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I love a storm called Doris!
a bracing walk around Mousehole harbour this morningwith storm Doris sending waves crashing over the pier wallsit was super spectacular and sure blew a few "cobwebs" away
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texture in art
I've been thinking about texture in art and textilesand why I think it's important for texture to be an intrinsic part of my work rusty peeling paint on a St. Ives boatpersonally, I am drawn to texture...
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happy valentine's day 2017
today we have a gorgeous day filled with blue sky and the promise of springmy love and I are heading over to the beach at Long Rock and Marazionto look for pebbles, seaweed and beach stringI hope your...
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a perfect afternoon
yesterday ...a beautiful afternoon on the beach at Marazionin search of pebbles, seaweed and bits of beach stringnature throws the colours together perfectly ...and the seaweed has amazing colours and...
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colours of the season and the tides of the sea
a fab day on Friday visiting some of my favourite places locally ...at Godrevy ... the light is always amazingthis gorgeous rugged coastline and beautiful white sand beach(owned by The National Trust)...
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Surface Treatment Workshop - week 3
a few weeks ago my sister and I decided to work our way through the promptscovered in the book "The Surface Treatment Workshop"and already we are on week 3 which explores using aluminium foil ... the...
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the mystery of indigo moons ...
back in November 2016 I attended a workshop on indigo dyeingwith maker Sarah Johnson at The Exchange Gallery in Penzancealongside my dear friends (Jo McIntosh and Sharon McSwiney)before we got going...
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paper pieces
do you love how collections of things just slide across your desk?I like the randomnessand yet there is a persistent thread in everything ...(I think I should have called the last post "sea of blue")
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Surface Treatment Workshop - week 4
this week's samples for The Surface Treatment Workshopare the results of experiments with masking tapemany of the suggestions included using the tape as a resist for mark makingby painting over the...
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sticky stuff ...
after struggling with the sticky stuff for last Wednesday's masking tape samplesI was encouraged to try again thanks to the lovely comments and suggestionsof my readers, in particular Mary Anne and...
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March winds
"it was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows coldwhen it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade"Charles Dickens ~ Great Expectationsthat summed up the weather in...
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Stitch St. Ives
as our crackle paste samples are taking rather a while to develop crackly textureswe (my sister and I) have carried our weekly workshop over for another weekto enable some serious cracks to appear on...
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winter into spring
rainthere are holes in the skywhere the rain gets inbut they're ever so smallthat's why rain is thin- Spike Milligan -Mounts baywith texture created by my talented sister Evelynafter two days of fog...
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end of winter textiles and paintings
this week began with some most welcome sunshinea few hours in the garden weeding and pruning the hydrangeasand picking spring flowers for pressingI love moments amongst the flowers in my gardenthe...
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Surface Treatment Workshop - week 5
it's been a busy week and I'm few days late posting this week's samplesbut I've had a lot of fun with the crackle medium and crackle pasteand it was a real learning curve with mixed results and...
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Surface Treatment Workshop - week 6
it's been a misty mizzly week in Mousehole with not much colour to cheerand I've been stuck indoors all week with a really bad coldso it was good to get out today for a short walkand discover some...
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first day of spring and Sunday snippets
the clocks sprung forward last nightit has felt like the first day of spring ... chilly ... but sunny, bright and inspiringmy studio looks out over the garden at the back of the houseand I sit looking...
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hygge
I didn't get my surface treatment samples finished for today ...it was dark ... it rained big blobs on the window panesI baked ... and sat reading in front of the wood burnerand now I'm going to cook...
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Surface Treatment Workshop - week 8
yesterday I attended a cyanotype printing workshop at The Exchange Gallery in Penzanceit was inspired by the work in Joy Gregory's exhibition called "Lost Languages and other voices"incorporating...
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golden moons with indigo and umber clouds
it was such a beautiful moon last nightthe brightest full moon I've seen for a whilewith occasional midnight blue and umber clouds passing over and shrouding it in mistit was mesmerising and I watched...
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