Ellie's Fine Art Foundation Degree

        Inspired by my trip to Dale Abbey - I began experimenting with written words texts, initials, playing with marks - scrawling writing , more precise bold lettering, I worked from photos of names and initials carved into the stone drawing them onto sheets of acetate and then projecting them onto the rubbings I had taken from Chesterfield and the Hermitage - playing around with how the two different ways information interacts with each other.                                                               More work inspired by the graffiti at the Hermitage- gel plate prints - experimenting with overlapping letters - using the gel plate and letting the acrylic paint partially dry on the plate created this worn faded effect -                       ...

 I wanted to make my own brass rubbings - they stopped the public from making monumental brasses in churches in 1974 as the process could damage the plate- but they're are brass rubbing centers - I was going to go to the one in London but couldn't with the train strikes. Instead I experimented with layering collage scraps to - stitching into bit to produce interesting textures                                                                              I liked the idea of making my own plate / materials to take rubbings from - so I engraved an image of a brass rubbing from my book onto a piece of Lino using a laser cutter , just as a test- id need to use a higher quality image next time to get a more detailed engraving but it turned out pretty well. It felt very precious to have m...

I went to visit the remains of Dale Abbey and the Hermitage in the town of Dale, which is just a bit outside of Ilkeston. Having seen some pictures of the Abbey's window in the Erewash museum. It is believed that a baker from Derby around the mid 12th century had a vision of the virgin Mary and was instructed to go to Dale or Depedale as it was originally known nd worship in solitude. This started a tradition of worship in Dale and the Abbey was established in 1199. After much of the Abbeys, possessions were sold off or installed into other churches- St Matthews church in Morley have some of the stain glass.                           Views as I walked towards the Window   Only the east window remains- the landscape around the window is very flat making this huge monument even more imposing - grandness.                                Then I...