Travelling sketchbook - swirls and curls

The sketchbook I received had a line of mandalas, portals to an inner world...swirls, coils, a circular maze....where would this take me?

As I sat at the hairdresser reading a magazine a day or so later I glanced up, and in the mirror I saw curls and swirls....outer curls and swirls.

What a great thing a tiny notebook is for capturing all manner of thoughts...

That weekend I got out my gelli plate to do some printing including some circular motifs, just to see what happened.

I used an A5 plate and also a round one, which when I stood back a bit, just seemed to beg for a face or two to peep out from the stamped curls. With some sooty black lashes, I was taken back to my original inspiration at the hairdressers: the lowered lashes of ladies being pampered.