So I’ve decided on the lips and zips motif for verbal expression but pairs of lips in isolation won’t tell this story. I need the lips to be saying something. In my mouth research on Pinterest, I came across an image of ‘Visemes’ which are images of the shape of our lips when we’re saying…
I realise I wasted a whole lot of time cutting out the lips and fitting in the zips just to see if it looked like a mouth when I was only really testing one material – leatherette. A far better use of my time would be to prepare a swatch of a variety of materials…
Having covered tactile sensory dysfunction in my Polyester Makes Me Panic series of prints, it’s now time to tackle verbal expression. If you go along to any ASD community group, the first question the parent beside you is likely to ask is: ‘is your child verbal?’ not ‘do you have a boy or a girl?”…
I do not have a background in visual arts. I am a storyteller by trade, usually words, sometimes data. I interview people and help them articulate what they want or need to say. I trawl through thousands of rows of raw data and spot patterns and the stories that they tell. In April 2021, in…
I may have mentioned somewhere on this site that I did a part-time course in printmaking at Gorey School of Art. I’ve always loved prints as an art form and justified taking five hours off on a Thursday to attend because it might be a new avenue to explore with my greeting cards. The thing…
