Butterflies for Crickhowell Craft Fair

I am really looking forward to the Crickhowell Craft Fair on Saturday, 23rd November.

 

I have got my butterfly prints all framed and ready, and am looking forward to showing them off. Here are spring and summer,

and autumn and winter.

Wouldn't it be great if the Clarence Hall was thronged with butterfly loving haiku enthusiasts!

Hope springs infernal, as my old Granny used to say.

Crickhowell Christmas Craft Fair,

Clarence Hall, Crickhowell.

23rd November.

10am - 3.30pm

Butterflies. Haiku. Printing.

I found a beautiful scruffy book, published in 1945, with wonderful prints of butterflies, and decided to give them a different life. I've been looking for a way to present some haiku, and the butterflies looked ideal.

First, to decide, from the 12 plates in the book, which butterflies best represent each season. Then I printed the name of the season in gold, and my haiku in black. I am very pleased with the result. Here's summer

and autumn

Printing on old paper gives a really lovely impression. Paper from the 1940s is rough and very nice, and the colours fantastic. I also like paper from the early 20th century. Here's my washing line, which is transformed into a flight of poetic butterflies.

So now I have two sets of four seasons, and will put them in frames to take to craft fairs that are coming up in December!