Bertie Art

Artist, Printmaker and Drawer. Particularly interested in the natural world, superstition and the museum and archive. www.BertieArt.co.uk

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My latest baking creation, Chocolate and Caramel Ombre Birthday Cake!

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I have been a bit quiet these last couple of months trying to get finished this piece of work, and now finally ‘The Paper Museum Vol. 1’ is finished. I have created  portable museum with 3 accordion books representing the exhibition and a curators notebook. The work explores the containment of objects within the museum context using the subject of ‘Death: Omens and Rituals’. The work uses hand lettering and lino cut printing.

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The Paper Museum is complete! 3 accordion books with 22 prints. This is it at the exhibition 'Interplay' in Cambridge, Changing spaces.

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I've not blogged in a little while, as I am busy making the final adjustments to 'The Paper Museum' volume 1! But a belated Merry Christmas with some home baked Lebkuchen.

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Some objects and items that will be moving in to the 'Paper Museum' with the birds. All of these items are used in rituals around the time of a person's death. Reminds me how much I love working in black and white, it is so effective!

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Some more inhabitants for the 'Paper Museum'. I really like the silhouette shape of the Swallow in the first stage of printing, I think I will have to come back and do more work with this at a later stage.

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Some of the occupants of the 'Paper Museum' I am currently working on. Focusing on superstitious omens and rituals surrounding death.

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Another crochet blanket complete, and keeping my Grandad warm and cosy!

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Homemade bread! So satisfying to bake and eat, yummy!

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Beetroot chocolate brownies ,and a cup of tea in my new Sophie Conran teacup. Delicious!

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Still working on my lino cut barn owl, but I am quite pleased with the drawing I am working from.

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Llwyau caru Cymreig

Welsh Love Spoon lino cut, just another thing I have been playing with while thinking around the ideas of creating collections.

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Some Lino cuts I have been working on this week, using the patterns found in traditional welsh blankets.

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Breakfast muffins! A lovely smell of cinnamon around the house as they were baking, yummy!

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Custard kisses! Sweet biscuits filled with custard cream icing, lots of fun to bake!

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Falconry experience at S&D Falconry, Wooten Park. Seeing the barn owl this close will help with my new owl drawings and lino prints i am currently working on!

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Playing with layering colours and the lino hand collection cuts.