Advance notice of upcoming exhibition: A group of five artists, (Anna Harley, Bess Frimodig, Amanda Hazell, Liz Bird and Martine Baldwin), explore the transient nature of the margin of land between low and high tide.

A program of connected workshops and events will be running on most Saturdays during the exhibition, including a paper-making demonstration by Peter Ford and a reading and book-signing by the recipient of the current T.S.Eliot Prize for poetry, Philip Gross.

A detailed programme of events, times and dates is listed below, as well as a map that shows you how to get to Create. To book yourself in to a workshop, or talk, follow this link to the Create website on http:// create@bristol.gov.uk 

Here are two prints I completed this week for the Littoral:marks from the margins exhibition at Create in Bristol this September; Both images are photographic in origin and screenprinted on to Japanese paper using only the mud from the River Avon as pigment. Your comments and feedback are most welcome!

The first print is of water at high tide and the second of mud at low tide in the New Cut. The New Cut is the body of water that runs between the Create gallery, where the exhibition will be located this September, and Spike Island Print Studio, the studio in which I make my prints. The pedestrian walkway along the New Cut is nicknamed, 'The Chocolate Walk', by the local population, partly because of the colour of the water and partly due to the area's associations with Frys chocolate factory.

More about the New Cut; this is a large canal system that was excavated just over a hundred years ago to absorb the tidal flow and convert the former course of the River Avon from the Floating Harbour. The area has the second highest tidal difference in the world, second only to Nova Scotia, and has a diverse selection of  flora and fauna. Rich in sediment, otters and rare wading birds have recently been spotted in this habitat. Due to the funnel shape, the difference between high and low water can sometimes be up to 15 Metres. This massive movement of water creates turbulent waters carry a heavy load of sediment resulting in a very murky appearance.

The next show I am taking part in, Surface Patterns,  is opening this Friday, 9th July at Centrespace in Bristol. An interesting exhibition with a mathematical focus; I have three pieces in the exhibition - Golden Mistletoe (left) is one of them This is a curated exhibition, showing recent work by a selection of Spike Island printmakers (the studio that I make my prints in).

Information about the exhibition -  Our world is full of shapes which combine to from repeated patterns, ranging from simple structures to perceptual struggles. Spike Print Studio shows that through drawing and use of colour or imagery, pattern can be innovative and interpretive. This exhibition reveals how individual styles can us commercial or craft based approaches to produce pattern as fine art. 

Recent work has just been taken down from the Kulturglimtar exhibition, in Kopparberg, Sweden, this weekend. My agent (mother) has told me sales were good over the weekend - thanks again for all the time and effort you put in to this Mum.

Sorry I couldn't be there as well, it would have been really interesting to meet the other artists taking part and to thank Eva Wilkman in person for inviting me to exhibit with her and for organising the Kulturglimtar event. Looking forward to visiting Kopparberg at the end of the month, though.

It seemed right and proper to exhibit the Copper Birches series in Kopparberg - an old copper mining town in Central Sweden. These prints were made using finely ground copper pigment, artist grade to prevent oxidisation.

What I particularly like about the screen printing process is that you can use any print medium that will fit through the screen mesh. This week I have been working on two photographic images of water and mud - using mud from the river the photographs were taken in. These will form part of a collection of work I am planning to show at the Create Centre in Bristol this September - see Littoral series on website under projects and prints.

I had a lovely time at the Private View of the Society of Women Artist's annual exhibition last Wednesday. I have been invited to become an associate member of the Society, so can now add ASWA after my name!

Thanks to Jan, Dad, Maggie, Robert, Bess and Carmel for coming along to join in the celebrations. It was very interesting to be a part of such an enormous exhibition at such a prestigous galley - and I felt very proud to see my prints hanging alongside work of such a high standard.