead which I discarded after I’d used the idea. Which meant I had nothing to look back on, no record of what had (or hadn’t) worked.   It was recently when I was looking…