Looking back over the last couple of weeks and I feel that I have achieved quite bit – there are days when nothing much seems to happen but really I should take comfort that there are some lovely things to…
A Printmakers Archive – 31st July 2018
When ever I take a stand at an event I always take some Collagraph Printing Plates for people to see and handle. There is always a positive response and often I give them away – I love to see people…
A Spectrum of Colour – 23rd July 2018
I continued my exploration of a slightly new colour scheme – it was a hot toil of work as I suspect I spend more time drying the papers with a hairdryer than I do applying paint! I finished the session…
Colour! – 9th July 2018
Somehow it seems strange to be thinking about colour when all around me in the garden and the fields it is all washed out – shades of straw and pale green – it will rain soon! I have been…
Coming Together – 25th June 2018
I am so pleased that I undertook several sessions of printing as the weather has turned very hot and I doubt that my success of last week could be repeated. So it’s great to think that the prints are drying…
In the End – 15th June 2018
In the End I got there. My problems with printing have now been resolved – whilst it was frustrating that last weeks plates hadn’t worked it was more that I didn’t know why. I put it down to the warm…
If at First….6th June 2018
When I posted last time I had hoped to make progress and I suppose I have but my first plate designed around woven silk and what happens beyond the edges wasn’t good enough – it didn’t capture the spirit of…
Production and Display – 28th May 2018
These last two weeks have been busy, so whats new!! I completed the three books inspired by silk and a copy of each went with me to ‘Turn the Page’ – an artists’…
Busy, Busy – 14th May 2018
I’m sure that we all say that we are busy, but it has felt even more so for me following our holiday, the garden had grown and grown and I took part in the Saltaire Makers fair which was over…
Gallivanting – A favourite Word – 1st May 2018
I have now completed my Dictionaries of Cotton, Silk and Lace and they are going to my next event at Saltaire 5th, 6th and 7th May. This World Heritage Site, just a few miles away hosts a huge creative event…