What am I up to: The Fruitmarket Fair IV

My final revealer book has lovely pigeons and today I have one in the porch recovering and getting ready to be released. I have to say I am not happy about releasing it into the storm.

What am I up to: The Fruitmarket Fair III

Above is a crow revealer book being made and below is one of the crows when it is folded, and then when it is extended so you can see what it has eaten, a nice juicy worm in this happy crow.

What am I up to: The Fruitmarket Fair II

Days start early in my studio, and as the sun rises, I have a visitor who knocks on my velux window to say he has arrived and I go out to feed the animals; currently one seagull, one rabbit, four chickens and a black cat.

I love my wild gull, he gets very demanding in the spring when he has young, but the reward is that their maiden flights are always over to our roof. The rest of the year he is an ever-present beauty and wonder, a silent companion standing patiently on the glass above my head.
I had to make revealer gulls their expandable crops make them the perfect muses.
The starfish image I did actually see, as a gull gulped two starfish down one after another and I could see the shape of them in the bird's gullet.

These images make me smile, I hope you like them too. Books, cards, and posters will be on sale at The Fruitmarket Gallery on Saturday and Sunday and they are slowly making it into my website shop as well.

Revealer books

I have been frantically and excitedly creating mini ' revealer books, tiny folded images with secrets and now as I develop them there are series emerging, mainly about insects and spiders. It is such a simple 'book' form but so much fun can be had by hiding things in folds of paper. You can see more on my Facebook page.