Illustrative and innovative

My "crinklies"

This is series that I started work to on during early 2016. Mixed media on paper, for I had to do some preparation - to get the texture I wanted, I had to wet and crinkle the papers - hence the oh-so-professional term, 'my crinklies'.

It's a Royal Academy level skill: crinkling.

There's a strong flavour of the sea - both the magic within it, and the hard work that takes place upon it.

Crinklies that have been sold

These are here just to give you an impression of the variety of contents and almost-magically hidden elements within.

My book and its drawings

Before moving from North Wales I had become enthusiatically involved in pen & ink drawing, using skills that had long underpinned my ceramics work. My old friend, the late Mick Casson, used to say that he felt he could judge from a person's ceramics whether they had ever been any good at drawing - he felt that it underpinned everything.

Having arrived in Shropshire, I became deeply involved for two or three years in the creation of my book of drawings, "Maggie Humphry's Shropshire". It took me out into the woods, valleys, and hills of this beautiful county - and took me out of myself.
I spent many hours sitting on my fold-up stool in farmyards, fields, and gardens.

The lower four images gave visual support to the pages where I wrote my notes about the pictures and about the circumstances surrounding them.

Other drawings