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January blobs of yellow

Hello, well here we are 2021 and it's good to be back here posting again.  Today is about making a fresh start and finding I needed a refresher in both photo processing and website editing.  After a...

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Cornwall colours and textures

We are almost done with February and I'm so glad to see the back of it.  Apart from one or two days it's been nothing but rain, hailstones, storms and news of Coronavirus spreading quickly round our...

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February hearts

January gently passed.In a tiny corner of my rented apartment I opened up a box of hearts and spread out with some carefully considered work I have yet to share.  I enjoyed the feel of the fabrics...

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gentle January

Just a quick post with a short announcement - that my online shop will open again on Saturday 1 February 2020.  I hope January will be a quiet peaceful one while I gather my thoughts and get...

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the rain it raineth every day ...

It's a grey rainy day in Cornwall.  Very heavy rain and rather blustery as well.  I do love the weather here in this exposed part of the far south west.  It's always very dramatic and very beautiful.I...

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a fresh desire to work again

It's been such a long time since I've published anything anywhere, I was truly starting to wonder if I would ever write or post again.  The hardest thing, when you've been away so long, is how to start...

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Snowed in

Well, that was an interesting week with the weather!The "Beast from the East" meets "Storm Emma".  Siberian snow and 60mph winds meant we had a good 8 to 12 inches of snow in places with deeper drifts....

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reassemble and squares/rectangles

These are my collages for the prompts of "reassemble" (cutting an image into squares then turning the pieces and rearranging them) and "squares and rectangles"reassembleI used a piece of craft paper...

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image pairings and strips

These are my collages for the prompts of "image pairings" (cutting an image in half and working the two sides into two very distinctive new themed collages) and "strips"the green beak of some birdI...

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the weekly collage project

It's been a few weeks since I last posted something here. I've got a little bit behind with sharing work online just recently although I have been keeping up quite well with making weekly collages for...

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black and white with a charge of colour

This week I am sharing two weeks' worth of collages for the project I am doing with my sister Evelyn, following the prompts from Randel Plowman's book The Collage Workbook.  My first two collages are...

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white on white

Week 2 of the collage project and I have just the one collage to share this week for the theme of WHITE.  Lots of layers though, exploring tones of white on white ...My collage is 5 x 5 inches on heavy...

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Taking things slowly ...

A new year, a new start and I am very pleased to be back posting here on my page again.  This year is all about having fun and being happy.  Creating beautiful things and exploring new ways of working...

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away for a while ...

A collection of memories from summer days, time spent in St. Ives, Mousehole and earlier workings.How quickly life can change and not always for the better.  In my last post I briefly mentioned my...

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autumn on the beach

Today is the first day of October and the first day in a new phase of my life.  This sounds profound I know but there have been a lot of things happen in my life over the last few weeks and, indeed,...

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St. Ives Textiles show

a week to go and much to do ...9 - 16 September 2017St. Ives Textiles - Kernow InspirationsPorthmeor Studios, Back Road West, St. IvesI will be there on the 11th and 16th September - hope to see you there

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Surface Treatment Workshop - weeks 20, 21 and 22 - mini landscapes

Quite a few weeks ago now I began creating some painted backgrounds and collages for experiments with glazing mediums for week 20 of the Surface Treatment Workshop.  I shared these backgrounds in my...

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a hello from Cornwall

Just popping by to say hello.  I'll be catching up here in a couple of days.  A family visit followed by a mild recurrence of my illness (not connected lol) have had a slight impact on what I've been...

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busy ... mizzly

We have a misty mizzly day in Cornwall today.  Heavy rain was forecast but it's brighter than suggested.  It wouldn't take that much for the sun to break through the thick white cloud cover.I find...

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St. Ives Textiles annual exhibition 2017

I am pleased to be taking part in the third annual textile exhibition in St. Ives.  It takes place during the first week of the St. Ives September Festival and will be held at Porthmeor Studios on the...

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