May ~ Taynish Art Trail ~ The Net
Taynish Mill is now the most obvious evidence of historic human habitation in this area, at times you can pick up a fleeting feeling of the lives lived in this area. Of the human essence still caught up in the trees and set in the stones. Original mock up image of the Net proposal My […]
May ~ Lino Printing workshop
The last Bank Holiday in May saw me heading to Fife and South Queensferry again for another wee workshop at the Harbour Lane Studio. This time it was Lino Printing. Last year for my birthday mum and dad gave me a lino printing kit, which sat in its box, all pristine and clean, until shortly […]
February – Stained Glass Workshop
Crossing the Moss. Fresh from the excitement of the Cambridgeshire weekend, I was off again the following weekend to another workshop. I went to tinker, or perhaps that should be tinkle, with glass. This time though, it was local so I was able to travel from home. It was a beautifully sunny, cold and frosty […]
May ~ W.R.E.N.S.
The day before my exhibition preview evening I went to a local beautician to have my nails done. My hands were in a bit of a state, skin stained blue black from all the sea and sky I had been painting, nails a bit chipped and out of shape. I had won a raffle prize […]
May ~ Screenprinting Workshop
Having enjoyed the workshops at the start of the year, when a friend said she was going to a couple being run in South Queensferry I said sign me up too! They were being held at the Harbour Lane Studio in South Queensferry. It is a really lovely little gallery that is a rather like […]
April – Alpacas!
Once my exhibition work was completed, the show was open, and I was back from having been whisked away to Edinburgh for a surprise birthday weekend. I could get started with a few more of the commissions that I had had to put on hold for a while. One of them was to include Alpacas. […]
May ~ Taynish Art Trail ~ The Sail
My submission for this piece said that I wanted to create a collaborative piece working with my father, combining art and literature, the stitched and the printed, the written and the spoken word. The stone Poetry seat Already identified as a wonderful spot for sitting & looking, standing and staring, it inspires the writing and […]
March-April ~My First Solo Exhibition!
I don’t want to be defined as being solely a Carer, I have finally, in the last year or so, allowed myself to admit to being, and, also allow myself to be, an artist. However, as I am both, combining the two it felt very appropriate to have my first solo art exhibition at the […]
Making Winter Retreat
Just recently I went on a ‘Making Winter Creative Retreat’ https://silverpebble.net/product/making-winter-retreat-february-2017 in a tiny little village in Cambridgeshire fens called Reach. I was headed to a creative weekend retreat in a small medieval village at the edge of the Fens to quote Emma’s blog: The aim is to use seasonal creativity, good food, good company and cosiness […]
Days 20 – 25 #savouringjanuary2017
Day 20 of #savouringjanuary2017 with @gabrielletreanor *Listen*..I love Audio books, the spoken voice, and cannot listen to music for any length of time.I am a huge reader but can’t read and work, cook, iron, drive, et al, at the same time.When doing my A-levels I discovered talking books, audio books and have been addicted ever […]
