Origin

Last night I was in London to visit the Craft Council's Origin event. It was a really beautiful evening and the sun was setting as I walked from the station over Waterloo Bridge towards Somerset House.


Origin was better than I remembered it from past years. There were a lot of woven textiles, my personal favourites being the absolutely gorgeous blankets by Eleanor Pritchard and scarves by Bonita Ahuja under the name Taran Taaran. Some other beautiful things I wanted to mention are the handmade children's clothes by Smith and Coates, the amazing wood compositions by Wycliffe Stutchbury and the stunning ceramics by Andrew Wicks. I would like to own work by all of them!

Somerset House really is a wonderful setting for Origin. The structure built for the event stands in a courtyard just off The Strand.


Maybe, just maybe....one year I won't be there as a visitor x

Making progress...

I've had a busy few weeks, weaving, taking new photographs and trying to get over a massive cold..


I've been updating my website with the new pictures of my scarves being worn. I'm really pleased with them. Big thank you to my wonderful team and beautiful model. Here are some of my favourites...

New Work

I am finally on the way to producing some of my own work. My scarves are going to be appearing in a few galleries this autumn/winter so I've got a lot of weaving to do. Yarn has arrived, labels done and I've got a large warp which I am currently putting on my loom.

Art In Clay

This weekend we visited Art in Clay at Hatfield House. Very inspirational and particularly interesting to see how people set out their stands and display their work. Lots to think about for when I do a craft fair. It was a pretty hot day, making a change from all the rain we've had. Some of us even got to throw a pot.....


Belinda at gretchenmist contacted me recently to say she had featured my work on her blog. Belinda is an artist who produces beautifully simple and delicate abstract paintings as well as collages, prints and jewellery. Below is one of my favourite pieces from her Etsy shop. I shall definitely be following her blog from now on!

I'm Back

Been very busy lately doing weaving projects for Salt, so have not had time to work on my own ideas or even blog. Also over the last month, I've been to a networking event, New Designers and the Henry Moore foundation....



These are photos from the networking event at The James Hockey and Foyer Galleries at UCA in Farnham. The event accompanied the opening of two exhibitions, John Allen: The Forbidden Kingdom and Wu Sima: Tibet in Watercolour. It was a great evening and I was very lucky to have a little stand to show my work because my wonderful Lee works at the gallery.


The Henry Moore foundation is situated in a small village in East Hertfordshire where Henry Moore lived for 40 years. Visitors can look round his fascinating house, which is largely as it would have been when Moore was still working. The majority of the house was used to display a large art and antique collection and give a real insight into Moore's Life. He and his wife had a very eclectic mix of styles and taste which I love as they obviously treasured everything they displayed and didn't care about rules that say things should match. Also very evident is how much his collections inspired his own work. A very interesting day indeed, particularly visiting the studios, where very knowledgable employees of the foundation can tell you anything you might want to know about the artist. The exhibition of Moore's printed textiles and tapestries were of particular interest to me. The grounds around the house are home to around 24 of Henry Moore's large sculptures.

SOLD!

I am delighted to have sold my first 4 items this weekend in my Etsy shop. It really was quite exciting. I am also quite amazed at how clever paypal is and how simple the whole process was despite having to deal with 3 different currencies! The buyer is from Belgium, meaning that the payment came from her in euros, through Etsy in dollars and then to me into pounds. I like this alot.

I also had a message from the lovely Melissa of California Blue who has now featured me on her blog! Melissa has written a great little piece about my work, I love how she has described it.

Above is some of Melissa's beautiful jewellery available in her Etsy shop. It is simple and elegant, (just how I like my jewellery) and as Melissa said, portrays a "certain California style".

Thank you :)

Wow, I am totally surprised this morning. How wonderful to wake up to such lovely comments! I want to say thank you to everyone for following me and commenting. Plus I am in my first Etsy treasury, so thank you to Adam for that! A pretty good 24 hours overall :)

These flowers have started growing outside our front door, I have no idea what they are but I really like them. Actually maybe they are just a weed, there are loads of them...anybody know?