I’ve been commissioned to make a piece using some letter cards written during the 1950s to a young woman based in North Devon. The letter cards are beautifully dainty things and lovely to work with. I used a piece of the original ribbon that the letters were bound in.
More love letters
I’ve made collections of small envelopes using love letters written during World War II. The writer, an aircraft engineer, wrote to his love two or three times a week.
I hope that people who see the work will think that I’ve given the letters a new life.
Love
LOVE, and exhibition with a romantic theme, runs from 1 to 26 February at Atelier Gallery, Barnstaple.
My work includes collections of small envelopes created from original love letters written during World War II. The acrylic valentines shown here use fragments of the letters and hang from coloured ribbons, inspired by the way the original letters were stored.
Luggage labels
I’m working with luggage labels at the moment. I have an old battered suitcase which must have travelled all over the place, each time with a different luggage label attached.
I’m using postcards too – the messages which travellers send home from their holidays.
The new work will be shown during Exeter Open Studios from 5 to 7 November at Mathew’s Hall in Topsham.
Devon Open Studios
Getting ready for Devon Open Studios this weekend (Sat 11 & Sun 12 Sept 2010). I’m exhibiting in Cockwood Village Hall EX6 8NU with three other artists – photographer Roy Adams, watercolourist Tony Bird and printmaker Moragh Brooksbank. My work includes these collections of bundles of postcard fragments.
I’m still hoping to find the family of Joseph Schulist, the America GI whose wartime love letters I’m using to create a new piece of work.
The story was on TV in Wisconsin, but no luck so far. You can watch it on TMJ4 here:http://tiny.cc/3xd28
Joseph Schulist’s letters
I’m looking for the family of Joseph Schulist, an American serviceman in England during World War II. I’m an artist based in Devon, England, and I’ve acquired some letters written by Sgt Schulist which I plan to use in my work and I’d love to know what happened to him. I won’t be publishing the letters, just giving hints at their contents.
Do you think you might be related to him? You can read the story on TMJ4 here: http://tiny.cc/3xd28
Seeking Joseph Schulist
I’m a paper artist currently working with a set of love letters which start around the end of World War II. They’re written by an America GI Sgt Joseph F Schulist 16005837 to a WREN based in England. I’d love to know what happened to Joe; I don’t think the lovers ended up together, but was he happy in the end?
Gillian Taylor 