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Hooray!
My book is ready.
Full of lovely pictures of my mosaics, and drawings never seen!
It would make a good Christmas present!
Read about it and order from Blurb here!
Yesterday evening just before the sun went down I managed to close shop at Somerset Crafts down on the Avalon Marshes in Somerset in time to see thousands and thousands of starlings swooshing over the gallery and on down to the heath. This happens every year at about this time and we have many visitors…
Recently I moved back to Devon after 21 years in Somerset. It’s taking a while to get used to living in a town here and being surrounded by houses instead of living out in the sticks and being surrounded by fields. However I have the sea and Dartmoor close by, and I can see “Rippon…
I take so many photos of the landscape around me, usually they serve as reference points for work that takes me somewhere beyond that which is seen. This time I decided to make a couple of pieces that are purely representational. At least more or less ! The first inspired by this dramatic sunset last…
A Prophetic Tree (part 3) If you read the last 2 posts you will have some insight into the sculpture I am making for an exhibition at Delamore House, Devon in May. In response to the very sad and destructive fungal disease causing ash dieback, I have now finished my “remembrance” sculpture/seat. It retraces the path…
I spent several hours trying to decide what tile to use for the background of my sculpture. I originally thought I might use transparent glass onto coloured adhesive and the colour would change gradually from a dark brown skin tone to a pale pink. But I scrapped that idea when I thought about how it…
As luck would have it I got a message from a friend from Somerset Crafts who saw my post on facebook asking if anyone could recommend a courier for my 150kg sculpture. He is a stone sculptor so he has a heavy duty trolley and used to lifting heavy lumps of stone. Not only that…
