This week at college - textile printing

It's reading week - no "classes". We didn't have classes last week either, but did have a session with the external examiner - a half hour, attendance optional, to give him feedback about how we are finding the course, the tutors, the college. He writes and submits a report, hopefully to get action on the points raised.

Apart from that, last week and this, I have been spending as much time as possible doing screenprinting, in the final weeks that this facility is available.

Several projects are on the go - the fabric for "travel bags" -

"pathways" printed on cartridge paper, to be used for tiles - this is "just an idea" under development -

"newsprint sheets" to be waxed and/or further printed with stamps etc -

random, spontaneous stuff on cartridge -

envelopes - both printing the envelope and using the shapes as negative space

and lately, scrolls - with "windows" that are actually samples of fabric laid down and printed

Keeping track of which project(s) I'm working on at the same time is confusing. I go home with rolls of this and stacks of that. It's all mounting up and there will come a time when I spend regular hours in the studio again, turning it into "books" of some sort.

The fulltimers are constantly having "catalogue meetings" to prepare for their degree show ... September will soon be here -

These are the last weeks of using the basement studio, with its crumbling floor and gurgling sink - neither of which you can see in the photo. In the Great Reorganisation, we'll leave this 1880s school behind and move into other rooms in the 1970s building at the end of the month.