Winter Wood

Original painting on easel.

Closeup of painting.

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Original painting is 30x40cm (11x16") acrylic on canvas with wire crochet trees.

The print is available in various sizes, as poster, greeting cards, framed, mounted and canvas prints.

Print of painting availabel on Redbubble and DeviantArt.

Stop the Clocks

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Image created for the 1/52 project (20/52) from my own photographs.

This is about the Victorian tradtion of covering mirrors and stopping clocks with a death in the house. I presume the latter was to establish and record time of death, the former, covering the mirrors, is supposed to prevent the departing soul from becoming trapped in the mirror. There is a similar tradition in Jewish religion, however in this case it is to remind us that we are more than our physical bodies and to leave vanity behind and remember our souls.

Words are from my poem Night Songs:

"gone from sight
but not from mind
like a prisoner
forgotten
rotting
in a damp cell"

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Cambridge Triptychs

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From my Cambridge series, taken with Hipstamatic. Exclusive to Redbubble.

A juxtaposition of grungy urban texture and the lovely countryside. There’s a town and gown thing going on between the university of Cambridge and the town itself.

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From my Cambridge series, taken with Hipstamatic. Exclusive to Redbubble.

I have a thing about textures and how some textures seem to have symbolic meanings, almost like a secret language. When you walk on the edge there’s no knowing what you may find…

The first one is a pathway through the park. The path on one side, the grass just on the edge of the other side.

The bottom left picture is of broken glass by the side of a pub.

The final image is a broken sticker on a lamp post. The part of the sticker torn off had the shape of a wolf, which I found amusing because the sticker was about dogs (or rather their leftovers….) :-)

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From my Cambridge series, taken with Hipstamatic. Exclusive to Redbubble.

Another juxtaposition of urban grunge to lovely countryside. This time it was more about colour and texture.

The top image is of the Cambridge countryside which is extraordinarily pretty in the sunshine.

The other two images are textures I found on a wooden wall built around a building site.

Currently there’s a huge building boom going on in Cambridge and a lot of the pretty countryside is vanishing.

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From my Cambridge series, taken with Hipstamatic. Exclusive to Redbubble.

These were chance shots. The first is a house number on a fence. I am never sure if 66 is a lucky number or the devil’s number….?

The other two shots are from a building site again. I thought they worked with the luck. Sometimes luck is not enough and you need to follow the rules to be safe. :-)

All images in this series (Cambridge Collection) are available EXCLUSIVELY on Redbubble as prints, cards, posters and framed or mounted prints.

Wildlife (and not so wild) in the Garden

Four little black birds in a nest...  

 ... and the bucket cat. LOL 

My cat loves sleeping in a bucket in this heat. Seems to keep him cool. 

The little black birds were so noisy, that's how I knew there was a nest and found it.

Ripples and Wave

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This image was inspired by my poem Ripples and by one of my favourite images ever, Hokusai's Wave.

This is about the way childhood affects us and how at the oddest moments, when we least expect it, certain aspects of our childhood hit us and make us vulnerable. The way we are brought up, the way we’re raised and what happens to us in childhood are influential on who we are as adults and, personally I think, that this is never more true than for women, especially emotionally, stereotypes we have grown up with will affect us in adulthood even when we have rejected them.

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Words my own from my poem Ripples

The End

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This is an image originally created for my licensing portfolio. I mixed it up a bit and added a snippet from one of my poems to create this. Here's the poem no happy endings.

See the licensing image on Arcangel-Images - use this code: SYST-0211

Created with my own photographs and my own words in Photoshop, no stock used.

  All my licensing images are available on Redbubble, Artflakes and Bluecanvas as prints, cards, posters, skins for laptops, Blackberry, iPhones and other phones (for the skins go to Bluecanvas).

Tristesse

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A sort of Jack the Ripper's London version of Cambridge. :-) Part of my new series of images for licensing on Arcangel-Images - use this code: SYST-0224

Created with my own photographs in Photoshop, no stock used.

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Remnants

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Dedicated to my friend Ali who died a year ago.

Words from my poem (also dedicated to Ali) New Beginnings.

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Is There?

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Just wondering....

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Words my own, from the poem "Is There A Place?"

The Skins We Shed

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One of my images (of my forget-me-not meadow that used to be my lawn) and words from one of my poems, Seasons.

We shed so many skins throughout our lives... this is spring but the hint of winter is still in the air and summer is not far away. Autumn is just a dream.

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Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer, do

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This is a slightly different version from the one I created for licensing. It reminded me of the nursery rhyme 'Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer, do'.

Part of my new series of images for licensing on Arcangel-Images - use this code: SYST-0221

Created with my own photographs in Photoshop, no stock used.

All my licensing images are available on Redbubble, Artflakes and Bluecanvas as prints, cards, posters, skins for laptops, Blackberry, iPhones and other phones (for the skins go to Bluecanvas).

New Book Cover Design - Elemental Rising

 

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Here's the new book cover design I've been working on. The book is available for Kindle on Amazon here. You can find more info about this book and the previous in the series at the author's blog: Maddy Edwards.

I love doing book covers, so, if you are interested in a professionally done book cover for you eBook, POD, or Kindle, contact me and we can sort out the details.

Hyacinth Memory

 

 

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A hyacinth on the mantle piece in my living room. I loved the way it was reflected in the mirror. Hyacinths are just so pretty and smell lovely. I always have lots of them around because they're so cheerful after the winter. 

Part of my new series of images for licensing on Arcangel-Images - use this code: SYST-0222

Created with my own photographs in Photoshop, no stock used.

Love Me, Do

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Picture of one of my necklaces. When I first saw this in a shop on Etsy I couldn't resist the whimsy of it. :-)

Part of my new series of images for licensing on Arcangel-Images - use this code: SYST-0218

Created with my own photographs in Photoshop, no stock used.

Perfume

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I love perfume and like books it's something I find hard to resist. There are bottles all over the house, partly because often the bottles themselves are so pretty, partly because I am a nose person.... There is something so sensual about perfume...

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Spring at the Allotment

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Spring Onions from the Allotment.

Before and after a proper wash. :-)

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Bound IV

 

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The final in the series. Sometimes even tears aren't enough....

No one was hurt when I took this picture. :-)

Created with my own photographs and bought stock in Photoshop.

Bound III

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Part 3 of the series.

Some crimes are just too big to be hidden, they'll always shine through, and they always keep us bound. 

Again, no one was hurt in the taking of this image. All 'bloody' effects including the plastic sheet were added in Photoshop through textures.

Part of my new series of images for licensing on Arcangel-Images - use this code: SYST-0217

Created with my own photographs and bought stock in Photoshop.

Jellyfish Triptych and Print

My latest project. 

 Three 20x20 cm canvasses, interlinked with rope which gives them an all over length of roughly 70 cm. Each of the jellyfish has been crocheted in very thin copper gunmetal paint coated wire. The canavasses have been painted with acrylic paint, matt and glossy varnish to replicate water reflections. 

This is a completely original work and available in my Etsy shop for sale.

 Jellyfish top.

 Jellyfish middle.

 Jellyfish bottom.

 Detail of bottom jellyfish.

If you can't afford the original right now, there's a diptych print of two of the jellyfish from the painting. You can get it from my Redbubble page.

Bound II

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Second in the series. Sometimes the scars are on the outside, sometimes they're visible, but most of us are bound by the things that happened in our past and it affects our future.

Please note, no one was hurt in the taking of this image. All the effects - blood, scratches etc - were added afterwards in Photoshop.

Created with my own photographs in Photoshop and my own or bought stock.