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Sharing food stories & making unusual artist books

A workshop at my studio in the beautiful Brecon Beacons with artists’ book maker Lin Charlston. Exploring through drawing, making and eating we will make our own individual and unusual books that chart some of the stories about food, what … Continue reading

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Working through lockdown to find a way out

This is work begun before the pandemic but then thwarted by restrictions of lockdown and social distancing. Then the pandemic that unexpectedly developed it . These are china clay hands holding one of the hundreds of herb bags made by … Continue reading

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Artists responding……

So responding to a call out for artists responding to under reported issues concerning the world we live in I sent images and words to https://www.artistsrespondingto.co.uk/zine Looking at others accepted for issue 7, I felt the need to celebrate visual … Continue reading

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96 sheet billboard

Exploring housing, homes and environment. I fiddle around with numbers of sheets forming a 96 sheet billboard trying to scale it into a manageable form and discover something new Clearing out old drawings, made by hand on a parallel motion … Continue reading

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trees and how I fell in love

Where to go? where to find some calm understanding? the confusion of teenage life! But the oak tree knew. Knew what? I am unsure but certainly something. It s rough bark, the uncomfortable roots that I wriggled my bottom into. … Continue reading

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Climate of care and sometimes the lack of it

I am sliding around, wrestling with the slippery subject of care, or the lack of it. Right now it is about the issue of homelessness. I have been trying to understand how it is that over 450,000 homes are standing … Continue reading

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Thinking about the words we use

Social distancing Self isolation shielding lockdown I cannot work out which is more disturbing – I have a morbid dread of being wrongfully imprisoned, shut in by walls, cut off from human contact, warmth of love, of quiet fresh air … Continue reading

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Riches found while having a clear out

I am clearing things out of my studio. Preparing for something, perhaps new work, perhaps a change or just because it might clear my mind. I have files of things, images, pieces of text that inspired me or in some … Continue reading

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Visibility

Working with colleagues ‘ Sparrows’, Kirsty Claxton and Elizabeth Adeline, we have begun an exploration of the place of photos in creating work.  Tied to the images we created a list of words between us and then focused in on … Continue reading

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So where in the order of life does Covid 19 belong?

Forms of life get very small, I am unsure but I think that viruses are the smallest. Strands of ribonuclei acid , RNA,wrapped up in a coat to protect themselves when not happily reproducing in some other living organism. So … Continue reading

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