Description
When I was a child I used to play a ‘Bird Lotto’ game with my best friend Caroline. My two favourite birds on the boards were the Nuthatch and the Linnet. I’ve now seen a nuthatch in the wild but have still never caught sight of a Linnet even though I understand they are present on the coastal path here at Portishead. Maybe one day…
The original painting will come mounted on a black wooden cradled board frame. The overall size is 8 x 8 inches
My paintings are mainly painted on pure Chinese habotai 8 silk with specialist silk paints. I start each work with a drawing on paper and then trace the image onto a piece of white silk stretched onto a wooden frame. I then apply a special paint called gutta, which contains natural latex called gutta-percha, over my traced lines. This creates a resistive barrier through which the coloured ink will not flow. I apply the coloured ink with a brush and use salt dropped into the ink whilst wet to created textured effects.
The finished painting is removed from the wooden frame, ironed to fix the colour in the fabric and stretched onto acid-free mountboard ready for framing.
