recent works on washi (Japan-paper) April 2024

a collaborative project to do with the art making process featuring a new Poem by Post, published by Community of Poets & Artists Press (see images) and a short poem film (see link below):

Delighted to see my poem from the film neap tide published in issue 41 of The French Literary Review, editor Barbara Dordi, with thanks and good wishes, here’s the poem and film link:

neap tide

we bring beginnings

from a moorland life

bless and overlook

this silvery sea

hag-stone, pebble, snail

her rocks green-like weed

smooth, flat, velvet fur

we lay our clothes here

by steep pebble-slide

saltiness, breath, breeze

to deep warming sea

in wind and in rain

from every neap tide

on imagined lengths

stretching out for France

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neap tide

At the water margin, monotype, water-mixable oil, on japanese paper

a series of monotypes on japanese paper

very pleased that our short film The Dancers is selected for an award at the Aasha film festival

The film can be previed here: https://youtu.be/xK4VPQn-Vbk

a week in the studio, here’s some work

Walmer, 2023

Following my first Monotype Walmer, here is the next one. I made the work today using a copper plate, water mixable ink, and an etching press, printing onto Somerset paper, producing this unique print.

I spent a pleasant morning working on this small monotype (18cm x 13cm) based on recent drawings, along this special stretch of coastline, at Walmer, Kent. I may work on a series of these monotype studies…

These unique prints (U/P) are inspired by my move from Cornwall to the Kent coast, at Walmer, UK.
I carry a sense of place; bringing memory of moorland life, its light and dark skies, landscape, streams, on this return journey, to where I see the French coast, on most days, once again. I have used carborundum to make the studies. The plate is inked up, put through an etching press, to make the strong black and whites and gradually, subtle light and darks. I am attracted to the Carborundum technique, invented in the 1930’s – it holds a resonance for me in the arts and poetry pamphlet-making.

15 ink & watercolour drawings

ink and watercolour drawing for today

Tool Cupboard, ink and watercolour on paper, Philip R. Bennetta 10 September, 2023

warming up with watercolour drawings

The Birch Tree in our garden at Walmer, Kent UK – we’ve been here for nearly a year!

The Birch tree is a pioneer species, one that colonised Britain after the Ice Age, giving it a symbol of rebirth and new beginnings. It is a sacred tree in Celtic mythology, and thought to have highly protective influences.

the latest project, featuring 21 ink and watercolour drawings on postcards…

So pleased to have our recent collaborative project published in the French Literary Review, Issue 40, Edited by Barbara Dordi.

A Poem by Post published today by Community of Poets & Artists Press, as a 2nd edition, to mark 25 years of the series.

celebrates with a second edition of one of its first Poem by Post publications

The original lithograph, which featured in the 1998 publication of Her Face, a poem by Michael Curtis with Lithograph by Philip Bennetta, was re-set in its frame in 2023 by Hann-Harr Framing, Hythe, Kent. UK and re- photographed for a second (2023) limited edition, published soon. Here is the lithograph, Into Every Dream

we’re all at sea, ink and watercolour on card (12) Philip Bennetta, 2023

we’re all at sea, ink and watercolour on card (10), Philip Bennetta, 2023

hag-stone, adder, sailors charm – stones with holes, found in the garden, Walmer, Kent

printmaking is full of surprises and happy accidents!

paper tree (3), digital monochrome image, Philip R. Bennetta, 17 March 2023

(happy birthday dear Tess, aged two today)