Workshop
A Perfect Oval Form
My eye follows the curve round to the large end fitting perfectly the hollow in my palm, arcing up again to the smaller top oval. The matt surface draws in the light and makes soft shadows. An egg shape, an egg, a perfect egg. Ah, if I could sculpt so perfectly. You can probably […]
In the Workshop today
Apart from cloud watching that is – I actually worked pretty hard today, and now in the warmth, and full of supper, feel happily tired.
My very own climate change
It is something I’ve never experienced before – indoor clouds! Well, inside sort of – actually in my workshop. The hard frost meant iced up locks and bitter working conditions today, and I might have given in, except for the strong sun, which stung my already ‘frost-burned’ face. As soon as it was high […]
Cabinet of Curiosities
Sometimes as I garden, little treasures pop up out of the soil, or occasionally they are washed down in the beck and stand out because of pattern, colour or shine. These are recent aquisitions, and will join my other rows of comforting curiosities. I have quite a collection now and I love to […]
Knotty Brambles
I’ve spent time this weekend clearing brambles. The area where they grow, down the side of my workshop, used to be a hedgerow, there are ash tree stumps and it is a place I tend to leave to grow naturally wild. The geese have made nests and laid eggs there in the thick […]
Birdsong and Breakfast
The very first things for me in the New Year are birdsong and breakfast with my geese. Happy New Year to all – hope your 2014 started as happily as mine!
A Train of Jackdaws
This post might have been called Jackdaw-ation – a sort of mix between murmuration, but this time of Jackdaws, and it almost says adoration too – but instead we have a Train (the name for a group of Jackdaws). On these stormy, blustery days we’ve been having, the Jackdaws seem to gather for a […]
Lichen and Butterfly wings
It hasn’t been a surprise lately that the ground around the old Sycamore tree has been littered with small branches and twigs, as the wind has been punishingly strong. The messy scattering of strewn pieces are gnarled, twisted and covered in lichen. I’ve collected them up and put them in the woodshed. At this […]
Calm after the storm
We seem to have got away with it quite lightly here – though the tin roofs of the workshop were well rattled! Happily they stayed in place. Today by comparison is beautiful and I’m working outside on a piece I started some months ago – commissions, orders and my exhibition meant I had to […]
Can I sculpt the sky?
Sometimes all the conditions contrive to make the start to the day feel incredibly good. This is one such morning – frost, mist, and cloud burst through with a gold and copper sun. It made me stand still and look – feeling awe. This is the view from my workshop, if I take a […]