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Surface Treatment Workshop - week 17
For week 17 we explored printing with sponges, rollers and foam. Quite simple patterns in my favourite Cornish colours, particularly inspired, perhaps, by the way the weather changes the colours of...
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Surface Treatment Workshop - week 18
I'm really enjoying this weekly project, exploring techniques and products that are both familiar and unfamiliar. When it's a technique that I am used to I try to take it in a different direction,...
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Eco printing and dyeing with leaves on silk
I spent a wonderful afternoon among friends yesterday eco dyeing with Caro Beech at Hayle. I have "dabbled" with this myself a teensy bit but I found yesterday's workshop invaluable and ... I am...
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Surface Treatment Workshop - week 19
This week's workshop was about embossing. I tried out Liquitex gloss gel, Golden molding paste and my favourite Daler texture paste. It's always interesting to see how the products perform and...
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the joy of colour
Time for a gathering of recent work, thoughts and doings from the last few weeks. I may be a few days late with week 20 of The Surface Treatment Workshop but I have begun working on the backgrounds....
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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