by heather | Jun 22, 2015 | Blog
MY APOLOGIES – THIS BLOG SHOULD BE BEFORE THE CREMATORIUM COMMISSION. The opening party of the Antwerp Art Festival was great fun and the following three days were then open to the public. I got some really good reactions to the tactile paintings and it was...
by heather | Jun 22, 2015 | Blog
Many years ago I worked in the office at Portchester Crematorium. A few years later, one of my colleagues went on to build Crematorias and in 2008 he commissioned me to make a piece of art for the new build Three Counties Crematorium in Braintree, Essex. The work...
by heather | Jun 21, 2015 | Blog
I had worked on some great commissions. Over the next year or so I showed work at the County Hall In London, The Helen Keller awards in Glasgow, Chichester Tactile Exhibition, Llandudno and Belgium. The opportunity to show out of the country sounded exciting,...
by heather | Jun 20, 2015 | Blog
I am going to jump forward a few years from 2007 to 2011 because the following is associated with the Mary Rose commission and it seems a natural follow on. I received a letter from the Westminster Coin Company. It read, ” Your tactile copy of the 16th century...
by heather | Jun 19, 2015 | Blog
I arrived at the Mary Rose Museum with my painting and was taken into the Board room. The painting was unwrapped and handed to Charlie the Blind Volunteer. At that stage no-one else could see the picture. He felt his way around the painting and then told all the...
by heather | Jun 18, 2015 | Blog
It took me four months to build up the plaster work on the tactile painting of the Mary Rose ship, often using the tiniest brushes normally used to paint miniatures. Prior to painting, the white plaster relief work of the ship was almost ghostly. I must admit I...
