Great Welcome at The Morpeth Chantry
A BLOGGING FIRST & A GREAT WELCOME AT THE MORPETH CHANTRY ‘Its your turn to blog’, super-blogger Carol informs me over breakfast. Crikey, I have never blogged anything about anything! Probably best...
View ArticleI’m Teaching Myself New Tricks – Part 1
I’ve Been Teaching Myself New Tricks I’ve been teaching myself a few new tricks … weeeell, not so much new. Rather, a bringing together of existing skills in monotype and collagraph. These tricks may...
View ArticlePrint & Press Exhibition – 2 weeks to go.
Print & Press Exhibition As some of you may know, over the last few months, I’ve been organizing an exhibition, Print & Press. The exhibition showcases not just my own recent work, but also...
View Article2019 here I come – Starting my printmaking year
2019 Here I Come! Starting my printmaking year as I mean to go on. It’s already the end of the first week of 2019. Is it just me or does each year fly by faster and faster all the time? It’s been a...
View ArticleArt For Food Studio Clearance Sale
Art For Food Studio Clearance Sale One of the first events I have planned for this year is a studio clearance sale on Sunday, the 3rd of February 2019 between 11am and 3pm. I’m not particularly unusual...
View ArticleAn Insight into My Work Process
WANT AN INSIGHT INTO MY WORK PROCESS THAT LIES BEHIND THE MAKING OF MY PRINTS? It is longer than you think. There are various stages: Thinking time Sometimes many months, while I mull over an idea....
View ArticleFuture Plans for Workshops
Future Plans for Workshops This year his nibs and I have been consolidating the gains we’ve made – we’ve come a long way in the last three years. This spring, alongside getting ready for exhibitions...
View ArticleA PRINTMAKING HOLIDAY ANYONE?
A PRINTMAKING HOLIDAY ANYONE? For some time now I’ve been looking out for an opportunity to hold a workshop somewhere inspirational away from my studio. The search continues. Somewhere in the Hebrides...
View ArticleRemedy for a Body Under Pressure
I bought a chair yesterday … not just any old chair either! ‘What’s so special about this chair?’, I hear you say. Arthritis and spondylosis – I have both these conditions in my lower lumbar. Long...
View ArticleFuture Proofing My Studio
I’m currently in the process of future proofing my studio. That is to say, as someone who has inherited her parents genetic predisposition towards arthritis, I’m taking a number of steps to ensure I...
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