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I am taking part in a bookmark project called Bookmarks 8 – Escaping the Library System. It is organised by the people at the Centre for Fine Print at UWE in Bristol. All the artists involved make 100 bookmarks and then they are divided into packs and distributed to venues for people to pick up for free.

Here’s my contribution to the project – pylon bookmarks!

I wanted to try out some embroidery on the sewing machine and this is what I came up with. Still work in progress I think.

paper cut-out pylons

Photographs of some pylons I made recently. A lot of people aren’t that into pylons but I think they make great lines. They criss-cross all over the place and they frame the landscape with all kinds of unusual shapes. Let’s hear it for pylons!

Here’s some pictures of a little book I just finished. The cover is embroidered felt and the inside is hand-drawn with markers, pens, pencil, watercolour paint and colouring pencils.

The Earth is a bit like this Blue Dot. A book of general musings about human evolution and the problems associated with consciousness.

Really though, its just some black and white line drawings and some blue dots stapled together. It comes in a handy size of about 14 x 14 cm.

Brains or cockroaches – who would win in a doomsday scenario?

“I’d like to thank my brain” for all human success and suffering

This is a book I made at the end of 2008. I have showed it in a couple of exhibitions (Winding Stair Bookshop and Across the Way Studios Christmas Show). Each page is a real building in Dublin.

A bunch of Cardboard Press handmade notebooks made during 2009. Most of them were sold at various fairs and markets.

Thread, paint and cardcollage notebooks