LINCS IN LOCKDOWN For many years I have wanted to take a year to record the natural world around me, but it wasn’t until Covid spread quickly across the world that the opportunity to do just this was presented to me! As my husband and I began our regulation exercise, spring bloomed and I sketched and made notes of the wonders of the season unfolding. Superimposed over this I recorded numbers of cases, deaths, and the changing regulations.
My three illustrated nature journal sketchbooks were created as Granny’s record for seven grandchildren, but when others said they wanted a copy – my ideas changed. I had the pages scanned in Deeping by ‘Artworksrepro’, and had 200 books self published. They sold in two months and more were printed to sell in local bookshops, gift shops and galleries. It can be purchased at £12.50 direct from me at pcrampinart@gmail.com. Two paintings from the book were exhibited in Peterborough Cathedral – ‘Art Made in Lockdown’ – in February and featured on a stand at the Deepings Literary Festival. Pauline Crampin
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