This month I have been playing with lino prints. Enjoying the process of cutting, and inking. Reminding me of how much I loved doing etchings at art school. Playing with ‘naive’ images of masks and masked men. Something so satisfying about reproducing an image in multiples. 
A new performance piece was created during the Open Studio’s Event by Gedling Artists at Burton Joyce, Nottinghamshire.
This was a recreation of an actual event which probably happened in 1958 or 1959 when Stephen Jon appeared on stage for the very first time. It was this very same stage at aged 5 or 6 when stephen was dressed in crepe paper by his mother and he recited the nurse rhyme ‘Little Jack Horner’.
In the absence of his mother, this time Stephen was dressed by Sarah Manton, Jess Kemp, Rosie Hobbs and Suzanne Hough.
Photography by Dawn Feeny
Face Casting
Finished Horse
Today I have made a painting in the manner of an vernacular 18th century Race Horse Painter.
Plus a collection of mini hobby-horses.
All for the forthcoming Prosopon Performance at Calke Abbey (11th April 2015)
Five Pieces, Horse, Cow, Ping masks plus Crow and Dove.
For the Calke Abbey Stables project. All made and awaiting final painting.
More animals for Calke Abbey Project. Clay designs begun
House Cow House Pig
The difficulty is to make an animal face sit onto a human face but with the eyes in a similar place. Human eyes in scale are much closer together and generally the human skull is wider proportionally. So some compromises to be made. As I make the designs more abstract, then the differences can become part of the new, human-animal design
Stephen Jon Mask 
