Needlesmiths at the Kirstie Allsopp Handmade Fair at Ragley Hall, Warwickshire
The marquees basking in the sun in the beautiful grounds of Ragley Hall. Edited to add: I started this a couple of weeks ago but it’s taken aaages to actually complete & postIt seems strange to think that, as I type, I had just finished packing up my stand at the Kirstie Allsopp Handmade Fair […]
“Fifty shades of Light”
My new exhibition at the Dochas Gallery in Lochgilphead opened last night. At one point I really didn’t think I was going to get them all finished but managed it by the skin of my teeth! After a little over 3 hours of taping frames, at 10pm on Friday night all the shades were still […]
Where did a year go??!
I was full of good intentions this time last year, then they fell out of my ears and I got distracted and busy. People went in and out of hospital, workshops and courses were worried about, then got booked up, were attended by lots of happy people and lampshades got made, LOTS of lampshades were […]
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 […]
