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October Fair
There’s a colourful, bold image on the front of the Affordable Art Fair’s brochure – a vivid pink lady with hoops and balls. It made me smile, it was a craze when I was young and I remember trying to be good at keeping the hoop up around my middle, wiggling and swaying to […]
I wrote a poem
Because it is Poetry Day – the theme is Light – and I love light on stone. It falls in shadows and helps me see. Highlight delves, dances and sets free the line, curve, rhythm and hollow, guiding my pressing deeper – I follow hammer hopeful, my favourite chisel and me. I’ve really enjoyed my few weeks […]
Badger with gilded paws
Today – 6th October, 2015 is National Badger Day, so I’m thinking about badgers a lot, and the work of the Badger Trust the Yorkshire Wildlife Trust and locally Ryedale Wildlife Rehabilitation. Though I’ve carved a number of badgers, there’s a sculpture I love by Beth Carter called Badger with gilded paws and here it […]
National Poetry Day
National Poetry Day 2015 is on Thursday, October 8th. Each year, the Scottish Poetry Library produces a set of poem postcards for National Poetry day. They’re distributed to participating public libraries and schools and other venues around Scotland, for readers to pick up free. Earlier in the year I was contacted and […]
Autumn Pickings
As Autumn colours emerge I’m tempted by the season’s offerings and collect snippets from the garden. Berries, seed-heads, golden leaves intense and bright. I’m trying out my single-stem stone vases (also in autumnal hues) to show off my pickings.
NGS Open Garden
Looking out at the garden I see a bit of a wilderness – it is neglect – untouched by my gardening hands for a while, yet it is busy doing its thing very happily without me. A wild rose has self-seeded and is robustly scampering over everything so beautifully with pink delicate flowers that I’m […]
Noah’s Flower Festival, Lastingham
Mr and Mrs Noah – my contribution to Noah’s Flower Festival in Lastingham – they’re now in place to steer the ark and keep an eye on those giraffes, and all the other animals.
Meadow White
Meadow white emerges in billowing ball-shaped purity, fibrous inflorescence – fertilizing thought.
Giraffes in Lastingham
What a fabulous sight, suddenly they appeared, lifting their heads up out of the top of the church tower! They’re part of Noah’s Flower Festival in the village from the 10th to 19th July 2015 at St Mary’s Church, Lastingham. There’s an Ark, Animals, Flowers, Well Dressing and Music. On some evenings there are talks […]
Just scratching the surface
On Wednesday morning I had a bit of a dash over to Thirsk to Rural Arts where I had booked myself onto a Drypoint printmaking course tutored by Andy Dalton. The drypoint process – a printmaking technique in which an image is incised into a plate with a hard-pointed ‘needle’ of sharp metal – was explained. An […]