Abit of my own stuff

I've just realised its been a long time since I posted my own artwork on here, and in the last couple of months I have done a few pieces that i am really happy with, so I thought i'd share them

Haunted Air

I recieved the most beautiful book yesterday, 'Haunted Air' by Ossian Brown, A collection of Anonymous Hallowe'en photographs, America 1875-1955.

It has a stunning black fabric cover and the photos are reproduced perfectly in their original size.
Its such a stunning book.

"The photographs in Haunted Air provide an extraordinary glimpse into the traditions of this macabre festival from ages past, and form an important document of photographic history. These are the pictures of the dead: family portraits, mementoes of the treasured, now unrecognisable, other. Torn from album pages, sold piecemeal for pennies and scattered, abandoned to melancholy chance and the hands of strangers."
-The Random House Group











I hugely recomment that you buy this treasure of a book

New Additions to my Photo Collection

I have 3 new additions to my Vintage Photo Collection, the first two I bought for 50p each from an Antiques market in Oxford, the third one is an Etsy find

This one is a Christmas card with the message handwritten on the back, I find it so beautiful



This one seems to be a little novelty picture done at seaside resorts where you had a photograph taken with your weight on the top as you stand on Scales, kinda weird, but I guess people weren't so bothered by their weight in those days



and finally a print from an old glass negative of a dead child

Flea Market Finds

went to my favourite flea market this morning, picked up some more pictures for the collection, didn't spot any unrecognised postmortems, but that hardly ever happens, anyway here is what I did buy, I particularly love the family group with the terrifying woman sat at the front

Family Album

Here is something I made whilst scanning in some old family pictures, I was just fiddling around with the idea of an old album page.
I love the big frames/pages around these portraits, I think they may be brother and sister

New pictures

I bought two new pictures from an antique shop in Malvern last week, They're very pretty and will definately come in useful for my work
This one has such a hugh, awesome frame, I just had to get it

And I liked the more delicate frame around this one


And here are afew more from my collection that I had forgotten about and unearthed from the depths of my student room
These two boys will be appearing in my work very soon,

And I love this one of Indian siblings, taken in 1925, I love how happy they look, and they're dusty raggedy clothes make a change from my usual super rich children in furs and jewels

French Photograph Album

I got a Victorian Photo Album for christmas, it's from France and belonged to Mr and Mrs Marcel Breton, its a wonderful album, full of great pictures of children and a fantastic postmortem photograph of what i would guess is one of the couples daughters, i think some of the other pictures are of her during her life, but its hard to tell, as the postmortem isn't a clear face shot, i think the chubby dark haired girl may be the one who died.

Bedlam

Here are some really incredible photographs of patients from Londons Bethlam Royal Hospital also known as 'Bedlam' taken in the 1800s by Henry Hering