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What do the four seasons, four birds, and a key have in common?
This school was a joy to work with. A small primary school of just over 100 pupils, every child was able to take part in making it. I was sent lots of drawings from the children to use for a design and spent a day sketching possibilities and a final cartoon. I spent a couple…
Winter Holiday Wishes
The snow is deep on the fields, and the car is stuck in a ditch about a quarter of a mile down the road. I haven’t done much work in the last few days, and succumbed to the cleaning and sledging (guess which I would rather do!) Happy Winter Celebrations !
Wake Up It’s Morning!!
I sleep like a bear in the winter holidays, but this morning my partner woke me at 8am to look at the sunrise. Bleary eyed I bumbled about, threw open some windows to the biting cold and took some pictures. Most of the photos are blurred (wouldn’t yours be if you were barely conscious?) This…
Sweat and Tears – part 2
The next stage of the Olympic sculpture was to organise and order tiles. I want the sweat and the tears to look as if they are on skin, so the tiles I choose are very like water glass tiles – they have a coloured base with thick clear glass on the top, and represent the…
Birds and Sport
A few weeks ago I was contacted by a gallery in Devon, and asked if I had any work I would like to display in their gallery. It is a new craft gallery at the Dartington Cider Press Centre, in Devon, which houses several designer shops and cafes but it is best known for its…
Mosaics in schools
I have been making mosaics with schools for 15 years, in fact the first ever mosaic I made was a 2 metre x 2metre mosaic on an outside wall of a school with the kids. Generally the mosaics are designed by the kids, I just facilitate the project, by putting their designs into a format,…

