June

Busy on lots of fronts - but as ever, never getting enough painting done. The season has settled somewhat now, the period of new and dramatic growth (birdwise anyway) has ended and everything is starting to bed down for (what will hopefully be) the long hot summer. Birds are singing less now, and most birds are hiding away.

I've just completed DOF Bornholm's new logo. Their brief was 'make it a razorbill', so you couldn't really get any more simple than that. Actually, the razorbill's black and white plumage lends itself very well to a graphic logo, and straight away I had the idea to make the border between the razorbill's white breast and its black wings follow the contour of Bornholm's coastline - a neat device which meant I could play around a bit with creating a simultaneous dissolving representational forms (which I like doing anyway) and also incorporate a map of Bornholm, which is a logo in its own right... Here are some early images:

And the final logo...

I'm also spending time preparing for a printmaking exhibition where I will be showing a few works. I'm going to be doing some linocuts and am really excited to get stuck into them.

Lastly, I'm hoping to spend a bit of time drawing and sketching at a cement factory called PLBeton, here on Bornholm. It's a fascinating place where fabricated mouldings are created and filled with cement. Visually the place is stunning with strange concrete forms lying around in stacks, sheets of rusty steel grids and piles of aggregates. Inside the cavernous main hall shafts of light strike concrete dust. Sadly, PL beton will be closing down soon, one of the last of the old industrial sites here on Bornohlm. More soon...