Lately…
14 November 2016After along hiatus in painting activity around here, I have unpacked some lovely new paints and re-discovered my happy place. Inspired by our French holiday I have added some colour and warmth to my otherwise cold studio. One way to cope is to wear lots of layers – these dungarees are 27 years old! They started […]
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Kims Socks
4 November 2016Fresh off the needles for a certain newly 21 year old – her request – ♡ Happy week-ending x
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Potato printing
27 October 2016I get to dream up lots of fun projects for kids and adults alike as part of my job at MAC which in turn challenges me to keep things fresh, re-visit techniques long forgotten or delve in and learn new ones. And as a part of my Mixed Media Textiles teaching, I played around with some potato […]
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African Flower Crochet blanket
21 October 2016This is the longest W>I>P I’ve ever had but finally my African Flower blanket is done (all but the edging). Back in 2015 while we were mooching about on holiday,  we passed a knitting shop selling off it’s closing down stock. Too good to pass up. I had already inherited a big bag of the dark […]
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Fabric butterflies and moths
17 October 2016There is a big gap forming between what I’m doing each day and the speed I get here to show it! I’ve been busy lately making fabric butterflies and moths for an upcoming MAC workshop. I’m loving the variety of work that teaching Textiles opens up. I have loads of photo reference from my trip here last […]
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Another Place – Antony Gormley
21 September 2016At the weekend I crossed off a Bucket List wish when we visited Crosby Beach in Liverpool. This is the home of Antony Gormley’s Another Place permanent exhibition. Almost all Gormley’s work focusses on the human figure and its relationship to spaces. Here there are 100 cast iron figures set along 3K of beach all […]
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Focus, focus, focus
15 September 2016Todays calendar page is not wrong! After a lovely busy Summer bursting with family affairs, teaching, holidays and other welcome distractions, today is the first day I find myself home alone and able to concentrate. So I picked this interesting Hydrangea flower from the garden and got re-acquainted with my paintbrush. It feels good 🙂
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Fragonard, Grasse
8 September 2016We split our recent holiday in France, into two destinations so that we could cover more of the south coast in the time we were there. I had heard of Grasse being the perfume capital of France (and read that book years ago!) And I also knew that it would be cheaper than any where […]
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Provence, France
31 August 2016Hello poor neglected blog! I came back from me hols and got swamped in work and life related doings but I’m determined to get something up now. We went to the south of France, Provence, for two lovely sunny weeks. I have loved France since the first day I began my French lessons at secondary […]
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