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I thought you should know that I am out of my winter hibernation early and I have taken up jogging to sweep away the cobwebs and the excess fat gained from the Christmas booze and chocs! So full of energy I am, with plans for new projects and with some already completed. But more of…
Last weekend I took my mosaic “Bella’s Secret” to the submission day for the Bath Society of Artists summer exhibition. I imagine it is a similar set up to the RA exhibition in London except there was not a mile long queue outside the doors! I had taken the park and ride bus and had…
There seem to be many ways to spell this Islamic method of making tiles, but perhaps it is correctly spelt zillij. Having researched it a bit more, I was fascinated to find out that once the biscuit fired tiles are cut into shapes , glazed and put together as whole geometric tiles, it doesn’t end there!…
There will now be a short interval from the Sweat and Tears Olympic project while I bring you Ammerdown 2011! I am blessed once again to have wonderful students making it a great weekend! We pulled out all the stops this weekend and made mosaics for outdoor as well as indoor, and I demonstrated the indirect…
The Midnight Star Lings (The Birds Who Bring Stars) It’s lovely to watch the starlings return this year. They gather on the fields and the farmyards to feed, then fly off together to roost in the reeds down on the levels. If I’m lucky I see a murmuration at sunset when I’m at the Avalon…
I have joined forces with Somerset Crafts members in their gallery at Westhay (what used to be the Peat Moors Centre) on the levels near Glastonbury. This is the website www.somersetcrafts.com . Like myself most of the members there are also members of the Somerset Guild of Craftsmen. If you are in the area then…