Sculpture: an amble down Memory Lane

These are sculptures I made in the '70s. The paler ones (the first six images) are plaster. All the others are welded steel. I haven't looked at these photographs for ages. It therefore comes as something of a surprise to find a good deal of continuity between them and the collages I have been working on for the last twelve months or so. I'm afraid the images have taken a bit of a pasting over the years so they aren't as crisp and clear as I would like but I've cleaned them up as best I can.

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Birthdays

These seven little cards are sentimental gems. Though the words on the front and the rhymes inside may not appeal to contemporary tastes, they serve as an indicator of how important a place birthdays occupy in the world. Quite right too. The colour illustrations are superb.

Vintage magazines: My Home

I thought it was worth scanning the entire magazine and posting it here. It gives such a rich flavour of the post-war world, a style and ethos which continued well into the '50s. As well as the broader cultural interest, the illustrations and typography are worth a particularly good look. For all that they often strike one as comical now, the illustrations are by and large high quality and skilful. The typography, especially in the titles and banners, employs an extraordinary range of fonts and layouts. Quite austere sans serif fonts appear side by side with extravagantly curvy ones, full of curlicues and flourishes.

In a contemporary world where nearly everything is presented in full colour, the limited use of colour in My Home (inside/outside covers and centre-fold) give it tremendous impact. The advertisements inside the front and back cover and outside back cover are each little masterpieces and have certainly stood the test of time. The illustrated cover is a peach.

Garden foliage

It's one of the many pleasures of gardens that foliage and flowers are both parts of the same equation - unlike so many other things, you don't have to choose one over the other ... so lucky us.