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These were the first designs I made for greeting cards.
I started on these pieces of artwork while I was working as an archaeologist in India. Some of the designs are inspired by carvings on temples and some from rock art drawings in caves. I was very much trying to recreate the joy and exuberance of all the colours in India, especially oranges and pinks. To get the richness of colour I found layers of oil pastels work really well. I start with a pen and ink design, then a colour with a layer of light coloured pastel then add a darker colour on top. This gives a thick layer of pastel which I can then etch into to reveal the colour underneath. The original artwork is about 4 x the size of the cards.
I have been teaching yoga for over 25 years. I often make handouts for my students with little pictures of animals doing Yoga. (Partly I found these easier to draw than humans, and you don’t have to worry about bodyshape or hairstyles). So far I have done Yoga rabbits, cats, frogs, Sloths, elephants, crocodiles and the most challenging one was
The design for these yoga cards came from these handouts. Its nice to have a change from images of skinny women posing around doing challenging yoga poses,
They are great fun to draw. I decided to give them Tshirts with slogans on but none of them wanted to wear any pants!
These designs are all inspired by moments connecting with nature. When we do encounter a wild animal, or bird or even spend time just looking closely at a leaf or seed, time sort of stands still. The picture of the deer in the woody glade was a young deer that I met in a graveyard on the outskirts of Sheffield it was bathed in dappled sunlight and stared at me for a long long time. I teach yoga and am often coming back from classes late at night or leaving early in the morning and see a lot of foxes, so I had to choose a fox for this collection.
I spend a lot of time in the Outer Hebrides and there is nothing better than spending time watching the seals that pop up and say hello, even better when they come and see you when you are having a swim in the sea! The medium I used for these designs is mainly pen and ink outline coloured with watercolour pencils.
Chakras are energy centres, like little roundabouts of energy along the spinal pathway. I find the concept of Chakras very helpful to understanding how our physical, mental, energetic and spiritual levels of being all interact and interelate.
There is a lot of symbolism in the traditional drawing of Chakras.
The drawings are Yantras, a way of depicting energy in a geometric form.
The chakras are drawn as flowers of different colours and numbers of petals.
Each chakra is associated with a different element: Earth. Water, Fire, Air and Space. These elements represent matter in different forms from the more solid , Earth, to the most subtle form of matter Space. Yoga philosophy and modern physics do agree that most of matter is in fact the vibration of energy in space.
I found using soft pastel on a black background helps to create an impression of energy and light.
These cards are all inspired by the magic of the north east.
I grew up in Whitley Bay and now divide my time between, Newcastle, Sheffield and the Outer Hebridies!
I did all the North East designs during lockdown in 2020. All the artwork I did that year was on a black background. I found that every mark I made on the paper with any other colour then looked like light. So there is an underlying theme here of ‘finding light in the darkness’.
All the designs feature a night sky. In the night sky I have used geometric patterns, particularly one sacred geometry design called the ‘the flower of life’. This use of sacred geometry represents the cosmos and can also be a celebration of North east nightlife in all its forms!
The medium I use is soft pastel highlighted with white ink on black card.
Christmas cards to send peace, love and xmas magic.
