I am currently away on a short break in Osaka, Japan - my son is spending a year at university here - but thought I should drop you line to let you know about a couple of showcase events I'll be taking part in after my return to the UK next week.
On March 17th I will be attending the wedding fayre at Caswell House in Oxfordshire, one of my favourite undiscovered wedding venues, and the following week I will showing my work at Confex. I have attached an invitation for Confex (which takes place at the Excel Centre in London) where I'll be sharing a stand with my magician colleague Jon Allen. It would be great to see you at either event if you felt like popping in.
In both Japan and the UK I often meet people who are surprised by the variety of portrait silhouettes which can be cut. Even those who are familiar with the art - a great many are not - tend to assume that all silhouettes are of the simple head-and-shoulder 'cameo' style; they are quite surprised when I suddenly produce a full-length, double, or caricature-style portrait. To help in changing this perception I have created a slide show of cuttings made at events over the last year or so, and have made it available as a video on YouTube:
The video lasts just over 6 minutes, I hope you enjoy it! I would be grateful for an feedback you may have - the plan is to add it to the front page on my website if it seems to work OK.
